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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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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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…
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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