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He Tangata, He Taiao, He Ōhanga
Tranche 2: Strategic Objective 3 A values-based biosecurity risk assessment framework for Aotearoa. Aotearoa is home to incredibly valuable production and indigenous landscapes.... -
Predicting and Preventing Ecosystem Decline
Tranche 1: Project 3.1 Researchers are developing a framework to help predict and prevent the approach of rapid, harmful and difficult-to-reverse changes in ecosystems. In this... -
Managing Threats to Freshwater Taonga Invertebrates
Tranche1: Project 3.5 Management of non-native fish such as catfish may be the answer to safeguarding freshwater taonga (treasured) species in our waterways, researchers have... -
Rebuilding Healthy Rivers
Tranche1: Project 3.4 Researchers are using freshwater systems as a model to test how degraded ecosystems can be resistant to disruptions – including those that aim to restore... -
Farming & Nature Conservation
Tranche 1: Project 3.3 Sheep and beef farms make up nearly 40% of Aotearoa’s landscape and play a vital role in our economy. At the same time, this land use is home to a quarter... -
Customary Approaches to Ecosystem Resilience
Tranche1: Project 3.2 Researchers are investigating how the application of kaitiakitanga (Māori guardianship) approaches contribute to reversing the decline of New Zealand’s... -
Taking the Sting out of the Common Wasp
Tranche 1: Project 2.2 Large-scale eradication may be in store for the humble wasp – a species responsible for one of the worst pest problems in Aotearoa. OVERVIEW Wasps have... -
Public Perceptions of New Pest Control Methods
Tranche 1: Project 2.6 One of the nation’s largest surveys on public attitudes toward new pest control technologies has shown that most New Zealanders support the need for pest... -
Mobile Apps to Keep New Zealand Safe
Tranche 1: Project 2.5 Mobile technologies are being developed to help New Zealanders report suspected biosecurity threats, with the first step being a bilingual app that helps... -
Whakawātea Riha Rāwaho
Tranche1: Project 2.4 Māori solutions to biosecurity threats may be the key to combating the serious fungal disease myrtle rust. This BioHeritage Challenge project, led by Alby... -
Biosecurity Network Interventions
Tranche 1: Project 2.1 The spread of pests, weeds and pathogens into Aotearoa is a major cause of the decline of its biological heritage. This includes profitability of... -
The Groundwater Biodiversity Project
Tranche 1: Project 1.5 The unsung heroes of our groundwater system – bacteria that remove contaminants and tiny invertebrates that keep the bacteria in balance – are helping... -
Adaptive Evolution of Native Biota
Tranche 1: Project 1.4 Researchers are collecting DNA information from some of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most threatened species in an effort to make them more resilient to future... -
eDNA For Environmental Monitoring
Tranche 1: Project 1.3 In a New Zealand first, researchers have developed a nationwide database to integrate and share eDNA data to allow biological diversity across our diverse... -
Stopping Kauri Dieback in its Tracks
Tranche1: Project 2.7 Selected native plant extracts may be able to attract and kill the spores of Phytophthora agathidicida – the pathogen causing kauri dieback, according to... -
Combating Pathogen Risk Using Genomics
Tranche 1: Project 1.2 To protect our native and production ecosystems from the invasion of new pathogens, rapid assessments of the potential impact of identified and...
