Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research

New Zealand's foremost environmental research organisation.

High Country Bovine Tuberculosis (Tb) research

Landcare Research staff take a break to admire the Molesworth Station study area.

Scientists from Landcare Research have made discoveries that could have big impacts on management of high country lands both in the Northern South Island High Country and further afield.

By studying where the vector species of bovine tuberculosis – possums, ferrets and wild pigs – lived as well as their movements between catchments and interactions amongst each other, the team established that a pest control strategy targeting specific habitats and a narrow range of altitudes containing the highest densities of possums and ferrets would be successful.

That means large high country properties would not have to undergo broad–scale, extensive control operations

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IYOB

Beetle2010 has been declared the International Year of Biodiversity (IYOB). Highlights and snapshots of Landcare Research's work in this area are now online ».

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Science in Focus - Soils and Landscapes

Soils and Landscapes

Soils, landscapes and natural resources (such as water) underpin natural and managed ecosystems. They provide ecosystem and productive services on which we rely for agriculture and forestry and act as a platform for communities, infrastructure, and the national identity on which our culture and tourist trade is based. Current land uses, intensification, the changing geographic pattern of our land uses, as well as climate change and variability, are putting increasing pressures on our soils, landscapes, and natural resources threatening their ability to sustain the critical functions on which we depend.

The Soil and Landscapes team comprises of more than 40 staff, at five sites across New Zealand. We lead research on understanding the complex inter–relationships that control the response of soils and landscapes to climatic and human–induced pressures, evaluating current risk, and offering sustainable land use and natural resource allocation options. Our value is in providing opportunities for the future.


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International Year of Biodiversity (IYOB) Hatched: sustainability eBook Kararehe Kino Issue 15, December 2009 What´s New in Biological Control of Weeds? Number 50, November 2009

Upcoming events

7/03/2010 - Fifth IUFRO Meeting on Phytophthora Diseases in Forests and Natural Ecosystems 11/04/2010 - The Entomological Society´s 59th Annual conference: ´Global entomology in New Zealand´ 17/04/2010 - BioBlitz 2010 – finding nature in the city 29/11/2010 - 2010 Australian Systematic Botany Society Conference

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