Integrated Surveilance 2022
The ‘Integrated Surveillance’ team is elevating the status of the environment into Aotearoa New Zealand’s biosecurity surveillance system. The environment-centric surveillance framework focuses on ensuring…
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Insights to the functional relationships of Māori harvest practices: Customary use of a burrowing seabird
We used a deterministic age-structured model of a population of grey-faced petrels (Pterodroma gouldi). By harvesting pre-fledging chicks, rather than adult birds, Māori harvesters had…
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A representation of a Tuawhenua worldview guides environmental conservation
Cultural expressions related to the kererū demonstrated the cultural significance of the bird to Tuawhenua that went well beyond the ecological and intrinsic value of the species. The Tuawhenua worldview…
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Reversing the decline in NZ’s biodiversity: empowering Maori within reformed conservation law.
Creating new conservation law that more holistically and comprehensively supports hapū and iwi leadership in conservation management should be embraced as a critical step towards…
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Key biocultural values to guide restoration action and planning in New Zealand
A pluralist and cross-cultural approach that accommodates differing values while encouraging the collaboration and social cohesion necessary for the complex task of ecological restoration is…
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Key Māori values strengthen the mapping of forest ecosystems services
Highlights Mauri (life force) and mahinga kai (food provisioning) most frequently assigned values. Mauri associated with the four primary ecosystem service categories. Tuawhenua Māori forest values mostly represented within…
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New Directions for Resource Management in New Zealand
Report of the Resource Management Review Panel. June 2020; Tony Randerson et al.
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Biodiversity Instruments Briefing Note
The Bioheritage Challenge and the Adaptive Governance & Policy team (S07) commissioned the Climate Innovation Lab to identify the potential for innovative finance and funding…
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He Puapua Lands Territories and Resources Briefing
Summary of ‘Lands, Territories and Resources’ in He Puapua.
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Wai 262 – Briefing on natural resource governance and policy recommendations
Ko Aotearoa Tēnei: A report into claims concerning New Zealand law & policy affecting Māori culture and identity, Volume 1 & 2.
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How to talk about co-governance of our bioheritage.
A short guide for communicators and advocates of environmental management and policy.
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Towards rangatiratanga in pest management? Māori perspectives and frameworks on novel biotechnologies in conservation
We gathered Māori perspectives on novel biotechnological controls for pest wasps through three distinct studies. Study participants included tertiary students, businesses, and spiritual or religiously…
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