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Poipoia Kia Rere interns take flight
15 December 2022
This summer we have eight Poipoia Kia Rere interns being supported by Manaaki Whenua supervisors across the motu, working in a range of disciplines with a Kaupapa Māori and Mātauranga Māori approach.
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Cultural exchange to Łutsel K'e Dene First Nation
15 December 2022
Despite the distances separating Aotearoa New Zealand and Canada, a team of Māori researchers, teachers, kaitiaki and rangatahi found more similarities than differences in a two-week cultural exchange to a remote indigenous community in Canada.
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Ten million hectares of Aotearoa now S-mapped
23 September 2022
S-map has reached a major milestone: 10 million hectares of Aotearoa have now been mapped under S-map’s soil survey programme, which is around 37% of the whole land area of the country
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Soil
Enhancing soils, water, and land
Manaaki Whenua appoints new CEO James Stevenson-Wallace
20 July 2022
James Stevenson-Wallace has been appointed by the Board of Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research as the organisation’s new Chief Executive Officer.
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Ngā whetū o Matariki – The stars of Matariki
21 June 2022
In Te Ao Māori (the Māori world) each of the whetū (stars) of Matariki is associated with a different domain of the natural world. Many of the nine stars also link to the important research and values undertaken by Manaaki Whenua.
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The 2022 New Zealand Garden Bird Survey starts soon. Can we count on you?
15 June 2022
The New Zealand Garden Bird Survey is an annual citizen science project led by scientists at Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research, one of New Zealand’s Crown Research Institutes, for the past 16 years.
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Natural enemy for invasive African tulip tree arrives in the Kingdom of Tonga
5 May 2022
Despite ongoing COVID-19 travel restrictions to the Kingdom of Tonga, Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research (MWLR) this week shipped off a courier package containing African tulip tree (Spathodea campanulata) cuttings infested with gall mites (Colomerus spathodeae) to collaborators in Tonga
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Weed biocontrol
Building Te Ao Māori thinking into science knowledge systems
8 March 2022
Indigenous knowledge systems and approaches hold a significant share in the well-being of the planet. Researchers say if we are to achieve our vision for Aotearoa New Zealand to improve the health of te taiao (the environment) and our people, we need to change the way people interact with the enviro...
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What’s been going on with the birds in your garden?
18 February 2022
2021 New Zealand Garden Bird Survey results. The State of New Zealand Garden Birds 2021 | Te āhua o ngā manu o te kāri i Aotearoa, a report released today by Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research, shows the latest results from New Zealand’s longest-running citizen science project – the New Zealand Gar...
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