Media releases
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How many moa?
18 Dec 19
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Flightless birds were once the largest and heaviest terrestrial fauna on many archipelagos around the world – including the nine species of moa in New Zealand. Dave Latham and colleagues used population data from living species of flightless birds to estimate how many moa these islands might have once supported.
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We are proud to announce the contribution of our researchers to a special Mātauranga Māori issue of the New Zealand Journal of Ecology.
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Myrtle rust is a disease caused by an invasive pathogen that infects iconic native New Zealand trees in the Myrtaceae family, such as pōhutukawa and manuka. The windborne fungus causes tree dieback and potentially tree death.
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A treasure-trove containing thousands of subantarctic specimens that date back to the 1800s is arriving at Manaaki Whenua this month, making the subantarctic collection housed in the Allan Herbarium the world’s largest.
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Scientists advise to prune your lilly pilly hedges this month, to save New Zealand’s native plants
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Kaikōmako manawa tāwhi returned to iwi
20 Aug 19
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One of the world’s rarest trees has potentially been saved from extinction and returned to its rohe. Pennantia baylisiana, once in the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s rarest tree, was successfully propagated by scientists in the 1980s and then grown on to produce hundreds of saplings – reducing its risk of extinction.
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Red-listing NZ's endangered fungi
19 Jul 19
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Scientists are campaigning to have endangered fungi from across Australasia included in the Global Red List of threatened species.
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New Zealand will need to make major advances in large-scale predator management to stop and reverse forest bird declines.
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One of New Zealand’s longest running citizen science projects, the New Zealand Garden Bird Survey, has taken off again this week.
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Very big books about very small plants
19 Jun 19
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This week sees the publication by Missouri Botanical Garden Press of the second and third volumes of a landmark collection of books known as a flora, representing all we know about a small but very significant aspect of New Zealand’s plant biodiversity – liverworts and hornworts.