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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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Motorways, Wetlands And Kai: Caleb Royal and Kaitiakitanga

Learn more about how a strip of land near the Kāpiti Express motorway is being run sustainably by local Māori who have reclaimed this land…
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Guidance

Monitoring periphyton in rivers

Periphyton is the brown or green slime that grows on stones, wood or any other stable surfaces in streams and rivers. In some situations, it…
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Mapping Freshwater Contaminants

Mapping Freshwater Contaminants

A set of research projects collectively mapping freshwater contaminant transport from source to sink
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Land Use Suitability

Land use suitability tools and assessment processes for increasing land use diversity and delivering better community outcomes.
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Journal Article

Temporal Changes in Cd Sorption and Plant Bioavailability in Compost-Amended Soils

The application of Cd-contaminated phosphate fertiliser has enriched concentrations of this non-essential element in many agricultural soils. Consequently, concentrations of the metal in some agricultural…
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Diverse Experience Farming

Diverse Experiences of Farming

Building a place-based social licence to operate
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Reference conditions and threshold values for nitrate-nitrogen in New Zealand groundwaters

Management of groundwater quality is assisted by an understanding of reference conditions, which describe the concentration ranges expected for key substances in the absence of…
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