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New evidence shows the effects of irrigation on soil
20 February 2023
Once the butt of jokes because of its 70 million sheep, New Zealand now has less than half the number of sheep it had in the 1980s. That’s because, echoing a global trend, agricultural land in New Zealand has undergone rapid changes in usage to keep pace with growing demands for food. Dry grassland ...
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Irrigation
Giving whakamana back to Māori landowners through land science tools
20 February 2023
A potential new kānuka industry is emerging thanks to Māori landowners partnering boldly with Manaaki Whenua to better understand their land through a te ao Māori-led approach to using land science tools.
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Pūtaiao
Enhancing soils, water, and land
Mātauranga Māori
New trends in environmental perceptions
20 February 2023
In December 2022 the 10th New Zealand Environmental Perceptions Survey (EPS) found that New Zealanders as a group rated the current state of the environment overall as “adequate to good”.
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Pūtaiao
Proceed with care: Decolonising cultural environmental monitoring
20 February 2023
For Māori, the presence of ripe miro berries in the ngahere (forest) would traditionally indicate the health of a forest and the imminent arrival of the kererū, a significant food source for hapū.
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Celebrating our achievements
20 February 2023
The Manaaki Whenua Weeds Biocontrol team
Manaaki Whenua’s Weeds Biocontrol team had a successful evening at the NZ Biosecurity Awards in late October 2022. Members of the team contribute to B3: Better Border Biosecurity, which won the Science Award. Ronny Groenteman and Quentin Paynter joined the g...
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Celebrating our achievements
Science to underpin stewardship of New Zealand’s highly productive land
20 February 2023
Aotearoa New Zealand is internationally renowned for its high soil diversity. Although our national soil survey, S-map, is only halfway through mapping the farmed soils of New Zealand, already over 5,500 unique soil types have been identified, from the sub-tropical clay soils of Northland to the vol...
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Building biosecurity capability in the Pacific
22 November 2022
Over the past year, and despite ongoing Covid-19 travel restrictions, researchers in Manaaki Whenua’s Weed Biocontrol group have been able to extend their expertise overseas, working with teams in eight Pacific nations as part of the collaborative Managing Invasive Species for Climate Change Adaptat...
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A world-first predator eradication project begins on Rakiura/Stewart Island
21 November 2022
On 5 July 2022, Manaaki Whenua and Te Puka Rakiura Trust signed a significant research partnership agreement worth a joint $2.8 million over 4 years to work together towards ridding Rakiura/Stewart Island of all major predators - possums, rats, feral cats and hedgehogs.
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Pūtaiao
Restoring biodiversity, beating invasive species
An update on our myrtle rust research
21 November 2022
Three years into the Beyond Myrtle Rust research programme, Manaaki Whenua researchers are moving into a key phase. Studies to understand the ecosystem impact of the disease have produced a substantial body of data, and researchers are now heading to the genetic laboratory, and to analysis and repor...
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Pūtaiao
Restoring biodiversity, beating invasive species
Myrtle rust
The right tree in the right place? A major economic tree species poses major ecological threats
21 November 2022
Radiata pine is native to North America, where it is narrowly distributed along the Californian coast, but is one of the most widely planted tree species in the southern hemisphere. It had naturalised in New Zealand by 1904.
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