Empowering Communities

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

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End use cases of reference databases

Wananga 1: End use cases of reference databases Te Tiriti-guided national DNA reference library wānanga series   Facilitators: Dr Susie Wood (Cawthron) & Dr Shaun…
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Collective approaches to regeneration

A two-page summary of the report of the same name found HERE. More and more people are wanting to increase the impact of their environmental restoration…
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Crazy & Ambitious 4: A values-based biosecurity risk assessment framework

Online presentation from Crazy & Ambitious 4: A values-based biosecurity risk assessment framework, with John Kean, AgResearch.
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Te W’are o Ngā Manu Kōrero

Te W’are o Ngā Manu Kōrero – ‘e pukapuka tēnei e kōrero and mō ngā kaupapa tiaki mounga o Taranaki Mounga Project. Kua tu’ia ngā…
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Report

Affirming Connections and Growing Kaitiakitanga for Healthy Ngahere

This report documents the visit and collaboration that occurred in March 2024 between Rongomaiwahine and Ngāti Hine, which supported the cultural systems and people that…
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Crazy & Ambitious – 2017

A playlist of presentations given at New Zealand’s Biological Heritage Science Challenge inaugural conference, Crazy & Ambitious. 8-10 May 2017, Te Papa Wellington
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Kānuka and whānau of the Whareponga Valley – He taonga kē te ngahere team

Kānuka is a taonga species. Endemic to Aotearoa New Zealand, this plant (also known as Kunzea ericoides) is part of the myrtaceae family and is…
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Te Māra Tautāne

Te Māra Tautāne is a collaborative research project between hapū members of Te Māhurehure in the Rūātoki Valley, and researchers at the Centre for Indigenous…
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Toitū te Ngahere Lesson Plan

Toitū te Ngahere, the Arts in Schools for Forest Health project, was a collaborative research project involving university researchers, five primary schools and their communities,…
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Dots Mark the Spot

On the footsteps of kauri forest users with bingo dabbers — a novel participatory mapping method with Aotearoa’s park rangers. A storymap outlining research where,…
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Landholder participation in regional-scale control of invasive predators: an adaptable landscape model

We developed a spatially explicit model to estimate the effects of varying levels of landholder participation in landscape-scale programs to control invasive predators. We demonstrate…
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Reversing the decline in NZ’s biodiversity: empowering Māori within reformed conservation law.

Creating new conservation law that more holistically and comprehensively supports hapū and iwi leadership in conservation management should be embraced as a critical step towards…
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How to talk about co-governance of our bioheritage

November 2021   The Adaptive Governance & Policy team aims to ‘break the mould’ and build new systems, policies and capability that will provide much…
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The Naturalisation of Finance: Biodiversity Instruments Launch, Wellington

Co-Author of Concept Paper ‘Biodiversity Instruments’ David Hall speaks at the launch in Wellington.
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Understanding divergent perspectives on introduced trout in Aotearoa: a relational values approach

To make coherent and just choices about introduced species management in postcolonial contexts such as Aotearoa, a nuanced understanding of human relationships to introduced species…
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‘Pūrākau o te Ngahere’: Indigenous Māori Interpretations, Expressions and Connection to Taonga Species and Biosecurity Issues

The utility of mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledges) in Aotearoa|New Zealand Forest conservation is not particularly visible in research and policy. Indeed, current forest biosecurity processes…
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