Skip to content
Manaaki Whenua
Landcare Research
Publications
News
Events
About us
Contact us
Discover our research
Highlights
Research projects
Biodiversity
Discovering, protecting and restoring our precious taonga
Learn more
Related science
Plants, invertebrates, fungi & bacteria
Species & ecosystem conservation
Biosecurity
Protecting New Zealand from invasive biological threats
Learn more
Related science
Weed management
Animal pest management
Ecosystem resilience
Invasive invertebrates
Land
Helping to manage our land and water resources wisely
Learn more
Related science
Erosion & sediment
Land & soil resources
Soil & ecosystem health
Environment
Enabling New Zealand to make better environmental decisions
Learn more
Related science
Climate action
Climate change & greenhouse gases
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
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
Events
Factsheets
Identification tools
Innovation stories
Laboratories
Maps
Media Releases
National Collections
News
Newsletters
People
Projects
Projects news
Publications
Research
Resources
Science portfolios
Tools
Search
Home
News
Show me
All news
Innovation story
Media Release
News
Newsletter
Published In
All
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
Coupled systems key to successful climate change outcomes
11 June 2021
Treating climate, biodiversity and human society as coupled systems will be key to successfully mitigate the effects of climate change.
News
New research highlights the work of Māori in Antarctica
9 June 2021
Over the last 200 years, Antarctic narratives have been of those carried out by predominantly European male explorers. However, a research project led by Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research and Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu researchers looked into the connection of Māori with Antarctica to better document a...
News
Reconstructing the past from poop: now we know what the little bush moa ate
8 June 2021
Knowledge of the diets of New Zealand's extinct moa comes from careful analysis of moa coprolites (fossilised poop) and gizzard contents. Moa coprolites and gizzard contents can be dissected and analysed under the microscope or using DNA identification techniques to decipher what the birds ate. The ...
News
Glowing fungi and new rust species among Fungal Foray finds
12 May 2021
Unusual bioluminescent fungi and a new rust species were among the highlights for mycologists at this year’s Fungal Foray held on Rakiura / Stewart Island recently.
News
Trans-Tasman collaboration unlocks genetic secrets behind myrtle rust
30 April 2021
In a trans-Tasman collaboration, scientists have sequenced the genome of [Austropuccinia psidii], the fungus responsible for the disease myrtle rust, and produced the world’s largest assembled fungal genome.
News
Myrtle rust
Building community connections to protect bats in the Piako
21 April 2021
A group of around 25 farmers, Piako residents, land managers and conservation experts explored ways to protect the threatened long-tailed bats in the region at a recent event organised by the Piako Catchment Forum and sponsored by Manaaki Whenua-Landcare Research.
News
Deep ecological research funded for nationally significant Māori rock art sites
8 April 2021
A new research project helping with the ecological restoration of nationally significant Māori rock art sites has received funding.
News
Taxonomist appreciation day
19 March 2021
It's Taxonomist Appreciation Day today - a day when we say “thank you” for all of the hard work done by taxonomists around the world.
News
Biodiversity
Celebrating our achievements
2 March 2021
Members of the LCDB team at the Science NZ Awards
Science New Zealand represents the country’s seven Crown Research Institutes, and the annual Awards recognise research excellence at each CRI. In the 2020 ceremony, held at Parliament in December, Bruce Warburton won a Lifetime Achievement Award for...
News
Pūtaiao
New wetland educational resources released to schools across Aotearoa
1 February 2021
A new series of repo (wetland) educational resources focusing on education, awareness, and kaitiakitanga (guardianship) is being launched on World Wetlands Day (February 2) to schools throughout Aotearoa New Zealand.
News
Wetlands
Education
Prev
1
2
3
4
...
6
Next