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2020 News

  1. Improving water resource management in Colombia and Ecuador

    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.

  2. Science during lockdown

    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.

  3. Results now in: 2019 New Zealand Colony Loss Survey

    Results are now in from the 2019 New Zealand Colony Loss Survey – a vital source of information for the New Zealand beekeeping industry.

  4. Sir Rob Fenwick's enduring legacy

    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.

  5. What’s happening on our land?

    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).

  6. How is New Zealand's landscape changing?

    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.

  7. World attention for New Zealand’s threatened fungi

    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...