Crazy & Ambitious 2 – 2019
A playlist of presentations given at New Zealand’s Biological Heritage Science Challenge conference, Crazy & Ambitious 2. 20 – 21 May 2019, Te Papa Wellington.
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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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BRIEF: Toi Taiao Whakatairanga
Toi Taiao Whakatairanga was a research project looking at how public arts practice can cultivate and grow public awareness of, and positive engagement with, kauri…
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Ancient Rongoā Māori practices to fight Kauri dieback are part of a broader revival of indigenous traditional practices in NZ
Traditional Rongoā Māori health practitioners claim indigenous treatments are curing Kauri trees of dieback and the Government is investing.
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Towards rangatiratanga in pest management? Māori perspectives and frameworks on novel biotechnologies in conservation
We gathered Māori perspectives on novel biotechnological controls for pest wasps through three distinct studies. Study participants included tertiary students, businesses, and spiritual or religiously…
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Key Māori values strengthen the mapping of forest ecosystems services
Different value-belief systems influence the importance placed upon ecosystem services (ES) and their benefits, in particular cultural ecosystem services. We mapped forest values to interview…
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Hōhā Riha: Pest Insect Control in Māori Tradition
Ongoing Māori connections to natural environments mean that tangata whenua ‘people of the land’ and mātauranga Māori ‘Māori knowledge’ must be key to identifying, designing…
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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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Steps towards authentic Te Tiriti o Waitangi relationships at a local government level
The Review into the Future for Local Government (The Review) is an independent review exploring new approaches to local governance where communities can “prosper and…
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Oranga Programme – Critical Friend Measurement Framework 2022
The purpose of this framework is to help us measure progress at the Oranga Program level. This means that the contents of this report, although…
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Reimagining governance for ‘Yellowstone’ modelled national parks in the new era of indigenous legal recognition
National parks provide an ideal locale for considering Indigenous customary rights and interests in modern landscapes. This is particularly true for national parks modelled on…
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Empowering an indigenous perspective
A keynote presentation in the ICPP2023: Plant Pathology in a One Health World session. Many hundreds of pests and pathogens have been introduced, either…
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Te Whakahononga – Episode 2
Te Whakahononga provided an opportunity and recognition for kaumatua, puna matauranga and tohunga to engage with emerging Māori tauira (students), rangatahi (youth) and Western scientists.…
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Ngāti Mutanga Pōhutukawa
An ArcGIS storymap created by the Ngāti Mutanga Biodiversity Management Area documenting the research mahi delivered through Te Whakahononga Pou and funded by Ngā Rākau…
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Relational values provide common ground and expose multi-level constraints to cross-cultural wetland management
The unprecedented level of threat facing many of the world’s natural and cultural systems calls for the collaboration of multiple interest groups to engage in…
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Te ao Māori values associated with the environment
The complexity of Māori values around environmental matters is specifically known at the iwi and hapū level and over successive generations Māori have developed thorough…
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