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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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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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Promoting social and environmental justice to support Indigenous partnerships in urban ecosystem restoration

Urban ecological restoration typically employs western science approaches to restore degraded ecosystems. As yet, few restoration groups acknowledge the history of these degraded urban sites,…
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He Taonga Kē Ngā Kaumātua: Kaumātua Perspectives of te Taiao, Ngahere and Taonga Species

Māori cultural beliefs, values and practices are intimately connected to te taiao, the natural environment. While te taiao is of unique cultural significance, contemporary Māori…
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Positioning Research to Improve Tree-Biosecurity Relations

Management of biosecurity threats to forests and indigenous trees needs to address the legacy of colonising practices that have prohibited diverse knowledges from being included.…
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Healing Fragmentation of Forest Biosecurity Networks: A Conceptual and Reflexive Mapping Analysis of Postcolonial Relations that Matter in Aotearoa|New Zealand and Cymru|Wales

Scientific biosecurity has become an important approach for managing the threats to Kauri trees and plant management in Aotearoa|New Zealand and Cymru|Wales, more generally. However,…
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Collective approaches to ecosystem regeneration in Aotearoa – Summary

More and more people are wanting to increase the impact of their environmental restoration efforts. This could be by joining up with other groups, increasing…
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The (social) science of Te Whakahononga – Leane Makey

Presented as part of the Kaurilands Summit 2023, hosted by Ngā Rākau Taketake.   To find out more about Te Whakahononga please click the link…
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Bacteria as Emerging Indicators of Soil Condition

Bacterial communities are important for the health and productivity of soil ecosystems and have great potential as novel indicators of environmental perturbations. To assess how…
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Towards robust and repeatable sampling methods in eDNA‐based studies

DNA-based techniques are increasingly used for measuring the biodiversity (species presence, identity, abundance and community composition) of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. While there are numerous…
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What does myrtle rust resilience look like for Māori?

The fungus that causes myrtle rust, Austropuccinia psidii, arrived in New Zealand in 2017. To date, it has been recorded infecting many ecologically, culturally, and…
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Empowering Ethical Indigenous Research and Engaging Youth

Presented by Oranga researchers Marcus-Rongowhitiao Shadbolt & Michael Heimlick, as part of the Kaurilands Summit 2023, hosted by Ngā Rākau Taketake.
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Centring Indigenous knowledge systems to re-imagine conservation translocations

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…
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Invasion disharmony in the global biogeography of native and non-native beetle species

Aim The concept of “island disharmony” has been widely applied to describe the systematic over- and under-representation of taxa on islands compared to mainland regions.…
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