Myrtle Ora

Research on the health of our Myrtaceae plants and their forests.

Report

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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Summary

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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Media

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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Publication

Mobilising for Action: Introduction to the Special Issue

Mobilising for Action (MFA) is a transdisciplinary project consisting of social researchers and community knowledge holders and practitioners, largely situated in Aotearoa|New Zealand, but also…
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Publication

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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Video

What is Seed Banking

A video created by Rhiannon James Graphic Recording for NRT’s Oranga Theme and can also be found on the Te Tira Whakamātaki website here: https://www.ttw.nz/whare-taonga
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