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Farming & Nature Conservation
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchTranche 1: Project 3.3 Sheep and beef farms make up nearly 40% of Aotearoa’s landscape and play a vital role in our economy. At the same time, this land use is home to a quarter of all native vegetation and so acts as a refuge for many native plant and animal species, especially in the lowlands. More information can be found here:...Created 27 April 2025 • Updated 27 April 2025 -
Host, Pathogen & Environment
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchThis research theme is focusing on the ‘disease triangle’: host susceptibility, the pathogen and the right environment for disease expression. Plants and pathogens can both be influenced by a number of factors such as disturbance, topography, weather, soil type and pest control. These factors can, in turn, affect how the plant pathogens adapt to New...Created 27 April 2025 • Updated 27 April 2025 -
High-Tech Solutions To Invasive Mammal Pests
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchTranche 1: Project 2.3 This research team is helping to develop targeted, next-generation, socially acceptable and cost-effective new technologies to achieve landscape-scale freedom from rats, stoats and possums The ability to cost-effectively keep these pests that threaten our biodiversity at zero density will be transformational for Aotearoa New Zealand...Created 27 April 2025 • Updated 27 April 2025 -
Me Tū ā-Uru: An Action Plan for a Flourishing and Abundant Environment
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchThis report presents a vision for a healthier natural environment, and for healthier long-term human and environmental relationships.Created 27 April 2025 • Updated 27 April 2025 -
Risk Assessment & Ecosystem Impacts
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchWe need to understand kauri dieback and myrtle rust better if we want to protect our ngahere (forest). That’s why the goal of the Risk Assessment & Ecosystem Impacts team is to identify the effects of these diseases and management, as well as which species and ecosystems are most at risk. More detailed information will allow us to better prioritise...Created 27 April 2025 • Updated 27 April 2025 -
Stream mesocosm experiment investigating invertebrate community responses to...
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchIn this study, we used a stream channel experiment to test the effects of community type and disturbance type on invertebrate communities, with invertebrate drift measurements used as a diagnostic tool to assess community impacts. Three community types (undisturbed spring, flood-disturbed and agriculture-disturbed) were each established in a recirculating...Created 27 April 2025 • Updated 27 April 2025 -
Challenge Research Essentials
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchA Different Way of Doing Science The traditional science funding model, which takes the form of applying for competitive grants, is known to create research silos. Under these conditions, researchers and knowledge holders protect their ideas instead of sharing them, which leads to poor communication and duplication of work. Silo behaviour wastes time,...Created 27 April 2025 • Updated 27 April 2025 -
Making the Kāwanatanga Accountable for Te Tiriti: Possible Mechanisms for...
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchDiscussion paperCreated 27 April 2025 • Updated 27 April 2025 -
Molecular Technologies
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchExploring future pathways for protecting our taonga Technological innovation is racing ahead around the globe, but what does this mean for Aotearoa? Before we adopt any new technology we must ensure it is suitable for our lands, our native species and our people. This four-part research programme delves into different molecular technologies and what they...Created 27 April 2025 • Updated 27 April 2025 -
Rebuilding Healthy Rivers
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchTranche1: Project 3.4 Researchers are using freshwater systems as a model to test how degraded ecosystems can be resistant to disruptions – including those that aim to restore them. By investigating and understanding what attributes make freshwater ecosystems “unhealthy”, place-based trials can be designed to target undesired species. They can also be...Created 27 April 2025 • Updated 27 April 2025 -
Public Perceptions of New Pest Control Methods
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchTranche 1: Project 2.6 One of the nation’s largest surveys on public attitudes toward new pest control technologies has shown that most New Zealanders support the need for pest control. Carried out in 2017, the BioHeritage Challenge survey assessed the perceptions, beliefs and attitudes of 8,000 people, including about 1,000 Māori. Highlights The survey...Created 27 April 2025 • Updated 27 April 2025 -
Kauri Dieback Science Stocktake
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchA list of past and current research focused on biology, impacts and management of kauri dieback (Phytophthora agathidicida). Builds on work previously undertaken by the BioHeritage Challenge and MPI. Collated with assistance from DOC and MPI. This is a living document and we need your help to find those additional publications, research projects or...Created 29 July 2021 • Updated 27 April 2025 -
eDNA For Environmental Monitoring
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchTranche 1: Project 1.3 In a New Zealand first, researchers have developed a nationwide database to integrate and share eDNA data to allow biological diversity across our diverse landscapes to be assessed and compared. Overview The analysis of eDNA requires the extraction and identification of DNA directly from environmental samples such as soil or...Created 27 April 2025 • Updated 27 April 2025 -
Steps Towards Authentic Te Tiriti o Waitangi Relationships at a Local...
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchBriefing of the advice provided to The Review into the Future for Local Government regarding Te Tiriti o Waitangi relationships. In response to Review into the Future for Local Government Interim and Draft reports researchers from Me Tū ā-Uru working group and Bioheritage National Science Challenge have formed a: - A vision for authentic Te Tiriti...Created 27 April 2025 • Updated 27 April 2025 -
KA PŪ TE RUHA, KA HAO TE RANGATAHI
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchThis is a collection of Māori research intern stories for the Biological Heritage National Science Challenge. The Biological Heritage National Science Challenge has a comprehensive work programme featuring mātauranga Māori. Disclaimer: The views, opinions, conclusions and recommendations expressed in this document belong solely to the individual authors,...Created 27 April 2025 • Updated 27 April 2025 -
Control, Protect, Cure
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchThe myrtle rust and kauri dieback spaces desperately need a suite of fully integrated management tools and approaches to saving our ngahere (forest). To this end, Ngā Rākau Taketake is investing in research and related activities in the field of Tools and Technologies for Detection and Management. This team has used an extensive outreach process to...Created 27 April 2025 • Updated 27 April 2025 -
Mobilising for Action
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchWe all have a role to play in biodiversity conservation, especially when it comes to protecting taonga species from invasive pathogens. Whether we recognize it or not, our survival as a human species is dependent on the survival of te taiao (the environment), and we have a duty of care to retain its mana and mauri. But how are people connecting to te...Created 27 April 2025 • Updated 27 April 2025 -
Biotic interactions could control colonization success during stream restoration
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchData associated with paper in prep by Imogen Eglesfield, Angus McIntosh, Helen WarburtonCreated 27 April 2025 • Updated 27 April 2025 -
Kekewai as a stream restoration tool data
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchWithin streams, tolerant macroinvertebrates such as snails, worms and fly larvae, may inhibit colonisation of other macroinvertebrates like mayflies, stoneflies and caddisflies (EPT) through biotic interactions such as competitive dominance or priority effects. We evaluated whether top-down control by freshwater crayfish could disrupt dominance of...Created 27 April 2025 • Updated 27 April 2025 -
Whiria Ngā Aho Te Whāriki: Using litigation as a tool in the pursuit of...
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchThis Report has been developed as part of the New Zealand Biological Heritage National Science Challenge and is intended to contribute to the Adaptive Governance and Policy Strategic Outcome. The purpose of the Report is to provide guidance on novel legal arguments that could be used within the legal system to advance the recognition of rangatiratanga and...Created 27 April 2025 • Updated 27 April 2025