Reflections and voices

The latest happenings in global activities (politics and the Strait of Hormuz) sees us once again faced with the very probable, likely-to-materialise issue of food security. We last encountered this…

Biological incursions are the gift that keeps on giving. One of the latest gifts is the yellow-legged hornet (Vespa velutina), discovered in Auckland in late October. This hornet is like…

Did you know that the modern, popular weight loss drug owes its existence to a lizard? That’s right, the glucagon-like peptide (GLP-1) antagonist known also as  Ozempic or Wegovy was…

I have been attending scientific conferences since I started my post-graduate degrees over a decade ago. For me, conferences are one of the highlights of being a researcher. They are…

Bioprotection Futures (Project 1 in Pou Titirangi) is focused on understanding the social-political dimensions of bioprotection in Aotearoa New Zealand. Co-led by Dr Sylvia Nissen and Dr Marc Tadaki, our…

You may have recently read about the Department of Conservation spending around $100,000 per year for the past 4 years to house and manage snails. Now, these aren’t just any…

We often think of braided rivers as physical matter and hydraulic force, with gravel-filled channels shifting their way downstream and across the braidplain, occasionally bursting their banks and washing bridges…

Beneath the beauty lies urgency. Coastlines, villages, and treasured waters of the Pacific face rising risks. The ICJ’s climate ruling is a call for global accountability to protect places like…

There has been a resurgence in discussions of de-extinction, also known as resurrection biology or species revivalism. Discussions were sparked by the news that the biotech company Colossal Biosciences has ‘resurrected’…

Amanda is proud of publications put out by Bioprotection Aotearoa… but is there another way? Our value as researchers is largely measured by the number of peer reviewed publications we…