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Christchurch-based scientist Susan Wiser is part of a team of scholars from 90 institutions around the world to have had a paper published in the influential Science journal today that reveals a continued loss in tree biodiversity would result in an accelerating decline in forest productivity worldwide
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Facilitating innovation in the agricultural sector is crucial if the industry is to meet the challenge of safeguarding New Zealand’s global competitiveness in the future.
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A Landcare Research scientist has been granted funding to conduct further research into the commercial potential of an alga harvested from the wild. Dr Phil Novis says the "clinically proven health benefits" of the alga mean that it offers an alternative to the health supplement fish oil.
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Farmers seek biocontrol for smelly weed
15 Aug 16
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A high country sheep farmer is leading the fight against a putrid-smelling weed that reduces lucerne yields, wool quality and taints meat.
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Fighting wasps with wasps
2 Aug 16
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A parasitic wasp is the latest weapon scientists are investigating in the war against wasps.
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“The significant new investment in pest eradication, announced at Zealandia in Wellington today by Prime Minister John Key, could be a game-changer. And a game-changer is just what our biodiversity desperately needs,” says Dr Andrea Byrom, Director of the National Science Challenge for NZ’s Biological Heritage, and an expert in pest ecology.
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Where have all the silvereyes gone?
1 Jul 16
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There’s a record low of silvereyes in gardens across the country this winter, according to preliminary results from the New Zealand Garden Bird Survey.
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One million birds and counting
22 Jun 16
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This year marks the 10th anniversary of the New Zealand Garden Bird Survey.
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The grey-faced petrel will be well-known to many as the North Island muttonbird (or oi, kuia or tītī to North Island iwi).
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New virus to control rabbits
16 Mar 16
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A new strain of virus could help New Zealand farmers slash rabbit numbers by up to 30 per cent.