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Our mission was to preserve the most fundamental treasures of Aotearoa – its land and water – while producing value from those same treasures.

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Online Tools Show Where Land-Use Change Needs to be Considered

We now know where land use needs to change, to meet New Zealand policy expectations for water quality. This article was prepared as an impact…
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Journal Article

Demonstrating efficacy of on-land management actions to improve water quality: How can we quantify what actions have been done?

We reviewed 91 global publications and proceedings between 1989 and 2019 which assessed the complexities related to recording and reporting sustainable land use actions with…
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Journal Article

Factors controlling shallow subsurface dissolved reactive phosphorus concentration and loss kinetics from poorly drained saturated grassland soils

Shallow subsurface pathways dominate dissolved reactive phosphorus (DRP) losses in grassland soils that are: poorly drained, shallow, or have a perched water table in wetter…
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Infographic

Schematic of Access and Benefit-Sharing for Māori

This infographic represents suggested modifications from Wakatū-convened wānanga to the UN Convention of Biological Diversity schematic on Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS).
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Technical Report

Multilateral Data Sharing: Lessons from a case study with organisations managing beef genetics data

Multilateral data sharing (MLDS) is a long-held goal of many organisations in New Zealand’s food and fibre industries. It is also an efficient way to…
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Guidance

Impacts of sediment on kōaro

This is one of a collection of 11 fact sheets bringing together existing scientific information on the impacts of sediment on freshwater and estuarine fish…
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Journal Article

Towards best-practice inclusion of cultural indicators in decision making by Indigenous Peoples

The purpose of this article is to explore the state of knowledge of cultural indicators internationally and in Aotearoa New Zealand. Cultural indicators are a…
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