News & events
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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.
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Dec 17
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What on Earth?
18 Dec 17
Read moreWhat does the latest satellite Earth observation technology mean for New Zealand industry, environment and climate? March’s ‘What On Earth’ Colloquium in Wellington is the perfect place to answer that question.
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Dec 17
15
Wasp biocontrol update 12
15 Dec 17 by Bob Brown
Read moreAfter racing badgers to wasp nests last year, and losing half the time, I decided to schedule this year’s collecting trip a few weeks earlier in the year, starting in late northern hemisphere summer. I started the trip in Leuven, Belgium, where I teamed up with colleagues at KU Leuven who specialise in the evolution of sociality in bees, wasps and ants.
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Nov 17
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Enhancing global geospatial data standards
24 Nov 17 by Christine Harper
Read moreInternational meetings on a subject that enables much of the technology that enhances our lives will be held in New Zealand next month.