BRIEF: Unlocking collective wisdom
Shared learning with Te Taiao Collectives Network Across Aotearoa New Zealand, collectives of community groups, iwi, hapū, councils, and others are joining forces to protect…
Biosecurity - Control
Once pests have become established, how can we best control or eradicate them?
Policy Briefing
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Literature review of risk assessment and decision making frameworks
The research programme “He Tangata, He Taiao, He Ōhanga (Strategic Outcome 3, New Zealand’s Biological Heritage National Science Challenge) aims to incorporate information from a…
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BRIEF: TrapSim Plus
Supporting informed decision-making in community predator control planning Predator control groups face the challenge of having to choose which control methods and efforts to use,…
Webinar
Database architecture, process, and pathways
Wananga 3: Database architecture, process, and pathways Te Tiriti-guided national DNA reference library wānanga series Facilitators: Dr David Medyckyj-Scott (Manaaki Whenua) & Nick Spencer…
Publication
THESIS: Novel biotechnological controls for social wasp eradication: Exploring religious and spiritual Māori perceptions using a Q-Method and kaupapa Māori methodology
This thesis explores the perceptions religious and/or spiritual Māori have about five biotechnological controls proposed for the eradication of the Vespula germanica (German) and Vespula vulgaris (common) wasp-species in…
Publication
Tohora rāo ko Kauri
Tohora rāo ko Kauri – he pukapuka tēnei e kōrero ana mō te hononga i waenga i te tohorā me te kauri. Anei ngā kōrero…
Webinar
Crazy & Ambitious 4 – 2024
A playlist of presentations given at New Zealand’s Biological Heritage Science Challenge conference, Crazy & Ambitious 3. 24 – 27 May 2022, at Te Papa,…
Media
Pests invaluable research material
Not many people welcome the discovery of wasp nests, but they are providing invaluable research material for two Dunedin students. University of Otago genetics PhD…
Report
The use of AI (artificial intelligence) in New Zealand for the sorting of images and classification of animal pest species
This report has been commissioned by the Biological Heritage Challenge to review the current development and use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for sorting and classifying…
Publication
Mitonuclear interactions, mtDNA-mediated thermal plasticity and implications for the Trojan Female Technique for pest control
Here we test whether the male-sterilizing effects previously associated with the mt:Cyt-b mutation are consistent across three thermal and three nuclear genomic contexts. The effects of this…
Publication
New Zealand shouldn’t ignore feral cats
A letter to BioScience: A publication in Nature (Owens 2017) attracted our attention recently. The article refers to the ambitious, arduous, and encouraging plan to…
Media
‘Instruction manual’ to kauri dieback pathogen uncovered
In a world first, researchers have decoded the genome of the pathogen that causes kauri dieback. RNZ spoke to Nari Williams (Plant & Food Research).
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Conservation & Restoration 2022
It’s a huge challenge to conserve and restore kauri and native plants vulnerable to myrtle rust for future generations. It requires Te Ao Māori world…
Publication
Gene drive and RNAi technologies: a bio-cultural review of next-generation tools for pest wasp management in New Zealand
There is a global need for novel, next-generation technologies and techniques to manage pest species. We review work on potential step-changing technologies for large landscape…
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Elevating and Recognising Knowledge of Indigenous Peoples to Improve Forest Biosecurity
Current forest biosecurity systems and processes employed in many countries are, in large, constructs of Western principles, values and science knowledge that have been introduced…
Report
Predator Free New Zealand: Social, Cultural, and Ethical Challenges
A bioethics panel was established to map out the landscape of social, ethical and cultural considerations surrounding Predator Free New Zealand. The panel was co-convened…
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