Tranche 1 Pou: Science Excellence and Impact Understanding the benefits, challenges and impact of BioHeritage’s approach to mission-led research BioHeritage made an early...

Tranche 2 - Pou Stimulating new ideas, approaches or syntheses that are needed to improve our biological heritage over the longer-term. The BioHeritage National Science...

Tranche 2: Strategic Objective 5 - Novel Tools & Strategies - Supporting a Predator Free 2050 Novel tools, technologies and strategies need to be deployed to eradicate...

Tranche 2: Strategic Objective 5 - Novel Tools & Strategies - Invertebrates Novel tools, technologies and strategies need to be deployed to eradicate biotic threats. Many of...

Tranche 2: Strategic Objective 4 Automation can improve biosecurity surveillance systems Surveillance is an essential part of protecting New Zealand’s economic assets and...

Tranche 2: Strategic Objective 7 This investment tackles the ways in which governance and policy need to change to better protect te taiao (the environment). At the moment,...

The AUT Living Laboratories programme is a ‘spin-off’ project from the BioH NSC Tranche 1 “Farming and Nature Conservation” NSC project. Here, the team are addressing science...

Invasive, non-native plants (weeds) are a major driver of declines in biodiversity and also cause economic damage across different land uses. Plant invasions may be exacerbated...

Tranche 2: Strategic Objective 3 A values-based biosecurity risk assessment framework for Aotearoa. Aotearoa is home to incredibly valuable production and indigenous landscapes....

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...

He oranga wai, he oranga whakapapa. Critical change in the health of the awa through Kaupapa Maori-led Kaitiakitanga practices

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...

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...

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...

Tranche1: Project 3.2 Researchers are investigating how the application of kaitiakitanga (Māori guardianship) approaches contribute to reversing the decline of New Zealand’s...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...