Toitū te Ngahere: Art in Schools for Forest Health (TTN) was part of the research theme Mobilising for Action within Ngā Rākau Taketake. TTN was responding to the explicit call in the biosecurity space for “everybody” in Aotearoa to be involved in biosecurity. The team recognised the lack of opportunity for children and young people […]
Month: May 2024
Toitū te Ngahere: Biosecurity is for everyone
Kauri Rescue continues their work
Kauri Rescue is a community activation that formed around a successful funding bid in 2016 during Tranche 1 of the BioHeritage National Science Challenge. Tiaki mō Kauri: Community Control of Kauri Dieback, which became Kauri Rescue, was started to treat diseased kauri on private land. Kauri Rescue was able to continue beyond the end of […]
Ngā Pī Ka Rere spotlight: PhD candidate champions RNAi research in Washington
Looking to deliver a gripping presentation at your next conference? Te Herenga Waka PhD candidate Rose McGruddy is happy to share her prize-winning approach . . . “I try to make my presentations as easy to digest as possible,” says Rose. “I avoid jargon. I use a lot of pictures. I keep in mind that […]
Learning from restoration collectives
Social scientist Kiely McFarlane (Cawthron Institute) has a background in environmental geography and governance. Understanding and supporting community groups has been central to Kiely’s involvement with the Challenge. During Tranche 1, Kiely, along with Kiri Joy Wallace, Joanne Clapcott and Danielle Shanahan, interviewed 27 restoration collectives around the country to understand what types of organisations […]
A clearer outlook on the future of plant invasions
Back in December 2022, we spoke with Jennifer Bufford about the two-phase horizon scan to identify future needs in weed research. The first phase, which is now complete, involved identifying a range of possible futures (or “scenarios”) for New Zealand. These scenarios are presented more fully in this newsletter article from 2023 and are discussed in a […]
BioHeritage may be ending, but our website and data repository will live on
Complete/incomplete work Much of the work funded and supported by BioHeritage is now complete. However, there are still some students who will continue to be funded through to the end of the year and many publications have been prepared and submitted that will only be published in the months to come. Any outputs that are […]