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New initiative supporting farmers to protect and restore native biodiversity
An innovative new pilot project aims to make it easier for pastoral farmers to protect and restore native biodiversity on their farms.
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Third Flagship site for BioHeritage
We've joined an award-winning Port of Tauranga biosecurity partnership that is committed to biosecurity excellence.
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Bioethics panel
However, moving any new control measures from the lab to the landscape is as much a social challenge as it is a biological challenge. Researchers need to find ways to…
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Introducing Dr Fabien Medvecky
Dr Fabien Medvecky is working with the Ngā Rākau Taketake – Mobilising for Action team. We sat down to have a chat about his work.
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Better Border Biosecurity (B3) research collaboration - July updates
By Better Border Biosecurity. Five new projects will be fully funded and one partially funded by B3 following a competitive process that involved identifying key gaps in its research agenda.…
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Unlocking Curious Minds
The Unlocking Curious Minds (UCM) fund will be opening in mid-July, to encourage and enable better engagement with science and technology across all of New Zealand.
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A Restoration Ambassador for rural New Zealand
Farmers will soon have access to free, independent advice about how to conserve native biodiversity on their land.
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Teaching youth about native plants and animals
North Island rangatahi will test a new app that connects them with the environment by teaching them about plants and animals.
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A new researcher takes the reins at Scion
Dr Stuart Fraser is in the thick of his first field season leading the myrtle rust team at Scion. We sat down with him to get his insights on the disease in Aotearoa and abroad.
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Horror in the ngahere: myrtle rust is graphic novel's 'big bad'
With The Last of Us making cordyceps a household name, and many other evil moulds creeping through our screens and libraries, it seems that fungi and horror are a match made in… hell.Aroha Novak (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāi Te Rangi) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Ōtepoti Dunedin and has added fertiliser to the fungal horror garden with her graphic novel, Myrtle Rust.