Meerkat Eco-Warrior Badge

Badge requirements

Do TWO of the following:

Plants
- Be able to identify the leaf, stem, flower and roots of a plant:
- Know what a plant needs to survive.
- What do we call an animal that only eats plants? Name three.
Birds and animals
- Observe a bird or an animal that comes into your garden, local park or a nearby nature area.
- Tell other Meerkats what you have observed about:
  - What it looks like
  - Where you see it (sky/in a tree/on the ground)
  - What actions it performs (flying/hoping/scratching in soil/singing/feeding/etc)
  - If you observed it interacting with any other living creature.
Wild animals
- Find out about a wild animal that you like. It could be one from South Africa or not, and it could be alive or extinct.
- Tell your Burrow about your animal:
  - What the animal looks like with a picture you found or drew
  - How big it is (smaller than me/ bigger than a car, etc),
  - Where and when it lives,
  - What it eats and anything that you find interesting about it.