Te Honongā Kawanatanga Māori – Final Report
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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CHAPTER: Indigenous biosecurity: past, present and future
Environmental management is culturally and economically significant to Indigenous communities, and these communities increasingly recognise biosecurity as vital to maintaining their traditional ecosystems and supporting…
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Te Oati – Ngā Koiora Tuku Iho Mōteatea
Te Oati is a mōteatea that was composed by Waimirirangi Ormsby to reaffirm the vision and mission of the Biological Heritage Science Challenge as committed…
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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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Hōhonu – deepening Te Ao Māori within Aotearoa New Zealand’s environmental restoration work
I te timatanga, ko Māori te mātauranga tuatahi o Aotearoa Te Ao Māori was the first lore of environmental caretaking in Aotearoa New Zealand.…
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Opportunities for modern genetic technologies to maintain and enhance Aotearoa New Zealand’s bioheritage
In the past few years genetic technologies springing from advances in DNA sequencing (so-called high-throughput sequencing), and/or from CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing, have been proposed as…
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Tauranga Moana – Mauao
Ngā Pūrākau o Tauranga Moana: Pōhutukawa Moana An ArcGIS storymap created by the Tauranga Moana Biodiversity Management Area documenting the research mahi delivered through Te…
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