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BioHeritage Challenge
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchBiological Heritage National Science Challenge Our Mission Reverse the decline of New Zealand's biological heritage, through a national partnership to deliver a step change in research innovation, globally leading technologies and community and sector action. New Zealand’s Biological Heritage National Science Challenge was allocated $63.7 million of this...Created 27 April 2025 • Updated 5 May 2025 -
Pathways to Ecosystem Regeneration
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchTranche 2: Strategic Objective 6 Working with communities to understand important social and ecological linkages for managing, protecting and restoring land and water ecosystems. Our teams are aiming to quantify social-ecological linkages for use in managing, protecting and restoring land and water ecosystems. Many thousands of New Zealanders put in time...Created 27 April 2025 • Updated 27 April 2025 -
Managing Threats to Freshwater Taonga Invertebrates
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchTranche1: Project 3.5 Management of non-native fish such as catfish may be the answer to safeguarding freshwater taonga (treasured) species in our waterways, researchers have found. This project focused on protecting the taonga species kākahi (freshwater mussels) and kōura (crayfish) from pest fish and invasive macrophytes, through a combination of...Created 27 April 2025 • Updated 27 April 2025 -
eDNA Virtual Hub
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchEnvironmental DNA, or eDNA, refers to the DNA that is shed or excreted from biological organisms, for example as skin, hair, faeces or urine. This powerful new technology is transforming how biological diversity is measured. A tranche 1 BioHeritage research team led out of the University of Auckland have developed Aotearoas first national biodiversity...Created 29 July 2021 • Updated 27 April 2025 -
Biodiversity Instruments
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchDavid Hall & Sam Lindsay (2021) Scaling Climate Finance : Biodiversity Instruments. Concept Paper. Auckland : Mohio Research. A Concept Paper which identifies unrealised opportunities for increasing investment into projects and activities that preserve, support and expand Aotearoa New Zealand's unique biological heritage. Redirecting finance and...Created 29 July 2021 • Updated 27 April 2025 -
Combating Pathogen Risk Using Genomics
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchTranche 1: Project 1.2 To protect our native and production ecosystems from the invasion of new pathogens, rapid assessments of the potential impact of identified and unidentified pathogens are critical. This BioHeritage Challenge project, led by Dr Bevan Weir of Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research, is developing a predictive model using comparative...Created 27 April 2025 • Updated 27 April 2025 -
Oranga - Wellbeing
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchTe mauri o te rakau, te mauri o te ngahere, te mauri o te tangata: Mātauranga Māori based solutions for kauri dieback and myrtle rust Māori worldviews are essential for establishing priorities and allowing the co-production of knowledge in response to threats to taonga rākau (treasured tree) species. In the fight against kauri dieback and myrtle rust,...Created 27 April 2025 • Updated 27 April 2025 -
Integrated Surveillance
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchSurveillance has repeatedly emerged as a critical research priority in the management of myrtle rust and kauri dieback. To date, data on the presence and severity of these diseases has been collected by many different organisations using a range of methodologies. Iwi and hapū are urgently seeking definitive answers about the presence/absence of these...Created 27 April 2025 • Updated 27 April 2025 -
Customary Approaches to Ecosystem Resilience
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchTranche1: Project 3.2 Researchers are investigating how the application of kaitiakitanga (Māori guardianship) approaches contribute to reversing the decline of New Zealand’s biodiversity, and support the relationship of Māori communities with their environments. This research responded to a 2011 report by the Waitangi Tribunal, Ko Aotearoa Tēnei – Report...Created 27 April 2025 • Updated 27 April 2025 -
Our Way of Working
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchA paper and report into the different way the BioHeritage National Science Challenge sought to operate. Unless otherwise specified under individual resources (esp papers), this work is shared CC-BY.Created 27 April 2025 • Updated 27 April 2025 -
Aligned Funding 2015-24 combined
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchSummary visualisations from research aligned to the Biological Heritage NSC by Challenge parties from 2015 to 2024.Created 27 April 2025 • Updated 27 April 2025 -
A refined transcriptome dataset for the NZ brushtail possum
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchThe research team from the High-tech solutions to invasive mammal pests (BioHeritage project 2.3) have published the refined transcriptome of the Brushtail Possum as described in the 2019 Data in Brief paper by White, Trought and Hopkins entitled 'The mixed liver and heart transcriptome dataset of the New Zealand brushtail possum, Trichosurus vulpecula'...Created 29 July 2021 • Updated 27 April 2025 -
State-of-the-Art Surveillance
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchTranche 2: Strategic Objective 4 Automation can improve biosecurity surveillance systems Surveillance is an essential part of protecting New Zealand’s economic assets and natural taonga from damaging exotic organisms. Our government currently spends over $125 million a year on monitoring for biological threats. It’s an expensive process because it...Created 27 April 2025 • Updated 27 April 2025 -
Predicting and Preventing Ecosystem Decline
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchTranche 1: Project 3.1 Researchers are developing a framework to help predict and prevent the approach of rapid, harmful and difficult-to-reverse changes in ecosystems. In this project, researchers aimed to reverse degradation across a range of ecosystems and nudge these systems towards a healthy, self-reinforcing state. Once an ecosystem reaches a...Created 27 April 2025 • Updated 27 April 2025 -
A Tika Transition to a Flourishing Aotearoa
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchThis policy guidance describes and outlines a tika transition to a flourishing Aotearoa including the core concepts and toolbox to help guide tika and enduring decision-making.Created 27 April 2025 • Updated 27 April 2025 -
Crazy & Ambitious Think Tank
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchTranche 2 - Pou Stimulating new ideas, approaches or syntheses that are needed to improve our biological heritage over the longer-term. The BioHeritage National Science Challenge has been funded for 10 years, but reversing the decline of our biological heritage will take much, much longer than this. This ‘horizon’ work will complement the shorter-term...Created 27 April 2025 • Updated 27 April 2025 -
Mobile Apps to Keep New Zealand Safe
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchTranche 1: Project 2.5 Mobile technologies are being developed to help New Zealanders report suspected biosecurity threats, with the first step being a bilingual app that helps identify myrtle rust infections. As part of this BioHeritage Challenge project, Dr Stephen Pawson from the University of Canterbury (previously Scion) led a team that has developed...Created 27 April 2025 • Updated 27 April 2025 -
Community Predator Control Group Survey
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchIn this study, we used a nationwide survey and focus groups to understand how community predator control groups choose their methods and operations, particularly those involved in the Predator Free 2050 movement. Survey data is available here as an excel spreadsheet with any identifiable information redacted. Questions addressed the type/s of predator...Created 27 April 2025 • Updated 27 April 2025 -
Collaboration Agreement
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchCollaboration agreement between Challenge Parties. The Cawthron Institue was added by deed of accession in April 2018. Note - in this copy signatures have been obscured for securityCreated 29 July 2021 • Updated 27 April 2025 -
Conservation & Restoration
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchIt’s a huge challenge to conserve and restore kauri and native plants vulnerable to myrtle rust for future generations. It requires knowledge of multiple stages of the life histories of the plants, which, in the case of kauri, pōhutukawa, and some species of rātā, needs to take account of them living potentially for many hundreds of years and regenerating...Created 27 April 2025 • Updated 27 April 2025