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.

November newsletter

Films, posters, webinars and research.

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The Beyond Myrtle Rust story map is here!

We’ve been hard at work articulating and illustrating what we are up to at Beyond Myrtle Rust. Here is our story.

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Vladislav Kholostiakov, plant whisperer

Beyond Myrtle Rust would like to introduce and welcome our newest PhD student, Vladislav Kholostiakov, to the broader myrtle rust community.

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Our Objective – Ngā whainga