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  1. Decision-making in freshwater management – a social learning approach

    Scientists have long-recognized that one of their biggest challenges is how to translate their recommendations into lasting management and behaviour changes among stakeholders. Individuals or people working in organisations may not be able to make changes easily, owing to a combination of norms and ...

  2. The post-lockdown future of work

    A constant in science is the need to interact with other scientists. New Zealand’s scientists maintain their credibility and skills by working with other science leaders, nationally and globally, and this cannot be done by staying at home. However, the COVID-19 lockdown has challenged our thinking a...

  3. Our COVID-19 research

  4. National environmental reporting – our science behind the headline reports

    The recent increase in environmental regulations in New Zealand, including the National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management (2013, 2017, 2019) and the recent National Policy Statement for Highly Productive Land, is increasing demand for monitoring and assessing the impacts of land use on our ...

  5. Celebrating our achievements

    Researcher Murray Dawson became a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2020, a well-deserved recognition for Murray’s long career and voluntary work supporting botany, horticulture, natural history, and public engagement.

  6. Listening to the voices of our environment

    Te Urewera is a remote, rugged area of hill country in the North Island, and is central to the wellbeing of Ngāi Tūhoe. From 1954 until 2014 much of Te Urewera was designated a National Park. At this point something extraordinary occurred: Te Urewera achieved legal personification under the Te Urewe...

  7. Celebrating our achievements

    Building on her significant contributions to the approval of the Global Assessment on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services at the Intergovernmental Panel of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) in Paris in May 2019, Anne-Gaelle Ausseil has now been nominated to scope the nexus assessment of in...

  8. Soil health and resilience – Oneone ora tangata ora

    The ongoing capacity of soil ecosystems to maintain the services they provide is fundamental to our economic, cultural, social, and environmental well-being.

  9. It’s rare to be common, and common to be rare

    A key feature of life’s diversity is that some species are common but many more are rare.

  10. More Birds in the Bush: A Progress Report

    With global biodiversity in freefall, research to prevent the decline of New Zealand’s unique bird species on the mainland– the kiwi, kererū, kea, kōkako and others – is nationally critical. In response, Manaaki Whenua is leading an MBIE Endeavour research programme to discover the most important in...