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The climate crisis is also a biodiversity crisis
Like many of us, the summer break has seen me transfixed with horror at the scale and magnitude of the bushfire crisis in Australia.
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How can we best use genomics to enhance conservation translocations?
The best way to build resilience in threatened species is often debated, but do we even know how to measure what we're trying to compare?
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Host, Pathogen & Environment
Students Tyler Johns – University of Canterbury Honours student News 2020
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Cutting-edge technology to help mahinga kai species
A complete ‘platinum-standard’ reference genome could help the conservation, commercial and customary harvest of a treasured mahinga kai species.
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Relational values provide common ground and expose multi-level constraints to cross-cultural wetland management
The Challenge is pleased to be able to support Corinne Bataille in her ongoing commitment to working with tangata tiaki and growing valuable social-ecological research capacity in Aotearoa New Zealand.
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Training up Stink Bug finders
Field trips designed to teach students about the science behind protecting New Zealand's primary industries such as kiwifruit production.
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Understanding Māori values to guide forest management
Understanding and balancing community values associated with managing a forest is a challenge facing a Māori group in the North Island.
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Collective action for the Ōpāwaho River
Ed Challies (University of Canterbury) and Miria Goodwin (Ōpāwaho Heathcote River Network) are interested in the rich tapestries of environmental care in Aotearoa, and are exploring these fabrics in their Pathways to Ecosystem Regeneration project. Ed and Miria discussed the Ōpāwaho Heathcote River Network, and the challenges and rewards of collective action with BioHeritage writer Kerry Donovan Brown.
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Collaborative research on hybrid species receives Marsden Fund grant
Aisling co-leads BioHeritage’s early career group Ngā Pī Ka Rere with Symon Palmer and Dr Helen Warburton, a research area in Freshwater for Our Taonga with Dr Matthew Wylie, and a research project in…
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Goals for our Strategic Outcomes
During the Tranche 2 scoping process each Strategic Outcome (SO) group was tasked with figuring out what the primary goals should be in their space. They relied on the breadth of knowledge and experience in the room, as well as consulting extensively with stakeholders and partners.
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Shining a light on New Zealand's moths
With the support of the BioHeritage Challenge, Ahi Pepe | MothNet has produced a suite of guides and classroom activities about New Zealand’s moths and distributed them to every school and public…
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Ngā Pī Ka Rere: Early Careers who are #OpenToWork
Here are some details on a few of our rising stars, and the types of opportunities they are seeking and where they are hoping to work: Ally Palmer, social scientist…
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Updates from SO1: Eco-index
The team behind SO1 has been expanding, and they're on the search for a Data Infrastructure Engineer.
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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…