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Making “un-poplar” decisions: a framework for better tree choices in our hill country
19 May 2022
Around 20% of Aotearoa New Zealand is classed as “hill country” – much of it marginal pastoral agricultural land with low productive potential. Often steep and treeless, hill country is prone to soil erosion and rapid surface runoff after rainfall.
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Predator modelling applied to study of COVID health equity
19 May 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has been disruptive of many science activities over the past 2 years. Fieldwork, conferences, hui, workshops – much work has had to be rescheduled or moved online. However, scientists are lateral thinkers. The pandemic has also brought new and wide-ranging opportunities to appl...
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Kauri dieback going to the dogs
19 May 2022
Manaaki Whenua wildlife ecologist Dr Al Glen is working with the Auckland Council and Zach Carter from the University of Auckland to test the ability of trained dogs to sniff out Phytophthora agathidicida, the causative organism of kauri dieback.
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Celebrating our achievements
19 May 2022
During 2021 Angela Brandt was seconded to work with the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment on a major new report: Space invaders – A review of how we manage weeds that threaten native ecosystems. The report, which sets out whether Aotearoa New Zealand is doing the best job it can to mana...
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Celebrating our achievements
From collect to connect – rebalancing our collections and databases
19 May 2022
Manaaki Whenua is the custodian of a number of Nationally Significant Collections and Databases (NSCDs) on behalf of everyone in Aotearoa New Zealand.
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Science organisations combine to plot a path to net carbon zero
9 May 2022
Eight government-owned science organisations have joined forces to accelerate the reduction of their greenhouse gas emissions.
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Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research celebrates formal opening of its new buildings
7 May 2022
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research (MWLR) marked an exciting direction in its research future today with the formal opening of its new buildings built to foster collaboration and better science outcomes.
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Natural enemy for invasive African tulip tree arrives in the Kingdom of Tonga
5 May 2022
Despite ongoing COVID-19 travel restrictions to the Kingdom of Tonga, Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research (MWLR) this week shipped off a courier package containing African tulip tree (Spathodea campanulata) cuttings infested with gall mites (Colomerus spathodeae) to collaborators in Tonga
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Weed biocontrol
Reducing nitrogen losses from dairy farms on stony soils
8 March 2022
In the past two decades, much dryland farming has been converted to irrigated dairy farming in Aotearoa New Zealand, notably in eastern areas of Te Wai Pounamu (the South Island). Here, soils are largely shallow, free-draining, and stony, and dairy conversions have contributed to concerns about incr...
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Managing lucerne to fix soil N losses
8 March 2022
Lucerne is a widely used grazing fodder crop, and like other legumes, is able to fix nitrogen (N) in the soil. Well-managed lucerne is highly productive and the plant also has deep roots, which allow water extraction from well below 2 m depth and extract N from the soil.
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