9 February 2022
This article features Professor Margaret Stanley, a researcher at Bioprotection Aotearoa. Margaret shares her science communication project on weed management. Margaret was one of 30 scientists and illustrators who participated…
19 January 2022
Jessie Chan is a board member for Bioprotection Aotearoa and was inlcuded in the 2022 New Years Honours list. She became a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit…
20 December 2021
Bioprotection Aotearoa, is the latest co-sponsor of MacDiarmid’s Institute Discovery Scholarships programme, that nurtures a pathway for undergraduate Māori and Pasifika students interested in STEM. Through collaboration the most difficult challenges…
19 July 2021
Creating the new brand and logo for Bioprotection Aotearoa was a collaborative effort, involving many different people with many different roles in the new Centre of Research Excellence. It started…
Bioprotection Aotearoa is a new Centre of Research Excellence, built on the whakapapa of the Bio-Protection Research Centre. However, it is not a simple continuation – it is an evolution….
16 June 2021
An indigenous New Zealand fungus may help to control wilding pines – one of the country’s most ecologically damaging weed species – a student’s research project shows. Wilding pine control…
New Zealand’s native plants may help to reduce bacterial contamination caused by dairy effluent, a new study suggests. Researchers from the Bio-Protection Research Centre, ESR, and the University of Canterbury…
15 June 2021
Invasion ecology has long suggested exotic species can become successful by escaping their natural enemies. A long-running Bio-Protection Research Centre experiment challenges this, showing that exotic plants dominate their communities,…
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