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Realising rangatiratanga to support kaitiakitanga and kaitiaki-led monitoring and reporting systems

In August 2020, New Zealand’s Cabinet approved ‘Te Mana o te Taiao – Aotearoa New Zealand Biodiversity Strategy 2020’ as the strategic framework for biodiversity…

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BRIEF: What Do We Need to Do to Protect and Restore Urban Freshwater Systems?

What are the behaviours that create the most significant impact when it comes to reducing stormwater pollution and helping improve waterway habitats in cities and…

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BRIEF: Social discounting – Giving a voice to future generations and environments.

For environmental decisions, we need discounting practices that value the future in the way that societies, rather than businesses, think about the future: we need…

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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…

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Farming with Native Biodiversity – Rauropi Māori me ahuwhenua

We believe farming can help Aotearoa New Zealand’s natural environment thrive. And this is essential to us all thriving. Our goal is to develop…

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Webinar

Crazy & Ambitious 4: Social-ecological relationships driving ecosystem regeneration

Online presentation from Crazy & Ambitious 4: Social-ecological relationships driving ecosystem regeneration, with Danielle Shanahan, Zealandia and Joanne Clapcott, Cawthron Institute.

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Te Mana Motuhake o te kākano: what seed sovereignty means for us.

Melanie Mark-Shadbolt (Ngāti Kahungunu, Rangitane, Ngāti Porou, Te Arawa, Ngāti Raukawa, Tūwharetoa, Whakatohea, Te Ātiawa) an indigenous environmental advocate who is a co-founder and trustee…

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Oranga Programme – Project Reflections on Outcomes and Impacts

This report outlines the results of reflective conversations with each of the Oranga Programme mātauranga based Project team leads. Specifically, these Projects include: RA1 –…

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Protocols for the ethical safe storage of taonga seeds

At the highest level, the focus of seed banking should be on establishing a system which best benefits te taiao. To do this, Māori must…

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Toitoi Manawa – Myrtle Ora Surveillance, Monitoring and Management Strategy

Myrtle Rust impacts on our environment but is also impacted on our native and natural eco- systems. Our strategy plan, “Toitoi Manawa” means to motivate,…

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Video

Myrtle Rust – an alternative perspective

Using Māori narrative to explore an alternative perspective of myrtle rust. A video created by Mark Winter, The Sandman.

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Mate Tipu Mate Rākau

Mate Tipu, Mate Rākau follows Department of Conservation Ranger Graeme Atkins (Ngāti Porou, Rongomaiwahine), as he reveals the rapid devastation that the airborne fungal pathogen…

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Publication

Clashing epistemologies and contrasting injustice: an Aotearoa/ New Zealand case

How, as researchers, do we recognise and address the implicit biases when engaging across multiple knowledge ecologies. In this paper, we consider the way historical…

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Publication

The rise of invasive species denialism

Scientific consensus on the negative impacts of invasive alien species (IAS) is increasingly being challenged. Whereas informed scepticism of impacts is important, science denialism is…

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Key biocultural values to guide restoration action and planning in New Zealand

A pluralist and cross-cultural approach that accommodates differing values while encouraging the collaboration and social cohesion necessary for the complex task of ecological restoration is…

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Voicing stakeholder visions for biodiversity indicators: a framework using content analysis

Aotearoa New Zealand’s Eco-index research programme is developing a 100-year national biodiversity vision. The purpose of the vision is to establish a concrete restoration goal that…

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Realising rangatiratanga to support kaitiakitanga and kaitiaki-led monitoring and reporting systems

BRIEF: What Do We Need to Do to Protect and Restore Urban Freshwater Systems?

BRIEF: Social discounting – Giving a voice to future generations and environments.

Database architecture, process, and pathways

Farming with Native Biodiversity – Rauropi Māori me ahuwhenua

Crazy & Ambitious 4: Social-ecological relationships driving ecosystem regeneration

Te Mana Motuhake o te kākano: what seed sovereignty means for us.

Oranga Programme – Project Reflections on Outcomes and Impacts

Protocols for the ethical safe storage of taonga seeds

Toitoi Manawa – Myrtle Ora Surveillance, Monitoring and Management Strategy

Myrtle Rust – an alternative perspective

Mate Tipu Mate Rākau

Clashing epistemologies and contrasting injustice: an Aotearoa/ New Zealand case

The rise of invasive species denialism

Key biocultural values to guide restoration action and planning in New Zealand

Voicing stakeholder visions for biodiversity indicators: a framework using content analysis

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