Toitoi Manawa – Myrtle Ora Surveillance, Monitoring and Management Strategy
Myrtle Rust impacts on our environment but is also impacted on our native and natural eco- systems. Our strategy plan, “Toitoi Manawa” means to motivate,…
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How do Scientists Understand Myrtle Rust?
Conversations with six myrtle rust experts from Scion, Plant and Food and Beyond Myrtle Rust Commissioned by Centre for Indigenous Psychologies, and He Taonga Kē…
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BRIEF: Toitū te Ngahere
Mobilising for Action’s Toitū te Ngahere (TTN) project partnered with five primary schools, in Auckland and on Aotea Great Barrier Island, to create children’s art…
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Fragmentation and Values: Reflections on postcoloniality research in Aotearoa/New Zealand and Cymru/Wales
Presentation by Dr Sara Mac-Bride-Stewart, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University PhD symposium, Amgueddfa Cymru / Wales, 29 June 2023.
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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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Integrated Surveilance 2022
The ‘Integrated Surveillance’ team is elevating the status of the environment into Aotearoa New Zealand’s biosecurity surveillance system. The environment-centric surveillance framework focuses on…
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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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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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Sexual and asexual propagation of Syzygium maire, a critically endangered Myrtaceae species of New Zealand
Syzygium maire (swamp maire) is an endemic New Zealand Myrtaceae tree species. Current threats to this species include habitat destruction, myrtle rust, declining remnant populations…
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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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Vulnerability of New Zealand Myrtaceae species to natural infection by Austropuccinia psidii (myrtle rust)
Current knowledge about the vulnerability of New Zealand’s native myrtle species to Austropuccinia psidii comes from resistance screening of young seedlings performed with artificial inoculation…
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What does myrtle rust resilience look like for Māori?
The fungus that causes myrtle rust, Austropuccinia psidii, arrived in New Zealand in 2017. To date, it has been recorded infecting many ecologically, culturally, and…
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Cultural monitoring tools: A mana whenua narrative
This report reflects the narrative captured whilst developing and trialing a cultural monitoring survey tool for the Ngā Rākau Taketake Theme, Control Protect, Cure; Cultural…
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Patuharakeke: Ngā Rākau Taketake Summary Report
An ArcGIS storymap created by the Patuharakeke Biodiversity Management Area documenting the research mahi delivered through Te Whakahononga Pou and funded by Ngā Rākau Taketake.
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Overview of kahikā Rangitāhua (Metrosideros kermadecensis) and rātā Moehau (M. bartlettii), taonga unique to the rohe of Ngāti Kuri
This report for the Ngāti Kuri Trust Board, Ngātaki, provides information on the botany, ecology and biology of rātā Moehau and kahikā Rangitāhua to assist…
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Te Honongā Kawanatanga Māori – Rotorua & Hamilton
This document is a report outlining engagement with Te Papa Atawhai (Department of Conservation) kaimahi Māori staff following a wānanga held in Hamilton and Rotorua…
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