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2019 News

  1. 'Tis the season - for gardening and for plant disease

    All throughout Aotearoa, offices are closing and people are winding down for the summer. For those of us staying home or visiting baches this season, a popular summertime activity is gardening. However, there is a threat to New Zealand’s native plants that may be lurking in your own garden – myrtle ...

  2. How many moa?

    Flightless birds were once the largest and heaviest terrestrial fauna on many archipelagos around the world – including the nine species of moa in New Zealand.

  3. New Zealand Journal of Ecology - Mātauranga Māori special issue

    Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research is proud to announce the contribution of its researchers to a special Mātauranga Māori issue of the New Zealand Journal of Ecology. The special issue is due to be launched at an evening event on December 2, during the New Zealand Ecological Society conference at Li...

  4. Creating pest-free sanctuaries for New Zealand

    Implementing multi-species pest mammal control for biodiversity and wider ecosystem recovery.

  5. Preparing our trees' defences against Myrtle Rust

    Myrtle rust is a disease caused by an invasive pathogen that infects iconic native New Zealand trees in the Myrtaceae family, such as pōhutukawa and manuka. The windborne fungus causes tree dieback and potentially tree death.

  6. Canterbury's Allan Herbarium now the world leader in subantarctic flora

    A treasure-trove containing thousands of subantarctic specimens that date back to the 1800s arrived at Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research last month, making it the world’s largest collection.

  7. Kaikōmako manawa tāwhi (Pennantia baylisiana) returned to iwi

    One of the world’s rarest trees has potentially been saved from extinction and returned to its rohe.

  8. Embedding mātauraunga Māori into the deep south – a new Māori whakairo to be carved in Antarctica

    Antarctica will shortly receive one of the first traditional Māori carvings to have been carved and completed on the ice.