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  1. Making a game of it

    Like any good novel or movie, games also need strong narrative threads and be equally entertaining and engaging. This makes them useful for
    creating the right conditions for deeper understanding of serious topics, as they can motivate people to learn through play.

  2. Roast beef: how trees could help

    Like people keeping cool under beach umbrellas, cattle seek shade as the temperature rises. And for cows, even air temperatures in the low twenties can be too hot, because the animals naturally create a lot of internal heat whilst digesting food or producing milk.

  3. LiDAR project a ‘real step-change’ for Hawke’s Bay land management

    Hawke’s Bay Regional Council and researchers from Manaaki Whenua have worked on a ground-breaking project using LiDAR to enhance their understanding of the region’s landscape.

  4. Forests and fungi, a match made in Havelock

    The 36th annual Fungal Foray took place in Havelock at the top of the South Island this year with the forests providing a generous haul of fungi to the foragers.

  5. Hoverflies take on wasps in battle for Top of the South

    A batch of hoverflies have our pesky invasive wasps in their sights. The release of 20 European Volucella inanis hoverflies at two sites in Marlborough and Tasman in May marked the end of a long journey in the search for a natural enemy to the common and German wasps in Te Tau Ihu/Top of the South I...

  6. Changing our SOCs – a progress report

    Soil organic carbon is critical to soil health. It’s the basis of the soil food web and it plays an important role in maintaining soil structure, retaining water and nutrient cycling. Soils are also large reservoirs of carbon, and globally contain more carbon than the atmosphere and vegetation combi...

  7. Data supermarket on land use open for hungry minds

    An online data ‘supermarket’ is open to anyone hungry for information about the food and fibre we can grow in Aotearoa New Zealand – now and in the future.

  8. Manaaki Whenua supports climate commission workshops for Māori experts

    Manaaki Whenua Kaihautū Māori Research Impact Leader Dr Shaun Awatere (Ngāti Porou) has recently participated in workshops with other Māori advising the Climate Change Commission to develop Pae Tāwhiti Pae Tata, the te ao Māori-specific chapter for the Commission’s first national adaptation plan mon...

  9. Growing awareness of a mouldy problem

    Aucklanders were able to see the growth of mould in real time thanks to an innovative advertising campaign made possible by Manaaki Whenua researchers.

  10. Regenerative dairy farm project mooving along

    The tools are in the ground and data collection is in motion at Aotearoa New Zealand’s second-largest regenerative farming research project.