Ecosystems

Publication

Current knowledge and potential impacts of climate change on New Zealand’s biological heritage

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…

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BOOK: Indigenous Pacific Approaches to Climate Change

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…

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BRIEF: Pathways to Ecosystem Regeneration

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…

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Report

Considering a future spatial framework for wetland mapping and monitoring in New Zealand

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…

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Webinar

Crazy & Ambitious 4: Kanakana ki Mataura

Online presentation from Crazy & Ambitious 4: Kanakana ki Mataura, with Riki Parata, Hannah Thorburn and Luka Whaitiri Finn, Hokonui Rūnanga Kaupapa Taiao.

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Roles of restoration collectives – poster for digital use

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Video

How do Scientists Understand Myrtle Rust?

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…

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Publication

The Differential Psychology of Environmental Protection/Exploitation

This article reviews and discusses available evidence on key individual differences associated with protection and exploitation of the natural environment. The discussion centers on personality…

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Eradicating mammals on New Zealand island reserves: what is left to do?

In 2016, the New Zealand Government announced a policy to rid the country of key introduced predators (possums (Trichosurus vulpecula), ship rats (Rattus rattus), Norway rats…

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Presentation

Biodiversity Instruments Briefing Note

The BioHeritage Challenge and the Adaptive Governance & Policy team (S07) commissioned the Climate Innovation Lab to identify the potential for innovative finance and funding…

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Policy Briefing

Planning for tipping points and enhancing resilience in production landscapes.

KEY MESSAGES 1. A social-ecological system, which emerges when people interact with the natural environment, can cross a tipping point to a self-reinforcing degraded state,…

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Restoring mature-phase forest tree species through enrichment planting in New Zealand’s lowland landscapes

To restore secondary forests, depauperate remnant forests and create new forests that have complex structure, high biomass, and natural canopy tree diversity, mature-phase canopy and…

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Video

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…

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Webinar

Coming together to amplify ecosystem regeneration

More and more people are joining together as collectives to increase the scope and impact of their regeneration projects. When iwi, hapū, local environmental groups,…

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Media

The Eco-index research programme: Aotearoa New Zealand’s answer for effective investment in biodiversity restoration

Catherine Kirby is the Communication & Relationships Manager for the Eco-index research programme as well as Programme Manager for the People, Cities & Nature research programme, part of…

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Scientists’ Warning to Humanity on Threats to Indigenous and Local Knowledge Systems

The knowledge systems and practices of Indigenous Peoples and local communities play critical roles in safeguarding the biological and cultural diversity of our planet. Globalization,…

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Current knowledge and potential impacts of climate change on New Zealand’s biological heritage

BOOK: Indigenous Pacific Approaches to Climate Change

BRIEF: Pathways to Ecosystem Regeneration

Considering a future spatial framework for wetland mapping and monitoring in New Zealand

Crazy & Ambitious 4: Kanakana ki Mataura

Roles of restoration collectives – poster for digital use

How do Scientists Understand Myrtle Rust?

The Differential Psychology of Environmental Protection/Exploitation

Eradicating mammals on New Zealand island reserves: what is left to do?

Biodiversity Instruments Briefing Note

Planning for tipping points and enhancing resilience in production landscapes.

Restoring mature-phase forest tree species through enrichment planting in New Zealand’s lowland landscapes

Conservation & Restoration 2022

Coming together to amplify ecosystem regeneration

The Eco-index research programme: Aotearoa New Zealand’s answer for effective investment in biodiversity restoration

Scientists’ Warning to Humanity on Threats to Indigenous and Local Knowledge Systems

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