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'Tis the season - for gardening and for plant disease
20 December 2019
All throughout Aotearoa, offices are closing and people are winding down for the summer. For those of us staying home or visiting baches this season, a popular summertime activity is gardening. However, there is a threat to New Zealand’s native plants that may be lurking in your own garden – myrtle ...
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How many moa?
18 December 2019
Flightless birds were once the largest and heaviest terrestrial fauna on many archipelagos around the world – including the nine species of moa in New Zealand.
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New Zealand Journal of Ecology - Mātauranga Māori special issue
26 November 2019
Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research is proud to announce the contribution of its researchers to a special Mātauranga Māori issue of the New Zealand Journal of Ecology. The special issue is due to be launched at an evening event on December 2, during the New Zealand Ecological Society conference at Li...
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Preparing our trees' defences against Myrtle Rust
24 September 2019
Myrtle rust is a disease caused by an invasive pathogen that infects iconic native New Zealand trees in the Myrtaceae family, such as pōhutukawa and manuka. The windborne fungus causes tree dieback and potentially tree death.
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Canterbury's Allan Herbarium now the world leader in subantarctic flora
2 September 2019
A treasure-trove containing thousands of subantarctic specimens that date back to the 1800s arrived at Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research last month, making it the world’s largest collection.
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Kaikōmako manawa tāwhi (Pennantia baylisiana) returned to iwi
1 August 2019
One of the world’s rarest trees has potentially been saved from extinction and returned to its rohe.
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Biodiversity
Embedding mātauraunga Māori into the deep south – a new Māori whakairo to be carved in Antarctica
20 February 2019
Antarctica will shortly receive one of the first traditional Māori carvings to have been carved and completed on the ice.
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