News & events
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Sep 19
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Read moreA treasure-trove containing thousands of subantarctic specimens that date back to the 1800s is arriving at Manaaki Whenua this month, making the subantarctic collection housed in the Allan Herbarium the world’s largest.
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Aug 19
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Read moreThe competition aims to highlight the diversity, beauty and interest of the biodiversity and ecosystems of New Zealand, and the role of ecologists in unravelling their mysteries. Images must either be taken in New Zealand or illustrate the work that New Zealand ecologists are undertaking in other countries.
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Aug 19
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Conservation Week 2019 Livestreams
27 Aug 19
Read moreAs part of this year's Conservation Week we will be live-streaming from inside several of the Nationally Significant Databases and…
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Aug 19
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Read moreScientists advise to prune your lilly pilly hedges this month, to save New Zealand’s native plants
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Aug 19
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Read morePilot project is working to establish, maintain and strengthen the sense of belonging of Māori rangatahi, including visiting Manaaki Whenua to touch, feel and see their taonga and take part in learning how to protect it.
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Aug 19
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Kaikōmako manawa tāwhi returned to iwi
20 Aug 19
Read moreOne of the world’s rarest trees has potentially been saved from extinction and returned to its rohe. Pennantia baylisiana, once in the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s rarest tree, was successfully propagated by scientists in the 1980s and then grown on to produce hundreds of saplings – reducing its risk of extinction.
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Jul 19
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Red-listing NZ's endangered fungi
19 Jul 19 by Felicity Rookes
Read moreScientists are campaigning to have endangered fungi from across Australasia included in the Global Red List of threatened species.
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Jul 19
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New research confirms warming climate bad for forest birds
15 Jul 19 by Felicity Rookes
Read moreNew Zealand will need to make major advances in large-scale predator management to stop and reverse forest bird declines.
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Jul 19
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Read moreOne of New Zealand’s longest running citizen science projects, the New Zealand Garden Bird Survey, has taken off again this week.
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Jun 19
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Very big books about very small plants
19 Jun 19
Read moreThis week sees the publication by Missouri Botanical Garden Press of the second and third volumes of a landmark collection of books known as a flora, representing all we know about a small but very significant aspect of New Zealand’s plant biodiversity – liverworts and hornworts.