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The forgotten fauna: introduced seed predators are no surrogate for extinct seed-eating animals on islands
2 September 2020
Whenever humans have reached islands, animal species on those islands have been exposed to a raft of new pressures, such as habitat loss and invasive species. As a result, many animals have gone extinct – the dodo of Mauritius being one the most well-known examples. Less well-known is that the extin...
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Major update of S-map Online soil data
27 August 2020
S-map Online, a tool developed and updated by Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research, provides the best available soil survey data for New Zealand.
The latest update to S-map is a significant nationwide update. A major focus is the update to the soil hydrology information. This is an outcome of an MBIE...
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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.
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Improving water resource management in Colombia and Ecuador
20 April 2020
Among the postponements forced by COVID-19 was a visit by a study group from Colombia and Ecuador. The group was due in New Zealand to learn about NZ’s approaches to catchment management.
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Science during lockdown
17 April 2020
Although New Zealand was in COVID-19 lockdown, it didn't stop scientists at Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research from devising some ingenious home-based workarounds to make sure that their research could keep going even if they weren't allowed to go into the field to do their fieldwork.
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Results now in: 2019 New Zealand Colony Loss Survey
15 April 2020
Results are now in from the 2019 New Zealand Colony Loss Survey – a vital source of information for the New Zealand beekeeping industry.
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Sir Rob Fenwick's enduring legacy
12 March 2020
We are greatly saddened to learn of the death of Sir Rob Fenwick, a long-time collaborator, colleague and friend to us all at Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research.
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What’s happening on our land?
5 February 2020
Land Cover Database version 5 out now!
In the past six years, more than half a million hectares of New Zealand’s land cover have changed, according to the latest version of New Zealand’s Land Cover Database (LCDB, version 5).
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How is New Zealand's landscape changing?
4 February 2020
New Zealand’s land cover is constantly changing. This week sees the release of version 5 of New Zealand’s Land Cover Database (LCDB), which details these changes, helping us to understand how the way we are using our land is changing.
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World attention for New Zealand’s threatened fungi
14 January 2020
Established in 1964, the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species (www.iucnredlist.org) is a critical indicator of the health of the world’s biodiversity. It is now viewed as the world’s most comprehensive information source on the global conservation status of...
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