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,…
Genetic and genomic technologies have potential to enhance New Zealand’s bioheritage, but we shouldn’t expect to see “de-extinctions” or gene drives any time soon, say authors of a paper in…
1 January 1970
Many of the possible technologies also need social, cultural, and legal approval before they can be developed further. The paper, by scientists from the Bio-Protection Research Centre, Genomics Aotearoa, University…