Empowering Communities

How do we best enable local communities to protect their whenua?

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BRIEF: What characterises a good biosecurity decision? – Best practice from stakeholder and expert interviews

Research carried out with key stakeholders identified the most important elements that make up good decision-making. Drawn from in-depth interviews with over three dozen key…
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Webinar

Barcoding technologies and pipelines

Wananga 4: Barcoding technologies and pipelines Te Tiriti-guided national DNA reference library wānanga series**   Facilitators: Dr Manpreet Dhami; Manaaki Whenua and Dr Leilani Walker…
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Crazy & Ambitious 4: Eco-index tech toolkit

Online presentations from Crazy & Ambitious 4: Eco-Index tech toolkit optimising biodiversity impact, with Kiri Joy Wallace, John Reid, Catherine Kirby and Corey Ruha.
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Crazy & Ambitious 4: Restorative – Collective Action

Online presentation from Crazy & Ambitious 4: Restorative – Collective Action, with Kiely McFarlane, Cawthron Institute
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Decolonising Kew

A presentation given by Aroha Mead as part of the Kew Gardens Webinar Series.
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Oranga Programme – Values Based Measurement (Kauri and Tohorā Metaphors)

The Oranga Theme is a multi-year research programme comprising of five projects with the primary purpose of promoting kauri and myrtle ora, while highlighting Māori-led…
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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,…
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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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BRIEF: Toitū te Ngahere

Mobilising for Action’s Toitū te Ngahere (TTN) project partnered with five primary schools, in Auckland and on Aotea Great Barrier Island, to create children’s art…
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What Does The Ideal Forest Biosecurity System Look Like?

This visual graphic was developed for a policy workshop with Auckland Council to outline concerns community had raised about how they would like to be…
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Publication

Invasive alien species: denialism, disagreement, definitions, and dialogue

We recently suggested in TREE that recent elements of invasion biology discourse might be categorised as cases of more general science denialism. We did not intend…
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How do we restore New Zealand’s biological heritage by 2050?

If we are to make meaningful and measurable progress in restoring New Zealand’s biological heritage by 2050, a range of fundamental issues need to be…
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Report

Rationale for a minimum 15% ecosystem land cover target

The Eco-index team developed a 2121 National Biodiversity Vision that sets long-term goals to Protect, Restore and Connect native ecosystems in Aotearoa New Zealand by…
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Publication

The impact of remote sensing on monitoring and reporting – The case of conformance systems

The rapid development of remote sensing technologies (such as airborne, unmanned aerial vehicles and terrestrial sensors) as surveillance tools to monitor the environment exposes firms,…
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Publication

Walking, Sensing, Knowing: An Ethnography on Foot Around Forest Biosecurity Interventions in Te-Ika-ā-Māui

Walking has gained prominence in social sciences as a source of inspiration for scholarly narratives and methodological experimentation with embodied ways of knowing. Walking across…
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Public Rāhui and Road Blocks in Aotearoa: Navigating Iwi/Hapū Perspectives and Mana Motuhake

During the COVID-19 pandemic there have been wide-spread public debates over public access for walkers, cyclists and vehicles in relation to the land rights and…
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