Kaupapa Māori

Research focussed on uplifting Te Ao Māori, led by Māori researchers.

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Artistic practice, public awareness, and the ngahere: art–science–Indigenous Māori collaborations for raising awareness of threats to native forests

We build a rationale for a nuanced approach to raising public awareness of ecological threats through interweaving art, science, and Mātauranga Māori (Indigenous Māori knowledge).…
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Hōhonu: Deepening Te Ao Māori within Aotearoa New Zealand’s environmental restoration work

I hangaia a Hōhonu hei tautoko i te hunga tiaki taiao. Hōhonu is a new tool to help those working in environmental stewardship, and specifically…
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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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Ngati Huarere ki Whangapoua: He toro ki te Whangapoua BMA

An ArcGIS storymap created by the Whangapoua Biodiversity Management Area documenting the research mahi delivered through Te Whakahononga Pou and funded by Ngā Rākau Taketake.
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Phytophthora agathidicida: research progress, cultural perspectives and knowledge gaps in the control and management of kauri dieback in New Zealand

Kauri (Agathis australis), which is one of the world’s largest and longest-living conifer species, is under threat from a root and collar dieback disease caused…
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Teach Indigenous knowledge alongside science

Conflict has grown around Indigenous knowledge in education policy. There has been growing acceptance of the value of Indigenous knowledge for promoting ecological resilience, transformational…
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BRIEF: Me Tū ā-Uru – Together for a flourishing Aotearoa

Embracing Te Tiriti o Waitangi can foster a thriving community where everyone feels they belong. Together, we can create a flourishing Aotearoa that benefits both…
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Crazy & Ambitious 4: Māori conservation map

Online presentation from Crazy & Ambitious 4: Māori conservation map, with Aroha Mead, Independent Research Director
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Te maunga e tautari mai naa

Te maunga e tautari mai naa – he pukapuka teenei e whakamaanawa ana i ngaa mahi tiaki kiwi na Maia Hauata (Ngāti Apakura, Waikato-Maniapoto, Ngāti…
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BRIEF: Integrated Surveillance

Te Tiriti-based surveillance for Forest Pathogens This research aimed to elevate mana whenua into the biosecurity and biodiversity management system, lifting mātauranga Māori (indigenous science)…
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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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Ko au te ngahere: Rongoā Practitioners and Kaitiaki perspectives on the value and meaning of the forest

He Taonga Kē Te Ngahere is about better understanding the meaning and value Māori give to te taiao (the natural environment), ngahere (forest) and taonga…
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Maara Tautāne

Learn more out about the Māra Tautāne through this e-book that was created for the unveiling ceremony. Also see: https://www.mobilisingforaction.nz/research-ra1-2/#resources
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Saving a forest from kauri dieback with rongoā Māori

As the fight against kauri dieback continues, a traditional Maori healer is using indigenous medicine to help save the ancient trees. Tohe Ashby belongs to…
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Bringing the ‘Trickster’ wasp into the Discourse on Biotechnological Controls of “Pest Wasps”

Last year the New Zealand Government’s announcement of a “Predator Free NZ 2050” was accompanied by a target for a significant scientific breakthrough capable of…
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