WEBPAGE: Whare Taonga | Seed Banking
A Te Tira Whakamataki webpage providing information and resources on seed banking: What is Seed Banking (video) The Hub and Spoke Model – Te Tira…
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Conservation and Restoration 2021
It’s a huge challenge to conserve and restore kauri and native plants vulnerable to myrtle rust for future generations. It requires Te Ao Māori world…
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THESIS: He Kākano Ahau: Exploring Everyday Engagement with Rongoā Māori and Well-Being
Rongoā Māori is a holistic healing system based on traditional Māori beliefs and values. Although New Zealanders use rongoā to tend to health and well-being,…
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He taura here ki te taiao
A Māramatanga Indigenous Psychologies seminar presented by Neihana Matamua and Te Rā Moriarty titled: “He taura here ki te taiao – Exploring synchronistic meaning in…
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Investment in seed banks could pay off against climate change
Some of New Zealand’s native fauna and flora are critically endangered and there are concerns this country isn’t adequately safeguarding native seeds. Seed banking is…
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Biotechnologies in pest wasp control: taking the sting out of pest management for Māori businesses?
In Aotearoa New Zealand, the government’s ambitious target of becoming “predator-free” by 2050 has reignited public discussion on biotechnologies. The disproportionate abundance of German and…
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Biodiversity Instruments Briefing Note
The BioHeritage Challenge and the Adaptive Governance & Policy team (S07) commissioned the Climate Innovation Lab to identify the potential for innovative finance and funding…
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Building Social Cohesion Through Just Relationships
Starting at 9m31s is Dr Carwyn Jones’ introduction and lecture on building social cohesion given at the Napier Pilot City Trust – Unity Day 2022.
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Te ara o te moa: Patua te ngangara e kai ana i nga rakau taketake o Aotearoa
He taonga tūturu ngā rākau taketake o Aotearoa. Engari, ka matemate haere ētahi o ngā rākau taonga kei te ngahere, nā te ngāngara e kai…
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Te Whakahononga – the video
Produced by Taimania Productions Ltd. for Te Whakahononga research programme. Launched at the Kaurilands Summit 2023, hosted by Ngā Rākau Taketake. To find out…
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Resourcing rangatiratanga as part of constitutional transformation: taking equity and sovereignty seriously
This study explores possibilities for resourcing rangatiratanga, or Indigenous self-determination. We start by illustrating the role of taxation in erasing Indigenous sovereignty to first establish…
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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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