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Hello my name is Tegan and I am a year 7 student at Pukekohe Intermediate School. I have been studying the Maui’s Dolphin for a while now. I have been researching information and I have come across some interesting facts about the decline of the Maui’s Dolphin population. I have written this letter to ask you to help us save the Maui’s Dolphins. I have been even more interested in this because I live not far away from where they live. Maui's Dolphins live on the West Coast of the North Island around Sunset Beach and Port Waikato. This is the closest habitat to me.

There are so many things we can do to stop Maui’s Dolphins from becoming extinct. We can put up signs where Maui’s live so Fishermen are warned that there is a rare Dolphin living in these waters, we can band certain nets set around their habitat. One of the main reasons Maui’s are getting killed is people on boats come too close to Maui’s and don’t turn their engines off and they get hit by the propellers, people also cut off their fishing lines into the water when their lines are tangelled and Maui’s Dolphins get caught in it. Plastic Bags are another issue of the killing of Maui’s Dolphins they get attracted to them and eat them, and then the Maui’s get sick and will likely die. We should put all litter in the bins and BAND PLASTIC BAGS.

Pukekohe Intermediate are going to make a mural about Maui’s Dolphins to show the public how rare and important Maui’s are to New Zealand (Maui’s are not found any where else in the world). You can Adopt a Dolphin to help save them it is just $30 and you give it a name for the year and get a Maui’s Dolphin soft toy. We don’t have very long there are approamitly 111 Maui’s left we have round about 30 years to stop them from getting extinct.

I hope that you put a lot of thought into what I have said and send something back.

Yours Sincerely

Tegan