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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De-novo assembly of a reference genome for a critically threatened Aotearoa New Zealand tree species, Syzygium maire (Myrtaceae)
Aotearoa New Zealand’s swamp forests have experienced significant habitat loss in fewer than two hundred years. Many of the country’s tree species are endemic with…
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Mātauranga Māori in the Mātauranga Māori Framework for Surveillance of Plant Pathogens – A Literature Review
This report has been commissioned by Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research as part of the research programme ‘Mātauranga Māori Framework for Surveillance (MMFS) of Plant Pathogens’.…
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Indigenous Knowledges of forest and biodiversity management: how the watchfulness of Māori complements and contributes to disaster risk reduction
The United Nations Sendai Framework 2015-30 for disaster risk reduction (DRR) reaffirms the role of Indigenous Knowledges (IK) as complementing and contributing to more effective…
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Crazy & Ambitious 3 – 2022
A playlist of presentations given at New Zealand’s Biological Heritage Science Challenge online conference, Crazy & Ambitious 3. 24 – 27 May 2022. This event…
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One World, Two Worldviews
A poster illustrating Western science and Te ao Māori working together to advance understandings of myrtle rust. Also see: Research | RA1-1 — Mobilising For…
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Te Tukumate – The Pathogen
Te Taiao Whakatairanga, a cross-disciplinary research project bringing together arts, science and te ao Māori to raise awareness of threats to the health of our…
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What Does The Ideal Forest Biosecurity System Look Like?
This visual graphic was developed for a policy workshop with Auckland Council to outline concerns community had raised about how they would like to be…
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Trans-Tasman collaboration unlocks genetic secrets behind myrtle rust
In a trans-Tasman collaboration, scientists have sequenced the genome of Austropuccinia psidii, the fungus responsible for the disease myrtle rust, and produced the world’s largest assembled…
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Methodological sensitivities for co-producing knowledge through enduring trustful partnerships
Indigenous ways of caring for the environment have long been marginalised through research methodologies that are blind to a range of ways of knowing the…
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Interweaving Multiple Knowledges to Support Children’s Participation and Engagement in Biosecurity and Forest Health: Toitū te Ngahere
The arts, mātauranga Māori, and the environmental and social sciences might seem like unusual bedfellows for engaging children in biosecurity. But this article proposes that…
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Weather associated with myrtle rust on the North Island east coast
The aim of this study was to use a modelling approach to examine winter temperatures in New Zealand, particularly on the east coast of the…
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Understanding the distribution of genetic variation in ramarama – Amy MacDonald
Understanding the distribution of genetic variation in ramarama and its potential implications for conservation. Presented as part of the Kaurilands Summit 2023, hosted by Ngā…
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MapSafe: A complete tool for achieving geospatial data sovereignty
Sensitive geographic data are invaluable assets for the people to whom they belong and their disclosure should be decided by the sovereign data owner (SDO).…
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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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Optimising methods for screening the susceptibility of host species populations to myrtle rust
The highly invasive rust Austropuccinia psidii (myrtle rust) has an unusually large host range, with over 480 known hosts worldwide. The aim of this project…
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