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2024 News

  1. Celebrating our achievements

    Rachelle Binny, Senior Researcher

    Mathematics Research award for senior researcher Dr Rachelle Binny
    Rachelle was awarded the 2023 NZ Mathematical Society Early Career Award for Mathematical Research. The NZMS Early Career Research Award was set up in 2006 to foster mathematical research in New Ze...

  2. Understanding your garden birds: who is ahead of the trend this year?

    There’s good news for South Islanders who feel they have been missing out on seeing the boisterous, honey-eating tūī in their gardens. Results from the 2023 State of NZ Garden Birds | Te Āhua o ngā Manu o te Kāri Aotearoa have just been released and the regional long-term trend shows a rapid increas...

  3. First natural enemy for an invasive weed to be released in Tuvalu

    Tuvalu has welcomed its first ever natural enemy to control the invasive weed tamalini or leucaena (Leucaena leucocephela).

  4. ANZAC gall fly release promises natural solution to weed threat

    A Kiwi-Australian collaboration with a difference is underway this ANZAC Day week on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

  5. More results from the sixth Survey of Rural Decision Makers

    What is the perceived relevance and trustworthiness of potential sources of advice?

  6. Bee informed: all the results from the 2023 Colony Loss Survey

    Run each year since 2015, the New Zealand Colony Loss Survey asks beekeepers across the country about how their hives have fared over the previous winter.

  7. Down to the ground

    Soil sampling is long hours of hot, dirty work – and the end result is information for 10 million hectares of farmable land across AoNZ being available via S-map.

  8. S-map expands further

    Manaaki Whenua has completed an extra 500,000 hectares of new soil mapping coverage across some of AoNZ’s best food-producing land.

  9. Filling in the blanks

    As part of ongoing efforts to extend the coverage of S-map, a team of pedologists from Manaaki Whenua recently targeted one of the very conspicuous blank spots – Banks Peninsula in Canterbury.

  10. Scouting out soil data

    Although the stony soils of the upper Wairau Valley, Marlborough, have underpinned the success of winemakers, they have made soil mapping there a slow and arduous task.