Although the stony soils of the upper Wairau Valley, Marlborough, have underpinned the success of winemakers, they have made soil mapping...
Manaaki Whenua has completed an extra 500,000 hectares of new soil mapping coverage across some of AoNZ’s best food-producing land.
A four-year data science programme involving a joint Aotearoa New Zealand-Singapore research team working to accelerate the development o...
Most commercial forests in Aotearoa New Zealand are clear-fell harvested. Trees of harvest age are cut down in areas called coupes or com...
Like so many plants brought by Europeans to augment botanical and kitchen gardens in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand in the 19th centu...
Wallabies arrived in Aotearoa New Zealand in the late 19th century, courtesy of Sir George Grey (Governor of New Zealand from 1845 to 185...
When it comes to ecological restoration in Aotearoa New Zealand, obtaining plant seeds with a known local wild origin has been widely adv...
The challenge in keeping an environment free of predators is to make sure any remaining populations of animals in other areas don’t reinv...
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 st...
Like people keeping cool under beach umbrellas, cattle seek shade as the temperature rises. And for cows, even air temperatures in the lo...
The fungus associated with facial eczema is common worldwide, but the toxicity of the Aotearoa New Zealand strain causes much more severe...
Around the world, soils under managed grasslands hold a lot of carbon: up to 22% of all land-based carbon stocks. How the land is manage...
In New Zealand, farmers and the largely urban general public are held to have differing views on what is meant by being a “good farmer”. ...
Key to making research programmes successful is ensuring we have the social and cultural licence to operate says Kairangahau Māori Mahuru...
An online data ‘supermarket’ is open to anyone hungry for information about the food and fibre we can grow in Aotearoa New Zealand – now ...
S-map has reached the halfway mark for mapping the farmable land area of Aotearoa New Zealand.
To develop effective management plans for river catchments, policymakers and catchment managers need to account for how climate change mi...
Increasing carbon stocks in woody vegetation will be a major contribution to Aotearoa New Zealand reaching its zero-carbon emissions targ...
“Bridging the gap between remote sensing and tree modelling with data science" – an exciting collaboration between New Zealand and Singap...
For the first time in New Zealand, research has shown how remote sensing, using LiDAR, could aid improved conservation management of wetl...
Eight countries in the Pacific will introduce natural enemies in order to reduce the impacts of key weeds in the island nations under the...
Radiata pine is native to North America, where it is narrowly distributed along the Californian coast, but is one of the most widely plan...
Camera traps are used for monitoring a range of wildlife species in Aotearoa New Zealand, including native and invasive animals. These ca...
Kākāpō, found only in Aotearoa New Zealand, are critically endangered, flightless, nocturnal, and the heaviest parrots in the world. Kākā...
Russell Forest on the east coast of Te Tai Tokerau/Northland is a diverse native ngāhere (forest). Researchers say it is an important exa...
Our researchers have revealed the most comprehensive analysis of prehistoric kākāpō diet ever performed.
With native forest bird species in AoNZ under threat from introduced mammal predators such as possums, rats, and stoats, the ranges of ma...
East Coast farmer Tim Brownlie and QEII National Trust regional representative for Gisborne Malcolm Rutherford have become fascinated by ...
Around 20% of Aotearoa New Zealand (5.2 million ha) is classed as “hill country” – much of it marginal pastoral agricultural land with lo...
Soil erosion processes are notably active in Aotearoa New Zealand: our steep slopes, generally weak sedimentary rocks, and high annual ra...
Lucerne is a widely used grazing fodder crop, and, like other legumes, is able to fix nitrogen in the soil. Well-managed lucerne is highl...
Introduced conifers are the backbone of commercial forestry in Aotearoa New Zealand, worth around $5 billion a year. However, invasion of...
Aotearoa New Zealand has 37 native Myrtaceae species, including pōhutukawa and rātā, mānuka and kānuka, ramarama and swamp maire, of whic...
The African tulip tree is considered one of the 100 worst alien invasive species in the world and one of the top 30 terrestrial invasive ...
Pest control of invasive mammalian species – rats, mice, stoats, possums, and the rest – is a key priority for Aotearoa New Zealand to pr...
To test the effects of climate change on species at any scale is difficult. Scientists can’t manufacture realistic global warming in a te...
Research published in August 2021 by the Deep South Challenge and Manaaki Whenua, with the support of Motu Economic and Public Policy Res...
In October 2021, Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga and Manaaki Whenua released a report offering new guidance for Te Ao Māori on climate change ad...
Indigenous knowledge systems and approaches hold a significant share in the well-being of the planet.
The COVID-19 pandemic has been disruptive of many science activities over the past 2 years. Fieldwork, conferences, hui, workshops – much...
Social licence to operate is an essential ingredient in successful applied research, and is sought after by groups and organisations wish...
Recognising the need for robust ways to measure the effectiveness of contact tracing in reducing the spread of COVID-19, a team of resear...
New research led by Senior Researcher Dr Alison Greenaway has focused on how non-indigenous scientists embrace the geographical, cultural...
Manaaki Whenua researchers are combining ambitious field-based research and computer modelling to derive evidence-based conservation mana...
Designing conservation management strategies to protect native manu is especially challenging for mobile species, which range widely acro...
The story, so far, is well-known. Introductions of small mammals to New Zealand have caused catastrophic losses of indigenous biota owing...
Wetlands are important ecosystems for their biodiversity, cultural, and recreational values as well as their key role in carbon storage. ...
Global biodiversity losses due to human activities have accelerated more in the past 50 years than at any time in human history. Intertwi...
It is an exciting time to be a fungal taxonomist (someone who specialises in the identification and classification of fungi) according to...
Introduced Vespula wasps – the German wasp (Vespula germanica) and the common wasp (V. vulgaris) – are generalist predators that attack a...
Mammalian predators primarily rely on smell as their main cue, enabling them to detect food from a distance. Smell is – usually – a relia...
For over a decade, scientists at Manaaki Whenua have been developing and improving methods to map agricultural land-use and crop type usi...
Manaaki Taiao is a rōpū (group) made up of Manaaki Whenua Kairangahau Māori (Māori researchers) working on Māori-led research projects wi...
Long-term palaeoecological and climate reconstructions provide baseline information to show how species and ecosystems have responded to ...
Since 2015, research organisations across New Zealand have contributed to a growing national cache of environmental reporting data under ...
New Zealand is a highly dynamic, multihazard environment, including coastal, riverine, and seismic landscape hazards. Manaaki Whenua’s so...
S-map Online provides the best available soil resource data for New Zealand and, in doing so, underpins the government’s roadmap for the ...
Soil pH indicates the relative acidity or alkalinity of a soil, and significantly influences various soil functions, soil quality and fer...
Regenerative agriculture has been proposed as a solution for some of New Zealand’s most acute challenges. Advocates suggest it can improv...
Established in 1964, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species (www. iucnredlist.org) is a...
During the year researchers at Manaaki Whenua contributed to the first special issue of the [New Zealand Journal of Ecology], focusing on...
In March 2020 the New Zealand and Australian governments approved funding for the Pacific Seeds for Life (PS4L) project, in partnership w...
Brown kiwi ([Apteryx mantelli]) are highly vulnerable to extinction in the wild, with populations currently in serious decline. Even thou...
New Zealand is a world leader in controlling and, in some areas, eradicating invasive mammalian predators. Much of that innovation has be...
Collaboration and communication are the key to success in solving some of our most complex environmental problems. The Beyond Myrtle Rust...
Assembled by teams of New Zealand scientists working with international collaborators, the complete genome of the stoat (Mustela erminea)...
In the past 6 years more than half a million hectares of New Zealand’s land cover has changed, according to the latest version of New Zea...
Regenerative agriculture (regen ag), a term first coined in the 1970s, applies an adaptive ecological approach to agricultural landscape ...
Over the past 15 years S-map has transformed soil survey in New Zealand, from a mix of hard-copy soil maps and bulletins and a few region...
For decades, soil scientists from Manaaki Whenua have been visiting Pacific Island countries and territories (PICTs) to collect soil samp...
For Māori, elements of ecosystems and their linkages form the basis of whakapapa (ancestry) and kaitiakitanga (guardianship/management) p...
Iwi and conservation groups throughout the country can now track and plan the conservation progress of native taonga species in their roh...
Over the coming decades changes in climate are likely to have serious effects on New Zealand’s productive land environments. The Intergov...
Scientists have long recognised that one of their biggest challenges is how to translate their recommendations into lasting management an...
The recent increase in environmental regulations in New Zealand, including the National Policy Statements for Freshwater Management (2013...
Every year, under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement, New Zealand is obliged to report its...
A renewed New Zealand Government focus on climate change in the past 3 years has sought to identify future research needs to address gaps...
![A Kowhai pathogen, initially identified as [Fusarium lateritium], a benign secondary invader of stressed plant tissue. DNA analysis showed it was [F. avenaceum], a pathogen also associated with head blight of wheat.](/assets/Publications/Putaiao/Putaiao-Issue-4/icmp20675_1__FillMaxWzMwMCwyMDBd.jpg)
![Male wasp nest beetle ([Metoecus paradoxus])](/assets/Publications/Putaiao/Putaiao-Issue-8/Metoecus-paradoxus-male__FillMaxWzMwMCwyMDBd.jpg)
![Tea tree fingers ([Hypocreopsis amplectens]) – a critically endangered fungus.](/assets/Publications/Innovation-stories/Hypocreopsis-amplectens-linking-v2__FillMaxWzMwMCwyMDBd.jpg)
