Empowering Communities

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

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Environmental stewardship: A systematic scoping review

Environmental stewardship is a term describing both the philosophy and the actions required to protect, restore, and sustainably use natural resources for the future benefit…
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Possibilities for Resourcing Rangatiratanga

This report considers possible sources of finance the Crown might consider to support Māori rangatiratanga in biodiversity protection.   Section One provides context on the…
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BRIEF: Supporting native biodiversity management on farms

Farmers can play an important part in caring for and revitalising our natural environment. This pilot project bridged the gap between science and farm systems…
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BRIEF: Encouraging the Installation of Rainwater Tanks in Urban Areas

Installing rainwater tanks is seen as a desirable decision by a household to help improve freshwater management in cities and urban areas. This research identifies…
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BRIEF: Genetic Technologies and our environment – A public deliberation

How do you engage New Zealanders on important and complex issues, and encourage conversation, particularly around new technology advances to address environmental problems and the…
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Data governance and sovereignty

Wānanga 6: Data governance and sovereignty. Te Tiriti-guided national DNA reference library wānanga series   Facilitators: Holden Hohaia, Ngāti Maru, Taranaki Whānui ki te Upoko…
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Crazy & Ambitious 4: Helping communities realise their biological heritage aspirations

Online presentations from Crazy & Ambitious 4: Helping communities realise their biological heritage aspirations, with Jane Kitson, Pike Stahlmann-Brown, Nathan Matamua and Lynette Rogers, Marina…
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Crazy & Ambitious 4: Kanakana ki Mataura

Online presentation from Crazy & Ambitious 4: Kanakana ki Mataura, with Riki Parata, Hannah Thorburn and Luka Whaitiri Finn, Hokonui Rūnanga Kaupapa Taiao.
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WEBPAGE: Whare Taonga | Seed Banking

A Te Tira Whakamataki webpage providing information and resources on seed banking: What is Seed Banking (video) The Hub and Spoke Model – Te Tira…
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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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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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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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