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  • 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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Kauri Dieback & Myrtle Rust

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

Predators & Pests

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

Mātauranga Māori

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

Biosecurity

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

    Read about honeybees collecting myrtle rust, a Ngā Rākau Taketake host susceptibility trial and much more…

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  • Profile: Dr Beccy Ganley

    Hailing from Plant and Food Research, Beccy brings to the team a long history of working in the myrtle rust and kauri dieback research space, making her an excellent candidate for the NRT Science Leader role.   

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  • Honeybees observed harvesting myrtle rust

    An observation of bees harvesting myrtle rust spores in Auckland has recently been reported – a behaviour which is concerning to scientists.

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Our Goals

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Whakamana

Helping New Zealanders protect our precious environment

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Protect

Tiaki

Contributing to world class biosecurity

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Restore

Whakahou

Creating a resilient, thriving environment

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