Skip to content
Manaaki Whenua
Landcare Research
Publications
News
Events
Careers
About us
Contact us
Discover our research
Highlights
Research projects
Enhancing soils, water & land
Helping to manage our land and water resources wisely
Learn more
Related science
Erosion & sediment
Land & soil resources
Soil & ecosystem health
Restoring biodiversity; beating invasive species
Discovering, protecting and restoring our precious taonga
Learn more
Related science
Plants, invertebrates, fungi & bacteria
Species & ecosystem conservation
Weed biocontrol
Weed control in the Pacific
Animal pest management
Ecosystem resilience
Invasive invertebrates
Action on climate change
The major challenge of our generation
Learn more
Related research
Climate change adaptation & mitigation
Generative AI for climate adaptation
Huringa Āhuarangi, Huringa Oranga: Changing environment, changing wellbeing
Trees in landscapes
People & environment
Enabling New Zealand to make better environmental decisions
Learn more
Related science
Sustainable society & policy
Partner with us
Information for...
Iwi & Māori partners
Government & policy makers
Local & regional councils
Primary industries
Our science portfolios
Biota
Characterising land resources
Climate change adaptation & mitigation
Managing land and water
Plant biosecurity & biodiversity
Society, culture & policy
Wildlife management & conservation ecology
Our capabilities
Science & mātauranga Māori
International development
Business solutions
Toitū Envirocare
EcoGene: DNA-based diagnostics
Laboratories & diagnostics
Tools & resources
Get involved
NZ Garden Bird Survey
Survey of Rural Decision Makers
NZ Colony Loss Survey
Education
Teaching resources
Get involved
Identification
What is this bug?
Algae
Invertebrates
Plants
Fungi
Resources
National collections
Data & Databases
Mapping
Search
Search for…
within
All content
Case studies
Events
Factsheets
Files
Identification tools
Innovation stories
Laboratories
Maps
Media Releases
National Collections
News
Newsletters
People
Projects
Projects news
Publications
Research
Resources
Science portfolios
Tools
Search
Home
2020 News
Show me
All news
Innovation story
Media Release
News
Newsletter
Published In
All
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
National environmental reporting – our science behind the headline reports
8 August 2020
The recent increase in environmental regulations in New Zealand, including the National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management (2013, 2017, 2019) and the recent National Policy Statement for Highly Productive Land, is increasing demand for monitoring and assessing the impacts of land use on our ...
Newsletter
Pūtaiao
Society, culture & policy
Celebrating our achievements
8 August 2020
Researcher Murray Dawson became a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2020, a well-deserved recognition for Murray’s long career and voluntary work supporting botany, horticulture, natural history, and public engagement.
Newsletter
Pūtaiao
Celebrating our achievements
Listening to the voices of our environment
8 August 2020
Te Urewera is a remote, rugged area of hill country in the North Island, and is central to the wellbeing of Ngāi Tūhoe. From 1954 until 2014 much of Te Urewera was designated a National Park. At this point something extraordinary occurred: Te Urewera achieved legal personification under the Te Urewe...
Newsletter
Pūtaiao
Society, culture & policy
Getting outdoors and counting birds
8 August 2020
The New Zealand Garden Bird Survey is one of New Zealand’s longest running citizen science projects, engaging the public in biodiversity and conservation issues.
Pūtaiao
National collections – not just a nice-to-have
28 May 2020
The importance of Manaaki Whenua’s nationally significant collections of biota
Innovation story
Collections
Biota
Adélie penguins contribute to a better understanding of Marine Protected Areas in Antarctica
25 May 2020
Satellites are keeping track of what Adélie penguins and other top predators get up to in the Antarctic, and those data are helping a multi-national research effort better understand the benefits of Marine Protected Areas in the Southern Ocean.
News
Celebrating our achievements
23 May 2020
Building on her significant contributions to the approval of the Global Assessment on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services at the Intergovernmental Panel of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) in Paris in May 2019, Anne-Gaelle Ausseil has now been nominated to scope the nexus assessment of in...
Newsletter
Pūtaiao
Celebrating our achievements
Characterising land resources
Soil health and resilience – Oneone ora tangata ora
6 May 2020
The ongoing capacity of soil ecosystems to maintain the services they provide is fundamental to our economic, cultural, social, and environmental well-being.
Newsletter
Pūtaiao
It’s rare to be common, and common to be rare
6 May 2020
A key feature of life’s diversity is that some species are common but many more are rare.
Newsletter
Pūtaiao
Biodiversity
Wildlife management & conservation ecology
More Birds in the Bush: A Progress Report
6 May 2020
With global biodiversity in freefall, research to prevent the decline of New Zealand’s unique bird species on the mainland– the kiwi, kererū, kea, kōkako and others – is nationally critical. In response, Manaaki Whenua is leading an MBIE Endeavour research programme to discover the most important in...
Newsletter
Pūtaiao
Prev
1
...
3
4
5
6
7
...
9
Next