A letter written and published in response to the report “One -third of global protected land is under intense human pressure”, discussing that the index…
Community organisations have come to play a key role in biodiversity conservation and restoration over the last 30 years, with thousands of volunteer and kaitiaki…
Marsh A, Parata H, Ashby T. 2023. A round table exploration of Indigenous rights and participation in plant pathology. International Congress of Plant Pathology. 21/08/2023…
Now more than ever, creative solutions that bring together diverse ways of knowing and seeing the world are needed to restore and enhance biocultural diversity…
Community-based restoration and regeneration are increasingly common pathways for collective action on interconnected social and environmental issues. As community initiatives gain pace, the need for…
The unprecedented level of threat facing many of the world’s natural and cultural systems calls for the collaboration of multiple interest groups to engage in…
The generalizable functional attributes of organisms (traits) relate strongly to their environment across multiple levels of biological organization, making trait-based approaches a powerful mechanistic framework…
Network science has revealed that the architecture of many complex biological, physical, and social systems facilitates the direct and indirect propagation of disturbances. Ecological disturbances,…
While global climate change is impacting biota across the world, New Zealand’s maritime climate is highly variable and relatively mild, so climate change is sometimes…
Situating Māori Ecological Knowledge (MEK) within traditional environmental knowledge (TEK) frameworks, this book recognizes that indigenous ecological knowledge contributes to our understanding of how we…
New Zealander’s care greatly about nature, and each year communities and likeminded individuals show the power of collective efforts: In some suburbs, as many as…
The Ministry for the Environment, Department of Conservation, and the Biological Heritage National Science Challenge co-funded research to look at contemporary losses of wetland extent…
Online presentation from Crazy & Ambitious 4: Kanakana ki Mataura, with Riki Parata, Hannah Thorburn and Luka Whaitiri Finn, Hokonui Rūnanga Kaupapa Taiao.
Conversations with six myrtle rust experts from Scion, Plant and Food and Beyond Myrtle Rust Commissioned by Centre for Indigenous Psychologies, and He Taonga Kē…