Empowering Communities

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

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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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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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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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Crazy & Ambitious 3 – 2022

A playlist of presentations given at New Zealand’s Biological Heritage Science Challenge online conference, Crazy & Ambitious 3. 24 – 27 May 2022. This event…
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Te mauri o te Kauri me te ngahere

Ko te Kauri he rākau rongonui, he rākau rangatira puta noa i Te Tai Tokerau. The Kauri (Agatha australis) is a chiefly tree that represents…
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Maara Tautāne

Learn more out about the Māra Tautāne through this e-book that was created for the unveiling ceremony. Also see: https://www.mobilisingforaction.nz/research-ra1-2/#resources
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WEBPAGE: Being Manuhiri – Resources for environment and recreation organisations

Several favourite walking, tramping, cycling, kayaking, and boating spots in Aotearoa NZ are now co-managed by Māori organisations and government agencies. These co-governance and co-management…
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Fragmentation and Values: Reflections on postcoloniality research in Aotearoa/New Zealand and Cymru/Wales

Presentation by Dr Sara Mac-Bride-Stewart, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University PhD symposium, Amgueddfa Cymru / Wales, 29 June 2023.
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Bringing the ‘Trickster’ wasp into the Discourse on Biotechnological Controls of “Pest Wasps”

Last year the New Zealand Government’s announcement of a “Predator Free NZ 2050” was accompanied by a target for a significant scientific breakthrough capable of…
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A representation of a Tuawhenua worldview guides environmental conservation

Cultural expressions related to the kererū demonstrated the cultural significance of the bird to Tuawhenua that went well beyond the ecological and intrinsic value of the species. The Tuawhenua worldview…
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The roles of non-production vegetation in agroecosystems: A research framework for filling process knowledge gaps in a social-ecological context

To fill key research gaps that will inform the use of non-production vegetation to enhance agroecosystem processes, we present a framework for future research that…
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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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Changing Governance Systems: Biodiversity Instruments

Melanie Mark Shadbolt, Kaihautū Ngātahi for the Bioheritage National Science Challenge discusses the importance of changing governance and funding systems at the launch in Wellington.
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