News & events
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Nov 18
13
Winning against Wildings: Update
13 Nov 18
Results from a new survey have revealed landowners and farmers in New Zealand are more aware of the ‘serious threat’ posed by wilding pines than ever before.
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Nov 18
5
One of New Zealand’s most successful conservation programmes is in full flight. Deep in the ancient Pureora rainforest, a small group of North Island kōkako catchers wait in the dark, eager to coerce a pair of the wild forest-dwelling birds into their net.
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Oct 18
26
Scientist awarded fellowship for research into the impact of climate change on New Zealand land
26 Oct 18
Kendon Bell awarded a Fellowship to continue his research into measuring the impact of climate change on New Zealand land.
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Sep 18
19
The race against myrtle rust
19 Sep 18
Pōhutukawa, mānuka, kānuka, and other NZ seeds are being collected, grown, and tested for resilience to this burgeoning disease.
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Aug 18
16
Combining mathematics, school students, and scientific predator tracking techniques doesn’t usually add up, but researchers are trialling a new project combining the three in a bid to teach students how to track and analyse animal movements.
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Aug 18
9
Wilding conifers are a huge threat to New Zealand. The large trees, also known as wilding pines, now invade more than 1.8 million hectares of land.
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Jul 18
26
Ahi Pepe Light weaves together te reo, science, art, nature, and Te Ao Māori to create a bilingual set of guides and activities around Ngā Puka Whakamārama o Te Pepe Nui – The Beginners’ Guide to Macro Moths.
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Jul 18
13
‘The Great Weeds Hunt Aotearoa’ – school students join in on hunting down some of our worst weeds
13 Jul 18
New Zealand is one of the weediest countries in the world, with the number of weed species now outnumbering our native flora. These invasive weeds are among the greatest environmental threats to our parks, wetlands, reserves, coasts, bush remnants, and alpine areas.
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Jul 18
10
Wasp biocontrol update 13
10 Jul 18
Last year we brought back from the UK well over 1,000 Sphecophaga vesparum pupae, around 800 Volucella zonaria larvae, 50 Volucella inanis larvae, 40, or so, adult Metoecus paradoxus beetles and two Leopoldius spp pupae. The plan for this season was to rear them all up in order to do the host suitability trials on wasps, bumblebees and honeybees.
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Jun 18
25
Soil scientists have reached a new milestone, digitally mapping more than 8 million hectares of New Zealand soils.