High-Tech Solutions To Invasive Mammal Pests
This research team is helping to develop targeted, next-generation, socially acceptable and cost-effective new technologies to achieve landscape-scale freedom from rats, stoats and possums.
Biosecurity - Control
Once pests have become established, how can we best control or eradicate them?
Supporting a Predator Free 2050
Novel tools, technologies and strategies need to be deployed to eradicate biotic threats.
Mobile Apps to Keep New Zealand Safe
Mobile technologies are being developed to help New Zealanders report suspected biosecurity threats, with the first step being a bilingual app that helps identify myrtle…
Public Perceptions of New Pest Control Methods
One of the nation’s largest surveys on public attitudes toward new pest control technologies has shown that most New Zealanders support the need for pest…
Novel Tools and Strategies
Novel tools, technologies and strategies need to be deployed to eradicate biotic threats.
Whakawātea Riha Rāwaho
Māori solutions to biosecurity threats may be the key to combating the serious fungal disease myrtle rust.
Invertebrates
Novel tools, technologies and strategies need to be deployed to eradicate biotic threats.
Stopping Kauri Dieback in its Tracks
Selected native plant extracts may be able to attract and kill the spores of Phytophthora agathidicida – the pathogen causing kauri dieback, according to researchers.
Biosecurity Network Interventions
The spread of pests, weeds and pathogens into Aotearoa is a major cause of the decline of its biological heritage. This includes profitability of agriculture,…
Taking the Sting out of the Common Wasp
Large-scale eradication may be in store for the humble wasp – a species responsible for one of the worst pest problems in Aotearoa.
eDNA For Environmental Monitoring
In a New Zealand first, researchers have developed a nationwide database to integrate and share eDNA data to allow biological diversity across our diverse landscapes…
Combating Pathogen Risk Using Genomics
To protect our native and production ecosystems from the invasion of new pathogens, rapid assessments of the potential impact of identified and unidentified pathogens are…
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