The BioHeritage Challenge aims to not just create impact while the projects are running, but to catalyse new collaborations far beyond the lifetime of the original programmes.
The BioHeritage Challenge aims to not just create impact while the projects are running, but to catalyse new collaborations far beyond the lifetime of the original programmes.
Despite physical improvements, degraded aquatic communities in restored streams tend to persist.
The challenge are excited to be contributing to developing a quality assurance framework for citizen science data. Read more here.
University of Canterbury student Amy van Lindt has been researching the potential role freshwater crayfish could play in stream restoration, and has found some interesting results.
New research on pest control, updates from Better Border Biosecurity, our cross-challenge wānanga and more . . .
PhD student Tom Moore discusses his research on the impacts of invasive aquatic weeds on kākahi (freshwater mussels).
University of Canterbury PhD student Issie Barrett writes about ecological tipping points, and why some restoration projects don’t always go as planned.
University of Waikato PhD candidate Tom Moore investigates the housing crisis of taonga species kākahi.
Early career researchers are normally associated with uncertainty: short-term contracts, a need for experience, but few opportunities to get any.
Many of New Zealand’s groundwater species are “short-range endemics” – being unique species restricted to areas as small as a single catchment.