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  1. Where do birds go to? Movements that link landscapes

    Designing conservation management strategies to protect native manu is especially challenging for mobile species, which range widely across
    New Zealand and face multiple threats in different places and at different times. Researchers face additional technical challenges in building
    knowledge of wher...

  2. Restoring New Zealand birdscapes

    Manaaki Whenua researchers are combining ambitious field-based research and computer modelling to derive evidence-based conservation management strategies that agencies, ecosanctuaries and farmers can all use to help native birds thrive, in montane native forests, on farms, and in coastal harbours a...

  3. Backpacking kākā and miromiro on the move

    Using kākā and miromiro as case studies, Neil Fitzgerald and John Innes hope to improve native bird abundance and connectivity in the different context of fragmented native forests of the North Island. In collaboration with Department of Conservation scientists, 11 kākā were tagged at sites near Ham...

  4. Jumping the fence: a new inventory of New Zealand’s naturalised flora

    New Zealand is one of the world’s top plant biodiversity hotspots. Because of historical isolation, many of its native plant species are endemic – found nowhere else. However, in the past two centuries an almost equivalent number of plant species in New Zealand have become naturalised – many were br...

  5. Turning the next page on predator control in New Zealand

    The story, so far, is well-known. Introductions of small mammals to New Zealand have caused catastrophic losses of indigenous biota owing to
    predation, browsing, and competition for shared resources. Our deeply endemic bird species, highly adapted to New Zealand’s pre-predator
    environments, are part...

  6. When hunters become the hunted

    Manaaki Whenua’s research capabilities are in demand worldwide, even in the Southern Atlantic Ocean where mice are decimating seabirds on remote Gough Island.

  7. Te Mana o te Taiao is about making a collective difference

    Manaaki Whenua researchers are working across agencies, and with kaitiaki iwi, community groups and landowners to gather as much species knowledge as possible to create the tools and models that will then feed into regional biodiversity strategies

  8. A range of work in wetland biodiversity

    Wetlands are important ecosystems for their biodiversity, cultural, and recreational values as well as their key role in carbon storage. However, wetlands are also ecosystems under threat. In New Zealand, wetlands have declined by ~90%, mostly over the past 200 years, from around 10% to just ~1% of ...

  9. Snow business: black carbon, red algae, and future glacier survival

    In early 2020, large parts of eastern Australia burned. Bushfires turned the land black, the skies orange, and the sun red. In New Zealand, 2,000 km away, ash from the fires also coated our glaciers and snow-capped mountains, turning them a shade of caramel.

  10. Fukushima: the whole picture from atmosphere to ocean

    A Manaaki Whenua expert in landwater interactions has been involved in the most comprehensive review to date of the impact from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster on the terrestrial environment.