Biological Heritage

Our Objective – Ngā whainga

Working to protect Aotearoa’s biodiversity, improve biosecurity and enhance resilience to harmful pests, weeds and diseases
Whakamana

Helping New Zealanders protect our precious environment.

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Tiaki

Contributing to world class biosecurity

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Whakahou

Creating a resilient, thriving environment

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More knowledge is urgently needed to underpin future approaches and tools to fight these plant diseases.

We’re striving to deliver a breakthrough solution that will control or eradicate at least one pest from mainland Aotearoa.

Our approach blends Mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge) with modern research methods.

We’re working to remove or mitigate known priority threats, and improve the prediction of threats emerging globally.

June Newsletter – Ngā Rākau Taketake

Preliminary myrtle rust results, lockdown science, PhD research on soil microbiota and much more . . .

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Studying the response of the forest soil microbiota to kauri dieback

Alexa Byers writes about her PhD research into kauri dieback and soil microbiota

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‘Home gardening’ during lockdown

Hoa Nguyen had to improvise to save part of her PhD during lockdown,

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Our Objective – Ngā whainga