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Ngā Pī Ka Rere
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchTranche 2 - Pou The future of our science system, and our country, depends on those who come after us. That’s why BioHeritage invested in the next generation. Ngā Pī Ka Rere early careers network was established in 2019 to ensure early career professionals had all the support they needed to flourish in their chosen careers. The group intentionally didn’t...Created 27 April 2025 • Updated 27 April 2025 -
Non-native invasive plants as a threat to biological heritage
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchInvasive, non-native plants (weeds) are a major driver of declines in biodiversity and also cause economic damage across different land uses. Plant invasions may be exacerbated by other components of global change, but how these drivers will interact is not always clear. To address these problems, greater coordination and a shift toward more proactive...Created 27 April 2025 • Updated 27 April 2025 -
Living Labs
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchThe AUT Living Laboratories programme is a ‘spin-off’ project from the BioH NSC Tranche 1 “Farming and Nature Conservation” NSC project. Here, the team are addressing science and social science questions raised by that previous project by establishing three, long-term experimental restoration sites to demonstrate the value of, and to inform best practice...Created 27 April 2025 • Updated 27 April 2025 -
He Oranga Wai, He Oranga Whakapapa: Critical Change in the health of the awa...
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchHe oranga wai, he oranga whakapapa. Critical change in the health of the awa through Kaupapa Maori-led Kaitiakitanga practicesCreated 27 April 2025 • Updated 27 April 2025 -
Te Whakahononga
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchNested within Ngā Rākau Taketake (NRT), Te Whakahononga is coordinating a multi-disciplinary response, connecting people who have mātauranga Māori skills and unique localised knowledge with other NRT scientists across 11 areas impacted by KDB and/or MR. With 11 different mana whenua groups coming on board, this is an unprecedented level of community/hapū...Created 27 April 2025 • Updated 27 April 2025 -
Adaptive Governance and Policy
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchTranche 2: Strategic Objective 7 This investment tackles the ways in which governance and policy need to change to better protect te taiao (the environment). At the moment, there are many core issues with regional and national governance and policies that fail to protect, and sometimes directly endanger, the wellbeing of our biodiversity and the integrity...Created 27 April 2025 • Updated 27 April 2025 -
Diatom response to nutrient enrichment
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchData associated with the paper: Diatom resource requirements change with lake nutrient limitation and enrichment. Gregersen R. Simon K.S. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/00288330.2022.2086589 [Project 3.1]Created 27 April 2025 • Updated 27 April 2025 -
Possibilities for Resourcing Rangatiratanga
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchThis report considers possible sources of finance the Crown might consider to support Māori rangatiratanga in biodiversity protection.Created 27 April 2025 • Updated 27 April 2025 -
Shared Authority and Responsibility of Our Environments: Why it makes sense...
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchThis briefing explores positive examples of shared authority or co-governance of the environment and the benefits that come from iwi and hapū knowledge and leadership. The briefing first defines what co-governance and shared authority is and how this benefits all of us who live in Aotearoa New Zealand. It also provides four case studies to demonstrate...Created 27 April 2025 • Updated 27 April 2025 -
Taking the Sting out of the Common Wasp
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchTranche 1: Project 2.2 Large-scale eradication may be in store for the humble wasp – a species responsible for one of the worst pest problems in Aotearoa. OVERVIEW Wasps have massive impacts on native flora and fauna, along with parts of the production sector including grapes and citrus – and they’re also a public health issue and nuisance. This...Created 27 April 2025 • Updated 27 April 2025 -
Ngā Rākau Taketake - Administration
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchIn 2018 and 2019 the Government announced an extra $34.5 million funding for research into kauri dieback ($29.5m) and myrtle rust ($5m). They chose the BioHeritage National Science Challenge to administer this extra support because of our collaborative and inclusive approach to achieving research outcomes and impact.Created 27 April 2025 • Updated 27 April 2025 -
Stopping Kauri Dieback in its Tracks
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchTranche1: Project 2.7 Selected native plant extracts may be able to attract and kill the spores of Phytophthora agathidicida – the pathogen causing kauri dieback, according to researchers. This project aims to find disease-fighting science solutions to protect New Zealand’s kauri forests through combining biochemical research with mātauranga Māori (Māori...Created 27 April 2025 • Updated 27 April 2025 -
Eco-index
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchTranche 2: Strategic Objective 1 A novel approach to guiding biodiversity restoration We know we need to do more to protect, restore and connect Aotearoa New Zealand’s unique ecosystems and biodiversity, but where do we start? Land managers, decision-makers, community environmentalists, and policy-makers are all wrestling with questions such as: where do...Created 27 April 2025 • Updated 27 April 2025 -
Stream mesocosm restoration experiment
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchA stream mesocosm experiment to investigate biological community recovery following restoration This experiment aimed to identify the impacts of a degraded community on colonist community establishment. 12 mesocosms were established, simulating physically healthy streams. Degraded invertebrate communities were established in half, mimicking the post-...Created 29 July 2021 • Updated 27 April 2025 -
Te Aho Matāuranga
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchTranche 2 - Pou Māori have strong connections to Aotearoa New Zealand’s environment, with valuable inter-generational views and belief systems that can underpin decision-making, governance and stewardship. BioHeritage work has been led by Te Tiriti o Waitangi for some time, which has placed us in a strong position to step up to a new level of commitment...Created 27 April 2025 • Updated 27 April 2025 -
Adaptive Evolution of Native Biota
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchTranche 1: Project 1.4 Researchers are collecting DNA information from some of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most threatened species in an effort to make them more resilient to future environmental change. Scientists leading this BioHeritage Challenge project took critical first steps towards building resilience in threatened taonga (treasured) species,...Created 27 April 2025 • Updated 27 April 2025 -
Mātauranga Māori For Biological Heritage
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchTranche 1: Project 1.1 Whakamanahia ngā mātauranga o nehe hai oranga tangata, oranga taiao Kaumātua-(elder) led research that puts Māori methods and mātauranga (knowledge) first is a key part of restoring Aotearoa New Zealand’s land and freshwater ecosystems. This is the fundamental concept behind this project, facilitated by Cawthron Institute’s Dr James...Created 27 April 2025 • Updated 27 April 2025 -
Rationale for a minimum 15% ecosystem land cover target
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchA living document, this sums up the current rationale for the Eco-index minimum 15% ecosystem land cover target.Created 27 April 2025 • Updated 27 April 2025 -
Aligned Funding 2016-17
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchSummary visualisations from research aligned to the Biological Heritage NSC by Challenge parties - 2016/17. See also 2015/16 and 2017/18.Created 29 July 2021 • Updated 29 July 2021 -
Subcontractor Other Party Terms & Conditions
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchThese terms and conditions govern how funding is used by a Subcontrator to the Challenge (but not a party to the NZBH Challenge Collaboration Agreement), to perform the research required to be carried out under the NSCIC and Challenge Programme Agreements made in accordance with the NSCIC.Created 29 July 2021 • Updated 29 July 2021