Empowering Communities

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

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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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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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Webinar

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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Video

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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Report

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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Publication

The Differential Psychology of Environmental Protection/Exploitation

This article reviews and discusses available evidence on key individual differences associated with protection and exploitation of the natural environment. The discussion centers on personality…
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Media

Biodiversity brought to Fonterra farms

A new project supported by Fonterra’s Living Water Partnership with the Department of Conservation will help on-farm advisors grow their understanding of biodiversity, with a…
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Publication

Restoring mature-phase forest tree species through enrichment planting in New Zealand’s lowland landscapes 

To restore secondary forests, depauperate remnant forests and create new forests that have complex structure, high biomass, and natural canopy tree diversity, mature-phase canopy and…
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A joint declaration regarding a unified approach to: Principles of Environmental Data Architecture in Aotearoa NZ

On 10 August, 2021, the Biological Heritage National Science Challenge’s Eco-index programme facilitated an online workshop across various government agencies, universities, CRIs, councils and businesses…
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