Kaupapa Māori

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

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Te Honongā Kawanatanga Māori – Rotorua

This project has been designed to assist DOC to better understand their challenges and priorities when partnering with Māori, identifying material and resources likely to…
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Mātauranga Māori Framework for Surveillance – Issues Paper

Working with Tangata Kokiri and mana whenua, ‘an issues paper’, provides the foundation for potential impacts for mana whenua and their whanau/hapū, communities and other…
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Safeguarding Māori Cultural Rights and Stewardship: Te Tira Whakamātaki’s Position Paper on Seed Conservation

This document represents TTW’s expectations or principles when seed banking with Māori communities. We do not wish to speak on behalf of all iwi, hapū,…
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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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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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E Oho! Awakening Aotearoa and Mobilising Change: Noho Marae Wānanga at Ohaki Pā.

This video is part of the project Māori Resistance and Resilience Through Aotearoa-Based Planning and Resource Management, led by Kairangahau Māori Lara Taylor (Ngāti Tahu,…
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Co-governance what is it – and what’s driving the debate?

The interpretation and definition of partnership and co-governance under Te Tiriti o Waitangi has been back in the public eye generating claims of division and…
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How to talk about co-governance of our bioheritage.

A short guide for communicators and advocates of environmental management and policy. To protect our biological heritage together, requires decision makers to understand and recognise…
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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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A demographic model to support customary management of a culturally important waterfowl species

Scientific support invited by Indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLC) to assist with customary environmental management can improve conservation and community livelihoods. For example, demographic…
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Mai i te Pū ki te Wānanga: Interpreting Synchronistic Meaning Through a Wānanga Methodology

Making sense of synchronistic meaning between seemingly unrelated events is normalised within a Māori cultural context. However, westernised methodological approaches to exploring such phenomena are…
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Whakamanahia Te mātauranga o te Māori: empowering Māori knowledge to support Aotearoa’s aquatic biological heritage

By providing an appropriately historical context, this article is able to consider the critical issues now facing mātauranga and the Māori knowledge holders today, and…
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Presentation

Oranga and Te Mauri o te Kauri – Melanie Mark-Shadbolt and Valance Smith

Presented by Oranga co-leads and researchers Valance Smith and Melanie Mark-Shadbolt as part of the Kaurilands Summit 2023, hosted by Ngā Rākau Taketake.   Find…
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Complementarity of indigenous and western scientific approaches for monitoring forest state

Cross-cultural environmental monitoring systems inform on a broad suite of indicators relevant to both scientific and local communities. In this study, we used forest-plot-based survey…
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Māori Rights and Interests in the Conservation Space

A presentation given as part of the Te Mana Motuhake o te Kākano: Māori Seed Conservation Hui held online, 16 October 2023. In this presentation,…
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A cloud-based solution for trustless indigenous data sovereignty: Protecting Māori biodiversity management data in Aotearoa New Zealand

Indigenous peoples should be able to govern data about themselves, their territories, resources, and ways of life, collected by themselves or others. However, the progressive…
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