Letter to the Editor

 Today my class and I were writing letters to the editor of the Gisborne Herald. We were writing them because the river by our school is covered with blackberry bushes and it's the council's job to clear it up and they haven't been doing it. My school has been emailing them, calling them, andusing the Fix It app. But they never reply. Down below is my letter: 

At my school, Saint Marys gisborne, we have Taruheru awa next to our school. We are a green-gold enviro school and we do lots of planting native trees on the awa banks. But there isn’t any more room to plant more native trees because the council has stopped mowing down at the river, and there are blackberry bushes stretching from the river  up the banks near the fence line. We would like the council to cut the blackberry out and start mowing down there again. Then we can plant more native New Zealand trees,to provide shade over the river to encourage more little fresh water crayfish and other tiny creatures to start living there. I believe planting native trees will increase the amount of animals like native birds, fish, and any other native animals so that they can make homes. The birds can make nests in the trees, and the fish and other water creatures can live in the river. We are writing to the new zealand herald because the council have not been replying to our many emails.