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Irrigation overspray from a paddock into a reserve near Medbury, Canterbury. Affected area is shown in green. Photo: Warren Chinn.

Losing our edges: why reserves need to be bigger

Native shrublands were once common across the Canterbury Plains, but over time, conversion of land to other uses including irrigated past...

Cover: Wider than freshwater

Zooming out for a better view of the freshwater policy landscape

It’s not easy being a policy-maker. The world has more humans on it than it has ever had, we are hitting environmental limits and thresh...

An aerial view of a mangrove forest in Te Puna, Tauranga Harbour.

Root and branch: the importance of Aotearoa’s mangroves

Mangrove forests conjure images of lush, hot tropical swamps rich with life: wading birds such as herons or spoonbills, crabs skittering ...

Tunohopu Marae Rotorua

Helping Māori to make informed decisions about their whenua

There is a Tiriti obligation on the part of agencies and institutions, local government and central government to include mana whenua as ...

  1. He Awa Ora, He Tāngata Ora: Healthy Rivers, Healthy Communities

    Kairangahau Māori Jade Hyslop leads He Awa Ora, He Tāngata Ora, a project investigating how the study of river shapes and patterns can help Māori-led catchment restoration strategies.

  2. Whenua Koiora: Resilient restoration of wetlands informed by mātauranga-ā-hapū

    Kairangahau Māori Mahuru Wilcox leads Whenua Koiora, a project involving kaitiaki Māori to identify climate change impacts on wetland restoration projects.

  3. He Ngahere, He Korowai: Resilient land-use strategies for whenua Māori

    Senior researcher Dr Suzanne Lambie leads He Ngahere, He Korowai, a project focused on identifying resilient land uses on highly erosion-prone

    whenua Māori (Māori land).

  4. Carbon stocks – can ryegrass be beaten?

    Around the world, soils under managed grasslands hold a lot of carbon: up to 22% of all land-based carbon stocks. How the land is managed affects whether these soils gain, lose, or keep their carbon – and historically, much carbon has been lost as natural ecosystems have been converted into grassla...

  5. Using bird data for better urban planning

    One of Manaaki Whenua’s strengths as an organisation is that it is a great synthesiser – bringing diverse people, information and thinking together to create impact for Aotearoa New Zealand.

  6. Metal detectors: a new geochemical atlas for Aotearoa

    Thanks in part to experts in soil contamination from Manaaki Whenua, Aotearoa New Zealand now has its first ever Geochemical Atlas, providing a baseline of concentrations of elements in our near-surface soil.

  7. Making a game of it

    Like any good novel or movie, games also need strong narrative threads and be equally entertaining and engaging. This makes them useful for
    creating the right conditions for deeper understanding of serious topics, as they can motivate people to learn through play.

  8. Roast beef: how trees could help

    Like people keeping cool under beach umbrellas, cattle seek shade as the temperature rises. And for cows, even air temperatures in the low twenties can be too hot, because the animals naturally create a lot of internal heat whilst digesting food or producing milk.

  9. LiDAR project a ‘real step-change’ for Hawke’s Bay land management

    Hawke’s Bay Regional Council and researchers from Manaaki Whenua have worked on a ground-breaking project using LiDAR to enhance their understanding of the region’s landscape.

  10. Forests and fungi, a match made in Havelock

    The 36th annual Fungal Foray took place in Havelock at the top of the South Island this year with the forests providing a generous haul of fungi to the foragers.
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