News & events
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May 18
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Protecting our history with harakeke - the National New Zealand Flax Collection
8 May 18 by Katarina Tawiri
Read moreManaaki Whenua is kaitiaki (guardian) of the National New Zealand Flax Collection. The collection is made up of over 300 plants. The five main collections include weaving varieties, ornamental garden plants, historical plants from the early flax industry, plants taken to offshore islands by both Māori and Pākehā, and a collection of plants representing what grows in the wild.
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May 18
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Our history with kauri dieback
2 May 18
Read moreAotearoa’s magnificent kauri tree was almost wiped out in the early 1900s due to settler deforestation, and now the giants of our forests face a new threat – kauri dieback.
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Apr 18
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Jewelled geckos released in Otago
10 Apr 18
Read moreThe Central Otago Ecological Trust recently released Jewelled geckos into a 14-ha predator-proof fence near Alexandra. This species has been extinct from Central Otago for many decades, so this translocation represents a significant step in restoring lost lizard communities in this region.
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Mar 18
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Read moreDogs in the Rotorua area could see their dermatitis clear up with the world’s first field release of a Brazilian fungal biocontrol agent aimed at combating the invasive weed tradescantia.
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Feb 18
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Ahi Pepe | MothNet heads north
28 Feb 18
Read moreStudents and teachers from at least nine kura kaupapa schools across New Zealand gathered at Pūtiki Marae in Whānganui last week for Ahi Pepe | MothNet’s first North Island camp.
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Feb 18
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New species identified at NZ’s first wetland Bioblitz
25 Feb 18 by Suzette Howe
Read moreSchool students have discovered new bacterial species in Aotearoa’s first wetland BioBlitz.
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Jan 18
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Hitting back at Japanese Honeysuckle
31 Jan 18 by Suzette Howe
Read moreHundreds of Japan’s white admiral butterflies are emerging in New Zealand for the first time.
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Jan 18
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Fungi of New Zealand
30 Jan 18 by Suzette Howe
Read moreA new educational booklet, aimed at teaching Māori ancestral knowledge about fungi (hekaheka) has been released to schools.
Manaaki Whenua researchers launched the bilingual teacher and student booklet “Ngā Hekaheka o Aotearoa,” at Auckland’s Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Ngā Maungarongo. -
Jan 18
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Wetlands Bioblitz 2018: Rotopiko
22 Jan 18
Read moreA fun, educational event for the whole family to celebrate World Wetlands Day and local biodiversity.
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Jan 18
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Update 5: Experiments with agar plates
16 Jan 18 by Phil Novis
Read moreTesting predicted responses of Antarctic plants and microbes to environmental change. It is time now to consider how we will conduct laboratory experiments to determine the environmental tolerances of the eight species of Antarctic terrestrial species.