CRAZY & AMBITIOUS CONFERENCE 2017 8-10 MAY 2017, WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND
Conference Handbook & Book of Abstracts CRAZY & AMBITIOUS NOT YOUR USUAL NATIONAL MEETING 8-10 MAY 2017 / TE PAPA, WELLINGTON
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Welcome
Nau mai, nau mai, nau mai: ki te hui ‘Pōrangi me te Awhero’ o Te Wero Pūtaiao mo Ngā koiora tuku iho i konei i Te Papa i roto i Te Whanganui-a-Tara. Welcome to the ‘Crazy and Ambitious’ conference of the New Zealand’s Biological Heritage National Science Challenge here at Te Papa in Wellington! This is our first national meeting, and we always wanted to try something different. Our vision is to host a gathering that is ‘not your usual science conference’ – rather, a mix of perspectives from the wider Challenge communuty: scientists, community groups and NGOs, primary industry, politicians, and all our Challenge Parties. The conference programme reflects strong involvement of Māori: scientists, communities, and the private sector. We’re also lucky to host the first visit of our International Science Advisory Panel and other Contents international speakers: their global perspectives will bring another dimension again to the programme. All our speakers have been asked Sponsors...... 2 to put forward their big, bold and unusal (crazy and ambitious!) ideas over the next three days. They have been asked to challenge you, to be provocative and to make all of us think, question, debate and discuss. Welcome...... 3 What are the National Science Challenges really about? In a nutshell they are about drawing together large, collaborative national teams to Programme...... 5–12 focus on big issues facing Aotearoa New Zealand. Over the three days we’ve chosen to highlight some of these issues. The role of Māori and General Information...... 14 indigenous people worldwide in environmental management. Keeping pest and disease threats offshore, and protecting conservation and production ecosystems through better border biosecurity and risk Invited Speakers...... 16–22 management. Valuing our treasured native biodiversity, and heeping it safe through the bold vision of a Predator-Free New Zealand. The Oral Abstracts...... 24–72 role of citizens as scientists and the growing public involvement in (and enthusiasm for) maintaining our biological heritage. Restoring healthy freshwater ecosystems. The need for disruptive new technologies, and Poster Abstracts...... 73–79 a healthy public discourse around them. Protecting native biodiversity on private land, and achieving sustainable primary production whilst Science Media Savvy Express... 80 delivering value and productivity from agricultural, horticultural and other land-based ecosystems of interest to the primary sector. Building resilience to global change into our conservation and production Sponsor Profiles...... 81 ecosystems. And to cap off a busy three days, we are delighted to co- host the Department of Conservation’s Threatened Species Summit, Delegate List...... 83–89 which will highlight the plight of our threatened species, showcase the role of partnerships in conservation, and present exciting new tools for threatened species recovery. Venue Floorplan...... 92–94 I would like to thank our Challenge Host, Landcare Research, for their strong support, enthusiasm and generous sponsorship of the Wellington Map...... 95 conference, and a number of our Challenge parties (ESR, Plant & Food Research, the Department of Conservation, the University of Waikato and the University of Otago) for extra sponsorship. And finally, this Challenge would not be what it is without the support of all 17 of our Conference Secretariat Challenge Parties. Again a big welcome to all of you, and we hope you enjoy the conference! Otirā, nau mai ano ki a koutou katoa, kia ngākaunui ki te wānanga nei. Telephone: 04 384 1511 Andrea Byrom Email: [email protected] Challenge Director Website: www.confer.co.nz
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Conference Programme: Day 1 Monday 8th May 2017
8:00–9:00am MORNING TEA/REGISTRATION in Amokura Gallery (4th Floor) Day 1: Monday 8 May 9:00 MIHI – Biological Heritage National Science Challenge Kāhui Māori
9:30 OPENING ADDRESS: James Buwalda Chair of Governance Group of the Biological Heritage National Science Challenge and Andrea Byrom, Director of BHNSC 10:00 PLENARY: Dr Jan Wright*, Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment Taonga of an island nation: saving New Zealand’s native birds 10:45 PLENARY: Kim Tallbear*, Associate Professor, University of Alberta Decolonizing Science & Technology 11:30 PLENARY: Sandy Liebhold*, Research entomologist, USDA Forest Service, West Virginia New approaches to managing insect incursions: An international collaboration.
12:00–1:00pm LUNCH in Amokura Gallery (4th Floor) CONCURRENT SYMPOSIA INDIGENOUS VALUES – BIOCULTURAL HERITAGE BIOSECURITY 2025 Chair: Holden Hohaia, GM Māori Development Landcare Jen Scoular, CEO, New Zealand Avocado Research Manaaki Whenua Room: Icon (2nd Floor) Amokura Gallery (4th Floor)
1:00 Crazy & Ambitious – Enshrining Vision Mātauranga Overview of biosecurity in New Zealand: Opportunities into the Biological Heritage Challenge, the bigger to make a difference. Roger Smith, Chief Operations picture. Melanie Mark-Shadbolt, Māori Manager & Officer, Ministry for Primary Industries Amanda Black, Kaihautū of BHNSC 1:15 Why should we include Vision Mātauranga and Biosecurity – are we really trying to stop the tide? Barry Mātauranga Māori in our research? A non- Māori O’Neill, CEO, Kiwifruit Vine Health perspective. Andrea Byrom, Director, BHNSC
1:30 Engaging Tangata Whenua - a model for End to End: Innovative science across the border community engagement. Alby Marsh, Māori biosecurity continuum. Dave Teulon, Director, Better Relationship Advisor, Te Raranga Ahumara, Plant & Border Biosecurity, Plant & Food Research Food Research 1:45 A Tuawhenua Māori worldview defines Port of Tauranga Biosecurity Excellence - A key relationship between people & biodiversity. partnership targeting biosecurity challenges of the Puke Timoti, Tūhoe Tuawhenua Trust & Phil Lyver, future. Mark Whitworth, Port of Tauranga Landcare Research Manaaki Whenua
2:00 What’s Māori about Māori science? The Pūtaiao From pets to pests: threat of invasion from the trade in paradox. Georgina Stewart, Auckland University new alien species. Phillip Cassey*, Associate Professor, of Technology University of Adelaide 2:15 Disrupting the Narrative: Māori Student PANEL DISCUSSION: Biosecurity:2025 and beyond Engagement in Science through Pūhoro. Naomi Manu, Massey University Chair: David Teulon (Plant & Food Research), Panellists: Bill Dyck (Forest Owners Association), Chris Morley 2:30 Preventing a fatal attraction: disrupting the spread (DairyNZ), Richard Bowman (Environment Southland), of kauri dieback disease. Monica Gerth, Richard Palmer (Horticulture NZ), Thomas Malcolm (Te University of Otago Tira Whakamātaki, Māori Biosecurity Network), Veronica Herrera (MPI), Alan Ross (DOC) 2:45 Ahi Pepe MothNet. Barbara Anderson, Landcare Research Manaaki Whenua
3:00–3:30pm AFTERNOON TEA in Amokura Gallery (4th Floor)
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Conference Programme: Day 1 Monday 8th May 2017 cont’d.
CONCURRENT SYMPOSIA INDIGENOUS VALUES – BIOCULTURAL HERITAGE BIOSECURITY 2025 Chair: Jamie Ataria Bio-Protection Research Centre, Lincoln Sandy Liebhold, Research entomologist, USDA University and Thomas (Tame) Malcolm, Kāhui Māori, Biological Heritage NSC & Waikato Regional Council Room: Icon (2nd Floor) Amokura Gallery (4th Floor) 3:30 PANEL DISCUSSION: Who owns biodiversity In search of the Cheshire cat’s smile. John Kean, genetic data? AgResearch Panellists: Kim TallBear (Associate Professor, University 3:45 of Alberta), Aroha Mead (Chair Emeritus IUCN CEESP), Is the supply of invasive species limited? Eckehard Peter Dearden (Professor, University of Otago), Tammy Brockerhoff, Scion 4:00 Steeves (Senior Lecturer, University of Canterbury) R3- The importance of Relevant Research in managing Panel discussion will finish at 4:25pm allowing Biosecurity Risk: What’s on our Radar, how do they Rank speakers and delegates time to move upstairs to the and what’s our Return on investment? Christine Reed, MPI Amokura Gallery for the plenary addresses. 4:15 Risk-based Approach (R-bA) for regulation of high risk Phytophthora species at the New Zealand border. Anusara Herath, MPI 4:30 Melanie Mark-Shadbolt and Amanda Black, Bio-Protection Research Centre
Day 1: Monday 8 May Te Tira Whakamātaki: Māori Biosecurity Network
4:45 PLENARY: Jacqueline Beggs*, Director of Centre for Biodiversity and Biosecurity, University of Auckland. Balancing biosecurity priorities: are natural ecosystems the poor cousins? 5:30 Hon Paul Goldsmith, Minister of Science and Innovation
6:00pm DAY 1 CONFERENCE END
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Conference Programme Tuesday 9th May 2017 Day 2: Tuesday 9 May 8:30am PLENARY: Fiona Carswell, Chief Scientist, Landcare Research Manaaki Whenua Growing the pie: How the BioHeritage Challenge is shaping NZ’s bioheritage research
9:00 PLENARY: Nigel French, Professor, Massey University How the revolution in pathogen genomics is informing biosecurity, food safety and public health in New Zealand
9:30 PLENARY: Andrew Young, Director of National Research Collections, CSIRO Biological collections: Essential biodiversity research tools for the 21st Century
10:00–10:30pm MORNING TEA in Amokura Gallery (4th Floor)
CONCURRENT SYMPOSIA PREDATOR-FREE NZ 2050 GENOMICS AND DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES Chair: Roger Pech, Principal Scientist, Landcare Research Neil Gemmell, Professor, University of Otago Manaaki Whenua Room: Amokura Gallery (4th Floor) Icon (2nd Floor) 10:30 Science for conservation. Mick Clout*, Emeritus (Gene) Driving pests to extinction. Professor, University of Auckland Peter Dearden*, Professor, University of Otago 10:45 Cape Sanctuary and its role in the Cape to City Ambitious, but not crazy: Identification and widescale predator control project. Andy Lowe*, recommendation of standardised molecular procedures Managing Director, Lowe Corporation for the identification of all life from environmental DNA. Gavin Lear, University of Auckland
11:00 Cape to City – challenging the boundaries. Campbell Caring for environmental DNA data (through sharing). Leckie*, Land Services Manager, Hawke’s Bay Austen R. D. Ganley, University of Auckland Regional Council 11:15 The Taranaki Mounga project – landscape scale Drivers of change in microbial diversity and function in ecological transformation. Jan Hania*, Environment New Zealand soils. Steve Wakelin, Scion Director, NEXT Foundation 11:30 Conservation – sideshow or the main act? Environmental DNA and wildlife surveillance; From Paul Atkins*, CEO, Zealandia promise to delivery. Dianne Gleeson, University of Canberra 11:45 High tech solutions to invasive mammal pest control. Pathogen genomics and biosecurity. Bevan Weir, James Russell, University of Auckland Landcare Research 12:00pm New sensor approaches to sniff out invasive mammal Compare and contrast: genetic diversity and population pests. Andrew Kralicek, Plant & Food Research structure utilising genotyping-by-sequencing. Shannon Clarke, AgResearch 12:15 The Cacophony Project - using digital technologies Analysis of genetic composition of Argentine stem to make trapping 80,000 times more efficient. Grant weevil populations using genotyping-by-sequencing. Ryan, The Cacophony Project Jeanne Jacobs, AgResearch
12:30–1:30 LUNCH in Amokura Gallery (4th Floor)
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Conference Programme Tuesday 9th May 2017 cont’d. Day 2: Tuesday 9 May CONCURRENT SYMPOSIA PREDATOR-FREE NZ 2050 GENOMICS AND DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES Chair: Andrea Byrom, Director, BioHeritage NSC Peter Dearden, Professor, University of Otago nd Room: Amokura Gallery (4th Floor) Icon (2 Floor) 1:30 Ambitious proposals have a long history: which ones Genetic tools for pest eradication and control – not worked and why? Carolyn King, University of Waikato crazy, just ambitious.Neil Gemmell*, Professor, 1:45 A blueprint for a data commons. James Mansell, Noos Ltd. University of Otago 2:00 A roadmap to Predator-Free New Zealand. Richard Why saving species and resurrecting species are the Bowman*, Biosecurity Manager, Environment same, and why it matters. Mike Dickison, Whanganui Southland. Regional Museum 2:15 PANEL SESSION: From crazy to collaboration – Modelling the application of new genetic-based discussing the merits of Predator-Free 2050. tools to pest management. Aidin Jalilzadeh, Landcare Chair: Andrea Byrom (Director, BHNSC). Panellists: Research Manaaki Whenua Jamie Steer (University of Auckland), Nicola Toki (DOC), 2:30 Judy Gilbert (Windy Hill Restoration Trust Great Barrier Realising the promise of conservation genomics: an Island), James Russell (University of Auckland), Devon accelerated approach. Tammy Steeves, University Mclean (Project Janszoon; PFNZ 2050 Board), Wayne of Canterbury 2:45 Linklater (Victoria University) Exploiting the chemical ecology of invasive species for biosecurity. Maxwell Suckling, Plant & Food Research
3:00–3:30pm AFTERNOON TEA in Amokura Gallery (4th Floor)
CONCURRENT SYMPOSIA PROTECTING NZ’S PRIMARY INDUSTRIES SOCIAL LICENCE TO OPERATE Chair: Travis Glare, Director, Bio-Protection Research Centre Nick Waipara, Kaihautū BHSC & Principal Advisor for Biosecurity, Auckland Council Room: Amokura Gallery (4th Floor) Icon (2nd Floor) 3:30 Pastures; are they New Zealand’s most neglected The value of trust & social licence in NZ’s primary ecosystem? Stephen Goldson*, Principal Scientist, sector. Peter Edwards, Scion AgResearch 3:45 New Zealand eradication of bovine TB - a bold new If we build it, will they use it? Exploring NZers social target. Stu Hutchings, OSPRI licence towards novel pest control methodologies. Edy Macdonald, DOC 4:00 How effective have biosecurity measures been in Bringing the ‘Trickster Wasp’ into the discourse on preventing the introduction of plant pathogens to New biotechnological controls of ‘pest wasps’ Ocean Zealand? Phil Hulme, Bio-Protection Research Centre Ripeka Mercier, Victoria University 4:15 Piloting area-wide sterile insect releases of codling Is nature a luxury? Danielle Shanahan, Zealandia moth in New Zealand. James Walker, Plant & Food Research 4:30 Enhancing surveillance capabilities - building a Whakarongo ki te hapori - Listen to the community partnership. Steve Pawson, Scion first - talk second. Jo Ritchie 4:45 Speakers and delegates to move upstairs to the Amokura Gallery for the plenary address. 4: 50 PLENARY: Kevin Prime*, Environment Commissioner, Farmer, Forester, Beekeeper, Conservationist. What is Kaitiakitanga? 5:30 POSTER SESSION/RECEPTION Enter Landcare Research’s #BlitzMe competition and win a backyard BioBlitz for the not-for-profit of your choice.
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Conference Programme: Day 3 Wednesday 10th May 2017
8:30am PLENARY: Joshua Viers*, Associate Professor, University of California. Black Swan-Brown River: How a free-flowing river transformed California’s approach to river management
9.00 Karakia and mihi whakatau, Joe Harawira, DOC
9:10 Lou Sanson, Director General, Department of Conservation
9:15 Hon Maggie Barry, Minister of Conservation
9:30 Predator Free 2050 – advancing the programme. Predator Free 2050 Ltd Board – Arihia Bennett and Mervyn English
10:00–1015pm MORNING TEA in Amokura Gallery (4th Floor)
CONCURRENT SYMPOSIA ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION THREATENED SPECIES SUMMIT SESSION 1: Chair: Uniting against Invaders Room: Bruce Clarkson Lou Sanson Icon (2nd Floor) Amokura Gallery (4th Floor) 10:15 Freshwater restoration: Challenges and opportunities. The value of threatened species to NZ Incorporated. John Quinn*, Chief Scientist- Freshwater and Estuaries, NIWA Sir Rob Fenwick, Chairman, Predator Free NZ trust
10:30 Our lakes’ health: past, present, future. Susie Wood, Our nature in our place - how DOC is working with Cawthron Institute others to ensure threatened species success. Lou Sanson. Director General, Department of Conservation
Day 3: Wednesday 10 May Day 3: Wednesday 10:45 Havelock North: The role of genomic technologies Kākāpō genomics: sequencing the genomes of an in investigating the world’s largest waterborne entire species. Andrew Digby, DOC campylobacteriosis outbreak. Brent Gilpin*, Science Leader, ESR 11:00 Groundwater biodiversity: a curiosity or major Using an acute toxin for eradication: are you crazy?! ecosystem service provider? Graham Fenwick, NIWA Phil Bell, Zero Invasive Predators
11:15 Managing and predicting tipping points in New What recovery of NI kokako requires. John Innes, Zealand. Johanna Yletyinen, Canterbury University Landcare Research
11:30 Reversing ecosystem tipping points on the Hikurangi Winning against wildings. Keith Briden, DOC floodplain.Bev Clarkson, Landcare Research Manaaki Whenua 11:45 The use of a traditional Māori harvesting method, the Panel: The future of pest control tools in the quest for tau kōura, for monitoring kōura (freshwater crayfish) a Predator-Free 2050. populations. Brendan Hicks, University of Waikato. Chair: Nicola Toki (DOC). Panellists: Robbie van Dam 12:00pm Restoring resilience in the Waiapu catchment (Goodnature); Graeme Elliott (DOC); Phil Bell (ZIP), freshwater socio-ecological system. Peter Edwards, Kelvin Hastie (Crofton Downs Predator Free). Scion
12:15–1:00 LUNCH in Amokura Gallery (4th Floor)
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Conference Programme: Day 3 Wednesday 10th May 2017 cont’d. Day 3: Wednesday 10 May CONCURRENT SYMPOSIA ECOSYTEM RESTORATION THREATENED SPECIES SUMMIT SESSION 1 Chair: Duane Peltzer Uniting against Invaders Room: Icon (2nd Floor) Lou Sanson Amokura Gallery (4th Floor)
1:00 PLENARY: Richard Duncan*, Professor, University 1:00 The DOC Threatened Species Strategy, what it of Canberra. New Zealand in context: why we means and what we’re going to do. Nicola Toki*, have so many threatened species DOC Threatened Species Ambassador
1:20 Australian perspectives on saving threatened plants and animals and Australia’s Threatened Species Strategy in practice. Gregory Andrews Australian Threatened Species Commissioner
1:30 PLENARY: Bruce Clarkson*, Professor, Challenge 1:35 The conversation about feral cats in NZ. Ambassador, University of Waikato. Urban Helen Beattie, Cat Management Strategy Group ecological restoration: the new frontier?
2:00 Restoring Taranaki - creating a new normal. 1:55 Biocontrol as a key weapon for the war on Leigh Honnor, Wild for Taranaki weeds. Lynley Hayes, Landcare Research
2:15 Climate change impacts on biodiversity of 2:10 Core collection development for efficient Aotearoa. Are we leaving our frogs to boil? and targeted operation of seedbanks. Cate Macinnis-ng, University of Auckland Kioumars Ghamkhar, Margot Forde Forage Germplasm Centre
2:30 Beyond riparian fencing: Partnering ecosystem 2:30 The role of botanic gardens in threatened plant scaling, services and society to achieve conservation. Jack Hobbs, Auckland Botanic stream restoration. Katie Collins, University of Gardens and Jeremy Rolfe, DOC Canterbury 2:45 The environmental legacy of modern tropical 2:45 Session 1 Summary: The challenging issues of deforestation. Rob Ewers*, Imperial College, threatened species protection and recovery. London Nicola Toki (DOC) and Gregory Andrews (ATSC)
3:00–3:30pm AFTERNOON TEA in Amokura Gallery (4th Floor)
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Conference Programme: Day 3 Wednesday 10th May 2017 cont’d.
CONCURRENT SYMPOSIA PARTNERING WITH COMMUNITIES THREATENED SPECIES SUMMIT SESSION 2: CONSERVATION WITHOUT BORDERS (beyond Public Conservation land) Chair: Bev Clarkson Lou Sanson Room: Icon (2nd Floor) Amokura Gallery (4th Floor)
3:30 Citizen science for conservation: how can we do 3:30 Perspectives on threatened species better here? Monica Peters*, people+science conservation. Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu
4:00 Biodiverse cities and a kiwi in every garden. 3:50 The future of threatened species in captivity and Claire Freeman, University of Otago the role of zoos in conservation Karen Fifield, Chief Executive Wellington Zoo
4:15 Citizen science for refinement of kauri dieback 4:05 Why business should invest in threatened control tools. Ian Horner, Plant & Food Research species Neal Barclay, GM Meridian Energy
4:30 Ships in the night – the vexed interface of 4:25 Why protecting nature on private land is pivotal environmental policy and ecological limits in to agriculture’s future success. Nuffield Scholar – New Zealand. Marie Brown* Dan Steele, Blue Duck Lodge 4:45 Landscape scale biodiversity restoration - an iwi 4:40 Panel: Opportunities and challenges of recovery and community driven process. Peter Handford, of threatened plants and animals on private Groundtruth and farming land. Panel chair: Scott Simpson, MP. Panellists: William Rolleston (President, 5:00 - Non-traditional partnerships are fundamental Federated Farmers); Mike Jebson (Chief Executive to the management of domestic cats. Myfanwy
Day 3: Wednesday 10 May Day 3: Wednesday of QEII Trust, Ngaire Tyson (Landcare Trust). Emeny, Wellington City Council 5:15 What does the public know about our native 5:10 Closing Address: Director-General of birds? Sophie Fern*, Biologist and story-teller Conservation: Lou Sanson; Threatened Species Ambassador Nicola Toki and Biological Heritage Speakers and delegates to move upstairs to the Director Amokura Gallery for the closing address. Andrea Byrom. 5:25 Karakia, Joe Harawira, DOC
5:30 CONFERENCE CLOSE: Andrea Byrom, Challenge Director
5:45pm DAY 3 CONFERENCE END
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General Information
Conference Venue Messages and Phones Te Papa National Museum Messages received for participants will be put on the 55 Cable Street, Wellington notice board by the registration desk. Tel: +64 4 381 7000 We kindly request that you turn off, or set your mobile phone to silent, during conference sessions. Registration and Information Desk Name Badges The registration and information desk is located inside Amokoura Gallery which is located on Level 4 of the Badge security is in place throughout the conference. museum. Please wear your name badge at all times to prevent being asked for identification. The Registration Desk will open: Monday 8th May 8.00am – 5.30pm Presenters Tuesday 9th May 8.00am – 5.30pm Please hand your presentation over to the AV Wednesday 10th May 8.00am – 4.30pm technician located in the room you are presenting in at least 2 hours before you are due to present. It is best to The desk will be open throughout the conference for do this during one of the break times. enquiries, account payments and messages. You can contact the conference managers on 020 412 39978 Smoking for any conference enquiries. Te Papa is a smoke-free venue. Smokers are asked to Poster Session Reception leave the building before lighting up. Tuesday 9th May – Amokoura Gallery Storage of Luggage 5.30pm – 7.00pm You will be able to leave luggage at the Coat and Bag NZ Biological Heritage invites you to attend a Poster Check which is located at the Ground Floor of Te Papa. Session Reception. Drinks and canapes will be served. There will also be a space by the conference registration desk to store your luggage. Landcare Research are running a competition with the hashtag #BlitzMe which you can enter by taking a selfie Lost and Found with the Landcare Research poster. Please, head to the Registration Desk in Amokoura Science Media Savvy Express Gallery or to the Te Papa Information Desk on Level 2. – 15 minute media training Taxis and Shuttles The Science Media Centre will be at the Crazy & Ambitious conference offering rapid media training for Wellington Airport is a 20-minute drive away from Te researchers with their popular Science Media SAVVY Papa. The average cost of a taxi will be around $35 Express programme. This is a one-on-one training for and the cost of a shuttle will be approximately $20 per researchers to practice speaking about their work in a person. compelling way for a general audience. Sign up at the There are normally taxis waiting outside the Museum Registration Desk! Hotel or they can be ordered by calling 04 384 4444. Shuttles can be booked by calling 04 387 87 87. Accommodation Please ensure you settle your account in full on Teas and Lunches departure with the hotel reception, including all meals, Teas and lunches will be served in Amokoura Gallery telephone calls and mini bar charges. No accounts can which is on Level 4 of the Museum. be charged to the Conference. The caterers have been advised of special dietary Evaluation of the Conference requirements. If you requested a special diet in advance this will be available for you and labelled An electronic online evaluation will be emailed to accordingly. you after the conference. Your feedback will help us evaluate and plan for future events. Disclaimer of Liability Help! The Conference Organising Committee reserves the right to amend any part of the programme or event If you require assistance, any staff member at the should it be necessary. conference registration desk will be more than happy to help you.
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Invited Speakers
CONFERENCE OPENING MONDAY 8TH MAY: 10.00am–10.45am James Buwalda Jan Wright James has consulted on strategy Dr Jan Wright was sworn in as and innovation matters for Parliamentary Commissioner for the government, tertiary education and Environment for a five-year term on industry bodies, including chairing 5 March 2007 and reappointed for a the Better Border Biosecurity second term in early 2012. Jan has research collaboration to work a a Physics degree from Canterbury, more effectively with New Zealand’s a Masters degree in Energy and biosecurity agencies. Resources from Berkeley in California, and a PhD in He has also had extensive and very senior experience Public Policy from Harvard. In 2012 she was awarded in New Zealand government including 11 years in Chief an Honorary Doctorate of Science from Lincoln Executive roles — New Zealand’s Department of Labour University, and in 2015 was made a Companion of the (2003-2007) and Ministry of Research, Science and Royal Society of New Zealand. Prior to her current role, Technology (1996-2003). He also works as a private Jan worked as an independent policy and economic consultant for government and private sector clients consultant for many different government agencies and (mainly in New Zealand), and is the Independent Chair as a member of various Crown Entity Boards. Jan views for ITP New Zealand (the peak body for New Zealand’s climate change as the most significant environmental Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics). threat facing the world, and has produced two major reports on rising sea levels. Other reports have covered He is a graduate of Lincoln, earned his PhD (in plant topics as diverse as fracking, the pesticide 1080, and physiology) at the University of London, and earlier the plight of New Zealand’s longfin eel. Her most in his career was a scientist with MAF and then recent report followed a comprehensive investigation HortResearch. into the complex science of agricultural greenhouse gases. She is currently hard at work researching and Andrea Byrom writing her next report on the decline of New Zealand’s native birds. Andrea’s research interests lie in the ecology of multiple invasive mammal Rangimahora has been educated at Massey University species in New Zealand and their and has spent the last three decades working in both interactive effects on native flora and the health and education sectors in addition she has fauna in tandem with other drivers been a member of NZICA since 1993. of global change such as climate and land use change. She has MONDAY 8TH MAY: 10.45am–11.30am also worked on similar issues in Australia and Africa. Andrea completed an honours degree at the University Kim Tallbear of Otago on the genetics of freshwater copepods Kim TallBear, Associate Professor, before moving to Canada and completing a PhD at the Faculty of Native Studies, University University of British Columbia, where she investigated of Alberta and Canada Research the ecology of Arctic ground squirrels. After she moved Chair in Indigenous Peoples, back to New Zealand, she completed a postdoc on Technoscience & Environment, is the ecology of ferrets in braided riverbed ecosystems. author of Native American DNA: Andrea was then employed as an ecologist by Tribal Belonging and the False Landcare Research. Prior to taking up her role as Promise of Genetic Science. She combines indigenous Director in 2015, Andrea managed Landcare Research’s studies, science and technology studies, feminist invasive weeds, pests and diseases research portfolio. and queer theory to interrogate the nature/culture Andrea is also an Associate Investigator in the Te split in Western society and its role in producing Pūnaha Matatini Centre of Research Excellence, related –isms: colonialism, racism, speciesism, collaborating on projects looking at the role of citizen sexism, and homophobia. She blogs on Indigeneity science in invasive species management, and the & Technoscience at www.kimtallbear.com. She is co- biodiversity outcomes of major pest control regimes in producer of the new Edmonton sexy storytelling show, New Zealand. Prairie Confessions, a northern franchise of the popular Austin, TX Bedpost Confessions. Dr. TallBear is working on a book, Disrupting Settlement, Sex and Nature: An Indigenous Logic of Relationality, that interrogates settler-colonial (and now Indigenous people’s) commitments to private land ownership, state- sanctioned marriage, and monogamy. She is a citizen of
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Invited Speakers the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate in South Dakota. She is MONDAY 8TH MAY: 4.45pm–5.30pm also descended from the Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. Jaqueline Beggs Assoc Prof Jacqueline Beggs is MONDAY 8TH MAY: 11.30pm–12.00pm Director of Research at the School of Biological Sciences, University Sandy Liebhold of Auckland. She has diverse research interests in the biodiversity Liebhold’s career has been devoted and biosecurity of New Zealand to studying the spatial dynamics ecosystems, with a major focus on and ecology of forest insect the ecology and control of introduced Vespula wasps. invasions around the world. His Her research is usually the result of collaboration with work focuses on all phases of the a range of colleagues and she has enjoyed supervising invasion process, including modes more than 40 postgraduate students. Jacqueline of accidental transport of invading serves on several advisory groups including the species, population processes affecting species Biosecurity Ministerial Advisory Committee and the establishment, invasions spread and ecological effects Kākāpō Recovery Group (Department of Conservation). of invading species in forests. He has also worked on Jacqueline has published more than 80 peer- applying knowledge of these processes to develop reviewed papers and has ensured that her research more effective strategies for managing pest invasions. is disseminated to the wider community via public Liebhold has served in an advisory capacity on several meetings, documentaries and social media. insect incursion programs in New Zealand and is currently working as part of an interdisciplinary team seeking novel approaches for eradicating nascent MONDAY 8TH MAY: 5.30pm–6.00pm insect populations. Hon Paul Goldsmith MONDAY 8TH MAY: 2.00pm–2.15pm Born in Mt Eden and having attended Auckland Grammar School Paul Phillip Cassey lives with his wife and their four children in the Epsom electorate. As a trans-disciplinary scientist, First elected off the National Party Dr Cassey brings critical analytical list in 2011, Paul served as the techniques to the study of invasion Chair of the Parliamentary Finance ecology, wildlife trade, and and Expenditure Select Committee. Following the biosecurity risk management - 2014 General Election he was appointed Minister areas characterised by complexity of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and Associate and uncertainty. His research Minister for ACC. group focuses on analytical, conceptual, and applied techniques for conducting high impact research. In 2016 Paul was appointed Minister of Tertiary His research has led to significant advances in Education, Skills and Employment, Minister for Science the discipline of global change biology, and the and Innovation, and Minister for Regulatory Reform, and prioritisation of evidence-based biosecurity decision- joined the Cabinet. Before entering Parliament, Paul making. He works across the biosecurity continuum created his own business as a historian and biographer with existing funded projects in exotic vertebrates, the focusing on New Zealand’s history and economic wildlife trade, emerging diseases, marine biosecurity, development. His last books were biographies of Alan established pests, and transport risks.Dr Cassey’s Gibbs (Serious Fun) and Sir William Gallagher (Legend). research interests align most closely with Programme Between 2007 and 2010 he served as an Auckland 2, Reducing Risks and Threats. City Councillor. Paul is an enthusiastic pianist and has a broad interest in the arts; he is a 2nd dan black belt in Tae Kwon Do and plays on the right wing for the Parliamentary Rugby team.
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TUESDAY 9TH MAY: 8.30am–9.00am UK (MSc in Epidemiology, 1993). He was lecturer in Epidemiology (University of Liverpool), lecturer in Farm Fiona Carswell Animal Studies (University of Bristol) and Wellcome Fiona’s research career started Trust Research Training Fellow in Clinical Epidemiology with leaf-level photosynthesis (University of Bristol). He was awarded a Senior and has been expanding in scale Research Fellowship in 1999 and a Personal Chair in since that time. Leaves were soon Veterinary Epidemiology, University of Liverpool, in replaced by forest-scale carbon 2002. Prior to joining Massey, he was Head of the exchange in the Amazon Basin Defra Epidemiology Fellowship Unit. thanks to a post-doctoral fellowship His main research interests are: Molecular with the University of Edinburgh. After returning to epidemiology, pathogen evolution, ecosystem health, New Zealand, Fiona was interested in working with food and environmental pathogens, particularly landowners who wanted to regenerate native forests Campylobacter, E. coli, Cryptosporidium and on farmland and for ten years she led a programme Salmonella. at Landcare Research that enabled these owners to secure carbon revenue in order to achieve restoration goals. Fiona’s attention has now turned to the people TUESDAY 9TH MAY: 9.30am–10am that conduct environmental research. As Chief Scientist for Landcare Research, Fiona’s role is to Andrew Young enable researchers to achieve both science excellence Professor Young is based at CSIRO, and on-the-ground results for NZ’s most pressing Black Mountain, Canberra. He is a environmental issues. She sees the Biological Heritage plant ecological geneticist, and is NSC as a vehicle for researchers and practitioners from the Director of the CSIRO-hosted productive to conservation lands to create solutions National Research Collections that would not have been possible via any party Australia. The 15 million specimens working in isolation. held in these collections, and their associated genomes and contextual data, represent a vast amount of underpinning biological knowledge TUESDAY 9TH MAY: 9.00am–9.30am about Australia’s unique biodiversity. Collections and databases are also vital to NZ’s Biological Heritage Nigel French National Science Challenge because they underpin Bachelor of Veterinary Science significant research areas such as taxonomy, genetics (University of Bristol), Master of and genomics, and ecology, making them vital Science in Epidemiology (London resources for conservation as well as for primary School of Hygiene and Tropical production. Prof. Young’s work also links with the Atlas Medicine), Diploma of London School of Living Australia, thus providing a vital link to this of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, international resource for the Challenge. Diploma of European College of Veterinary Public Health, Membership of Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, PhD (University of Bristol), TUESDAY 9TH MAy: 10.30am–10.45am Fellow of Royal Society of New Zealand. Mick Clout Nigel is currently Establishment Director of the New Mick Clout is an Emeritus Professor Zealand Food Safety Science and Research Centre, of Conservation Ecology at Director of the Infectious Disease Research Centre, the University of Auckland. He and Executive Director of the Molecular Epidemiology is a vertebrate ecologist with and Public Health laboratory in the Hopkirk Research longstanding interests in the ecology Institute. He was recently elected as Fellow of and conservation of native birds the Royal Society of New Zealand. Nigel is also an and the behaviour and management Associate member of the New Zealand Institute for of invasive mammals. He led the IUCN/SSC Invasive Advanced Studies. He is Visiting Professor at the Species Specialist Group from 1995-2009 and chaired Universities of Liverpool and Surrey, UK, an Honorary the NZ Biosecurity Ministerial Advisory Committee until Professor at the University of Otago, a Diplomate of the 2012. Mick has published many papers and supervised European College of Veterinary Public Health and a many research projects. He continues to be actvely Fellow of Food Standards Australia New Zealand. Nigel involved in science for conservation, chairs the Kakapo is a graduate of the University of Bristol UK (BVSc and Recovery Group, and is a current member of the NZ MRCVS in 1987 and PhD in 1993), University of London Conservation Authority.
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TUESDAY 9TH MAY: 10.30am–10.45 TUESDAY 9TH MAY: 11.00am–11.15am Peter Dearden Campbell Leckie Peter’s research focuses on the Campbell Leckie is a senior evolution of shape and form in operational manager with Hawake’s animals. By studying how the genes Bay Regional Council. His roles and pathways that make an animal have included leading plant and during embryogenesis change animal pest control, and forestry over evolutionary time he seeks to and sustainable land management understand how shape evolves. programmes in the Hawke’s Bay Peter studies not only the way evolution interacts with region. He is particularly interested in the public sector development, but how the environment influences the programmes and solutions that deliver both economic way these genes and pathways work. and environmental benefits to the community. In this context, he has a strong interest in the potential role of Peter’s work focuses particular on insects, especially high UMF mānuka on steep hill country to strengthen bees. Much of his work involves genetic studies of economic and environmental outcomes for farming honeybees to support the beekeeping industry, and in enterprises. searching for novel bee-friendly insecticides. Peter also has a strong interest in science communication and community engagement, and is the TUESDAY 9TH MAY: 11.15am–11.30am Director of Genetics Otago and the leader of the Lab- in-a-Box project. Jan Hania Jan is of Ngati Tuwharetoa and Ngati Raukawa-ki-te-Tonga descent having TUESDAY 9TH MAY: 10.45am–11.00am grown up in South Auckland. Jan has always enjoyed a passion for Andy Lowe the outdoors and the environment, Andy Lowe, MNZM, is the owner climbing, diving, mountain biking and Managing Director of Lowe and just being. Jan’s early career Corporation Limited, a privately was as an electronics and systems engineer mostly in owned meat by-products business the New Zealand Airforce with some earlier time with that processes and markets Telecom. While in the RNZAF he also developed skills finished hides, skins and rendering in strategy and leadership training and development, material. As well as owning tannery, international stakeholder liaison and relationship fellmongery, trucking and rendering businesses management. His growing passion for the outdoors throughout New Zealand, the company is also involved and the environment led to a career change in his late in farming, property development and investment. 20s where he spent time at Canterbury and Lincoln Lowe Corporation and the Lowe family are well-known in University completing undergraduate and post grad Hawkes Bay for their generosity and community support. work in Natural Resources Engineering. For the next Andy’s passion for the outdoors and conservation, 10 years he consulted and worked for clients including together with his innovation, determination and vision regional government, in hazard mitigation, water honed in the meat and by-products industry, led him to resource protection and environmental restoration become a developer of special character landscapes both in New Zealand and overseas, before joining that not only enhance the environment but also DOC in 2009. Jan spent 7 years with the Department enable people to actively live and work within that of Conservation leading teams at district, regional and environment. national level building partnerships and developing large scale collaborative impact projects focused In particular, Andy is the initiator and vision keeper on people, biodiversity and water. Now working for behind Cape Sanctuary — 2,500 hectares of land on the NEXT Foundation as Environmental Director, Jan the Cape Kidnappers Peninsula protected by a 10km leads the Taranaki Mounga Project and assists with long vermin proof fence. This is believed to be the development and evaluation of a number of NEXTs largest privately owned and funded wildlife preserve environmental endeavours. on the New Zealand mainland and is now home to the widest variety of native bird species living on mainland coastal New Zealand. Andy’s vision is to create a pest free New Zealand in which native species can be protected from extinction while integrating nature with human habitation, food production and recreation.
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TUESDAY 9TH MAY: 11.30am–11.45 in both the Biological Heritage and Sustainable Seas National Science Challenges where he is, respectively, Paul Atkins involved in developing new genetic based biocontrol Paul has had a life-long passion for tools for e.g. mammalian pests and developing eDNA ornithology and conservation. He as a tool for biodiversity and biosecurity assessment. took over as CEO of ZEALANDIA in mid-November 2015, having TUESDAY 9TH MAY: 2.00pm–2.15pm first been introduced to the Karori Sanctuary project in early 2000 Richard Bowman following which he became a Richard Bowman is Biosecurity volunteer in the sanctuary, monitoring kaka and doing Manager for Environment Southland, supplementary feeding duties. He is also on the board based in Invercargill. He graduated of directors of three start-up companies, two of which from the University of Otago with he Chairs: Boutiq Science Ltd, a nanotechnology a BSc Hons majoring in geology in spinout company; Ferronova, a company focusing 1975 and returned to complete a on use of magnetic nanoparticles and sensors for MBA degree in 1993/4. He worked biomedical applications; and MEVO, a car-share as an exploration geologist for various companies scheme. Previously Paul was CEO of the National from 1976 to 1992 in South Africa, New Zealand Energy Research Institute (NERI), and prior to that was and Australia. Since 1994 he has been involved in Director of Business Development for Izon Science biosecurity and biodiversity management in Southland Ltd, a nanotechnology instrumentation company. but has also played an active national role through During his time as General Manager of International the BioManagers Group and its predecessors. During Investments with the Foundation for Research, Science this time he has been involved in the development and Technology, Paul established the Foundation’s of pest strategies and plans, the operation of major International Group, negotiating joint research funding pest management programmes and the coordination agreements with Korea and Japan, as well as research and promotion of biosecurity policy and management collaborations in the USA and Europe. He was a nationally. He has a strong interest in the application of Director in the British Council for almost 20 years, and research and technology to biosecurity and biodiversity has worked in over 40 countries around the world. management. Paul holds an MSc and has post-graduate qualifications in both business and marketing management. He is a Chartered Physicist and member of the Institute TUESDAY 9TH MAY: 3.30pm–3.45pm of Physics, a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute, a member of the Institute of Directors and, Stephen Goldson until late 2015, was inaugural Chair of the New Zealand Principal Scientist, AgResearch; Smart Grid Forum and Vice-chair of the IEA’s Demand- Professorial Fellow, BioProtection side Implementing Agreement. Research Centre; Advisor to the Office of the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor; FRSNZ FNZIAHS TUESDAY 9TH MAY: 1.30pm–2.00pm Professor Stephen Goldson has Neil Gemmell spent much of his career as an applied scientist working on long-term biological Professor Neil Gemmell is the control projects in the Crown Research Institute AgResearch Chair in Reproduction AgResearch and prior to that, in the Ministry for Primary and Genomics at the University Industries. As a result, he has worked on research for of Otago and the Head of the industry and the public good (e.g. as the Director of the Department of Anatomy. He leads a B3 Consortium). His work has focused mainly on the research group that blends ecology, biological suppression of New Zealand’s worst exotic population, conservation and pasture pest species. This is an area he continues evolutionary biology with technological spin-offs from to be very focused on currently as it relates to rapid the various genome projects. A recurring theme in his evolution. research is that of reproduction, with past and current projects spanning mating systems and mate choice Stephen also works as strategist to the Chief Science sperm function, sex determination, sex allocation, and Advisor to the Prime Minister’s, Professor Sir Peter inter-sexual genomic conflict. Work in his lab over Gluckman, concentrating mainly on Crown Research the past two decades has synthesised genomics, Institute and environmental issues. In 2007 Stephen population genetics and evolutionary theory to provide was awarded the New Zealand Institute of Agricultural research services to key end users in the conservation and Horticultural Science’s Jubilee Medal for his and biosecurity arenas. Currently he has involvement contribution to primary industries research. He is a
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Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Agricultural WEDNESDAY 10TH MAY: 10.45am–11.00am Science (1998), a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society of London (2000) and a Fellow of the Royal Brent Gilpin Society of New Zealand (2006). In 2009 he was Dr Brent Gilpin is a Science Leader elected to the Council of the Royal Society of New in the Environmental Science team Zealand and between 2009 and 2012 acted as Vice- at the Institute of Environmental President, Biological and Life Sciences. He was also Science & Research (ESR) in the Chair of the Academy of the Royal Society of New Christchurch. Brent is a molecular Zealand, 2011-12. biologist whose primary research interests include the application WEDNESDAY 10TH MAY: 8.30am–9.00am of genetic analysis techniques to understanding foodborne and waterborne outbreaks and disease, Joshua Viers microbial water quality, faecal source tracking, and zoonoses. He has been involved in outbreak Professor Viers is a watershed investigations and product recalls related to a scientist with expertise in resource number of organisms including Listeria, E. coli O157, management and environmental Salmonella and Campylobacter. He is now focused decision making. He is a former in the introduction of whole genome sequencing and Executive Associate Director of the metagenomics analysis through his involvement in Center for Watershed Sciences at UC PulseNet International (www.pulsenetinternational. Davis, and he joined the faculty at UC org) and the Biological Heritage National Science Merced in August 2013 as an associate professor in the Challenge. Brent is the author of over 50 refereed School of Engineering. He is also UC Merced’s Director publications, and 4 book chapters, and is an adjunct of the Center for Information Technology Research senior fellow at the University of Canterbury. in the Interest of Society (CITRIS), which promotes collaborative research on California’s pressing WEDNESDAY 10TH MAY: 1.00pm–1.30pm environmental, social and health care problems. His research interests and projects investigate the Richard Duncan geospatial aspects of watershed science with a specific Professor Duncan’s specialties focus on the watersheds of California’s North Coast, are in ecology, weed biology, Sierra Nevada, and Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. His and conservation, with a focus on watershed research activities include aspects of natural biological invasions and extinctions. flow regimes, climate change, water management, His recent work examines the ways land use, sustainable viticulture, freshwater ecosystem in which invasive species arrive, conservation and riparian restoration. establish, spread and impact natural ecosystems. Richard was formerly a member of the Bio- Protection Research Centre at Lincoln University. WEDNESDAY 10TH MAY: 10.15am–10.30am Professor Duncan’s research interests span all three John Quinn Challenge Programmes. John is a stream ecologist with a BSc Hons from University of WEDNESDAY 10TH MAY: 1.30pm–2.00pm Otago and a PhD from Massey University. His research interests Bruce Clarkson include nutrient attenuation within Professor Bruce Clarkson is the rivers, and understanding and University of Waikato’s Deputy Vice- mitigating the effects of forestry and Chancellor Research and leads an pastoral agricultural land uses and the rehabilitation MBIE funded research programme and restoration of streams and lakes. John has People, Cities and Nature: restoring established long-term studies and is interested in indigenous nature in urban integrated approaches involving land and aquatic environments. In 2016 he received research and social and biophysical science. He is the Royal Society of New Zealand Charles Fleming currently a member of the Technical Leaders Group Award for environmental achievement. Professor for the Waikato/Waipa Healthy Rivers Plan Change Clarkson is a board member of the Australasian chapter and co-lead of the Innovative and Resilient Land and of the International Society for Ecological Restoration, Water Management Theme of the Our Land and Water on the Governance Group for the Building Better National Science Challenge. Homes, Towns and Cities National Science Challenge and is ambassador for the New Zealand’s Biological Heritage National Science Challenge.
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WEDNESDAY 10TH MAY: 2.45pm–3.00pm WEDNESDAY 10TH MAY: 4.30pm–4.45pm Rob Ewers Marie Brown Professor Ewers works on spatial Marie holds degrees in science patterns of forest ecosystems, and law, including a PhD from the and the biodiversity contained University of Waikato, focusing on within those forests. His research compliance with biodiversity offset involves investigating and trying requirements under the Resource to predict patterns of forest cover Management Act 1991. From 2005- from local through to global scales, 2010 Marie worked for North Shore sampling of taxa within selected landscapes located City Council, first in RMA compliance and monitoring in both temperate and tropical parts of the world, and latterly in strategy and policy for the natural and manipulative experiments in both the field and environment. Marie completed her PhD alongside lab. Most of his work uses invertebrates as a model working as an independent consultant, before joining system, with a focus on beetles. A large recent initiative the Environmental Defence Society from 2013 to 2017 is the Stability of Altered Forest Ecosystems (SAFE) in which she was the organisation’s Senior Policy Project. This is one of the world’s largest ecological Analyst. Marie was the lead researcher for five key experiments, taking advantage of a planned conversion technical projects including a major investigation of of forest to oil palm in Borneo to experimentally design biodiversity management in New Zealand, a review a landscape. of the environmental outcomes of the RMA and a Professor Ewers’ research interests also span all three feasibility study for biodiversity banking. In addition she Challenge Programmes. managed the organisation’s social media, participated in several planning processes as an expert witness and WEDNESDAY 10TH MAY: 3.30pm–4.00pm delivered more than 80 presentations on a range of Monica Peters key environmental issues. Monica works at the interface between science and the public. WEDNESDAY 10TH MAY: 5.15pm–5.30pm She has a background spanning fine arts, conservation, ecology and Sophie Fern international development and has Sophie Fern is a biologist and worked in remote places including storyteller who is interested in Mongolia, Borneo, Raoul Is. and the gap between the stories that Hamilton. Though eclectic, her background provides we tell and the stories that are her with a range of ways to investigate the environment understood about our natural world. and human relationships to it. After finishing a PhD at She became interested in science Waikato University on community–led environmental communication in Woods Hole, USA, restoration, Monica developed a national citizen where she studied cuttlefish behaviour for her master’s science project for the NZ Landcare Trust. The 3-yr degree and helped the BBC film her research. She has project is designed to support the creation a national written about Chatham Island black robins while on citizen science movement that is vibrant, produces Rangatira Island and watched Southern right whales robust data and engages diverse sectors of society. while cooking in the Auckland Islands. She juggles She has a strong interest in science communication, her research with working in tertiary education, writing blogs regularly (www.monicalogues.com), and sends and presenting a natural history radio programme and the occasional flurry of tweets (@monica.a.peters). writing science for kids.
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PLENARY 10.00 – 10.45 PLENARY 10.45-11.30 TAONGA OF AN ISLAND NATION: SAVING DECOLONIZING SCIENCE AND NEW ZEALAND’S NATIVE BIRDS TECHNOLOGY Wright J Tallbear K Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment University of Alberta Great efforts are being made to turn around the Indigenous peoples are usually at the receiving end of decline of the kiwi, New Zealand’s most iconic bird, but the scientific gaze. Biomedical and policy interventions most of our other native birds are also in trouble. The aimed at indigenous populations have often been Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment is structured by colonial world views. This talk highlights investigating what the future might hold for them. Is it indigenous resistance to colonial research, and possible to restore to the mainland native birdlife that both researchers and indigenous peoples’ efforts to is abundant, resilient and diverse? In this presentation, transform scientific research, technology development Dr Wright will discuss the motivation behind her and training in order to increase the benefit of investigation and give some insights into her current technoscience for indigenous peoples. It also highlights thinking. indigenous governance of and through technoscience. Dr Jan Wright was sworn in as Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment for a 5-year term NOTES: on 5 March 2007 and reappointed for a second term in early 2012. Jan has a physics degree from Canterbury, a Master’s degree in Energy and Resources from Berkeley in California, and a PhD in Public Policy from Harvard. In 2012 she was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Science from Lincoln University, and in 2015 was made a Companion of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Prior to her current role, Jan worked as an independent policy and economic consultant for many different government agencies and as a member of various Crown entity boards.
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PLENARY 11.30-12.00 CONCURRENT SYMPOSIA: INDIGENOUS VALUES – BIOCULTURAL HERITAGE NEW APPROACHES TO MANAGING ICON INSECT INCURSIONS: AN INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION 13.00-13.15 Liebhold A CRAZY AND AMBITIOUS: ENSHRINING USDA Forest Service, West Virginia VISION MĀTAURANGA INTO THE In virtually every corner of the world non-native insects BIOLOGICAL HERITAGE CHALLENGE. have accidentally been transported to novel habitats, Black A, Mark-Shadbolt M with many of these species having immense impacts 1Bio-Protection Research Centre, Lincoln University & on agriculture, forestry, human health and ecosystem Biological Heritage National Science Challenge, Landcare services. Given these effects, governments are Research, New Zealand increasingly implementing post-border biosecurity Why do Māori researchers strongly encourage ‘Māori programmes to survey for new incursions and eradicate perspectives’ in New Zealand’s national science newly discovered nascent populations of potentially framework? Why do they insist that kaupapa Māori damaging species. Over the last two decades New research is a viable methodology for conducting Zealand has been the site of several major insect research, and why does the science system support eradication programmes, and these programmes have this? Aside from meeting Treaty obligations, been remarkably successful, gaining considerable what benefit does all of this have for science and international recognition. researchers? Successfully carrying out eradication can be Dr Black and Ms Mark-Shadbolt will discuss how challenging, not only because of the difficulty of totally enshrining Mātauranga Māori (MM) and Vision eliminating low-density populations, but also because Mātauranga into the Biological Heritage Challenge incursions typically occur in urban landscapes, where has been a strategic priority from the very conception residents may be adversely affected by non-target of this Challenge, and will examine the benefits that impacts of eradication measures (e.g. aerial spraying have accrued to the science community from such of pesticides). In response to these challenges there a commitment. They will discuss Māori researchers’ have been substantial advances in the development obligations to work with their communities, often of strategies for successfully carrying out insect outside the discipline they were trained in. They eradication, but there continues to be a need for new note how this offers them a view into how others approaches. I describe here the historical evolution see science and gives them an advantage and of the science behind insect eradication, highlighting opportunity to listen to opinions outside the private the important role of international collaboration in world of research. They will also discuss those research this area of research. New Zealand continues to play approaches that see Māori step out of the typical a key role in this research, and the success of this subject and participant roles into those of research work holds considerable promise for the development designers and leaders. of new approaches for successfully preventing the Using ‘Māori research’ as the exemplar, they will establishment of damaging species while minimising also discuss their concerns with science denial in impacts on residents. society, which was manifested most recently in the #marchforscience, including the dangers of denial from NOTES: scientists and the system itself (#sciencenotsilence). The aim is to highlight the lessons that all New Zealand-based scientists/researchers could learn from the way Māori researchers operate.
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13.15-13.30 13.30-13.45 WHY SHOULD WE INCLUDE VISION ENGAGING TANGATA WHENUA: A MODEL MĀTAURANGA AND MĀTAURANGA FOR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT MĀORI IN OUR RESEARCH?: A NON-MĀORI Marsh A PERSPECTIVE Plant & Food Research Byrom A Biosecurity issues have an impact on key crops NZ’s Biological Heritage National Science Challenge and environmental values across New Zealand and Ten years ago the then Ministry of Research, Science Australia. For example, the tomato–potato psyllid and Technology released the Vision Mātauranga (TPP) has devastated commercial potato and tomato (VM) Policy to ‘Unlock the innovation potential of production in New Zealand, as has Psa in kiwifruit. We Māori knowledge, resources and people to assist have seen the demise of Hort 16A and the introduction New Zealanders to create a better future’. This policy of Gold 3 as a result. framework proved to be an excellent starting point A key outcome for the project team has been the ability for me when I took over my role as Director of New for indigenous communities to participate and be part Zealand’s Biological Heritage National Science of the response, and for relevant regulatory authorities Challenge in 2015. In particular, the four research and industries to better manage the social, cultural, themes outlined in the VM policy (indigenous environmental and economic impacts of biosecurity innovation, environmental sustainability, improving threats. The aim is participation in biosecurity strategies health and social wellbeing, and exploring indigenous through improved bicultural engagement models that knowledge) align strongly with our Challenge’s mission build empowerment and ownership in indigenous and goals. communities and their response to biosecurity threats. The vision is inspiring: ‘to envision knowledge, The team have developed an engagement model to think about new ways of doing things, to find adapted to the indigenous peoples of both Australia answers, to solve problems’. Ten years on, how well and New Zealand and their communities. By working have we in the research community actually done with community, our team developed an understanding in helping to implement this vision? How well do we of what drives and motivates them, their needs and really understand the distinctive aspects of ‘Māori desires, and the outcomes sought when faced with knowledge’, and how effectively do we take these unfamiliar circumstances like new incursions. There are distinctive aspects and world views into consideration eight phases to the Indigenous Engagement Model, when conducting our research? supported by guiding principles that are designed to In this talk I will take a journey through my own highlight the critical steps to access, act, review, reflect research and into the Challenge environment, where I on and plan an agreed method of approach. Key to this have effectively been ‘on the other side of the fence’ is the immediate inclusion rather than exclusion from as a funding provider aiming to put the VM policy the conversation of these communities . into practice. We have achieved some inspirational successes in implementing VM in the Biological NOTES: Heritage Challenge, and I will highlight some of these. Equally, however, in the Challenge we have not always lived up to the aspirational vision laid down in the VM Policy. I will explore some of these potential barriers to implementation, and suggest ways in which we could overcome these barriers as we look to the future.
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13.45-14.00 14.00-14.15 A TUAWHENUA MĀORI WORLD VIEW WHAT’S MĀORI ABOUT MĀORI SCIENCE?: DEFINES RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE PŪTAIAO PARADOX PEOPLE AND BIODIVERSITY. Stewart G Lyver P1, Timoti P, Tahi B2, Matamua R3, School of Education, AUT University Jones C2 This presentation is catalysed by my role on a reo 1Landcare Research, Lincoln, 2Tūhoe Tuawhenua Trust, Ruatāhuna, 3Faculty of Māori and Indigenous Studies, Māori science resource project funded by the Ministry University of Waikato, of Business, Innovation and Employment under their Unlocking Curious Minds programme. The principal Indigenous peoples’ world views offer an alternative investigator scientist genuinely desired to share with tool for identifying and accommodating key community Māori school students her passion for a particular principles, beliefs and values within landscape and group of endemic organisms, including her collation of biodiversity planning, management and decision- traditional Māori knowledge and practices in relation making. We worked with kaumātua, forest users and to these organisms. Having recently published on tribal educators from Tūhoe Tuawhenua to identify the Curious Minds science strategy that leads to this key elements within an indigenous world view and funding, I use my experience with this biology resource construct a framework to understand how those project to help me assess the logic of the programme, elements link to each other. We then explored the which seems to assume that teachers’ lack of science applicability of the world view within a local ecological knowledge is ‘the problem’ with science education, and context. Whakapapa (genealogy), whenua (land) that scientists could more successfully teach science in and tangata (people) were interconnected domains schools. I discuss vignettes from the project in the light that formed the conceptual basis of our framework. of my decades of practice and research in pūtaiao, the Within these domains, mauri (life essence), mana Māori-medium science learning area in Te Marautanga (authority) and vitality (ihi) formed an assemblage of o Aotearoa, which is the ‘partner’ national curriculum intricately linked elements that guided the expression written in te reo Māori. My presentation provokes and understanding of the human relationship with dominant understandings about science education, the environment. We applied this framework to a and questions the growing popularity of ‘translating cultural keystone species for Tuawhenua, the kererū science into Māori’ as a solution to longstanding Māori (Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae, New Zealand pigeon) inequities in science, which start at school. to elucidate this human–environment relationship. Indigenous world views have a key role in defining indigenous peoples’ aspirations and relationship to biodiversity and the environment. Cultural expressions NOTES: and metaphors that emerge from the application of an indigenous world view need to be recognised as core components of any modern conservation management framework. Political and participatory processes that support the application of indigenous peoples’ mental models and cultural expressions are therefore required.
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14.15-14.30 14.30-14.45 DISRUPTING THE NARRATIVE: MĀORI PREVENTING A FATAL ATTRACTION: STUDENT ENGAGEMENT IN SCIENCE DISRUPTING THE SPREAD OF KAURI Manu N DIEBACK DISEASE Massey University Gerth M University of Otago The Pūhoro STEM Academy seeks to address the disproportionately low levels of Māori student Phytophthora agathidicida is the causative agent of engagement and success in sciences. Through the kauri dieback disease. Kauri are taonga and a keystone establishment of a broad learning community after species that is absolutely critical for the health and one year, the Pūhoro STEM Academy increased biodiversity of the surrounding ecosystem. One key Māori student engagement and achievement in to the devastating spread of soil-borne Phytophthora robust science curricula and improved collaboration are free-swimming cells, called zoospores. Zoospores and engagement among science and technology swim through water-logged soils, and once a zoospore educators, learners, scientists and whānau, both within finds a host plant, it encysts on the root and initiates the the classroom and in the community. This presentation infection. will explore the elements of the Pūhoro collaborative Our idea is that the spread of kauri dieback can be model, focus on the interaction between members mitigated by disrupting the ability of zoospores to of the Pūhoro learning community, and discuss the ‘smell’ and navigate towards their host plants. Anyone potential to contribute to meaningful Māori economic who has swatted a hungry mosquito away from their transformation. arm – or followed their own nose towards fresh coffee – will appreciate the importance of chemosensory cues for insects and mammals. Microbes such as Phytophthora also display surprisingly sophisticated NOTES: sensory behaviours: they sense the chemical composition of their environment, and use this information to move towards chemo-attractants (e.g. host roots) and flee from chemo-repellents (e.g. noxious chemicals and toxins). Phytophthora zoospores also exhibit this chemotactic ‘homing’ behaviour. Though very little is known about chemotaxis in P. agathidicida, we have recently shown for the first time that P. agathidicida zoospores are chemotactically attracted to kauri roots. Now, by combining biochemistry and mātauranga Māori, we are working on identifying the chemical signals from kauri and other native plants that naturally attract or repel P. agathidicida zoospores. Our research will increase our understanding of how this pathogen uses chemotaxis to spread through the environment, locate kauri trees and initiate infection. This knowledge can be used to develop new approaches for mitigating the spread of kauri dieback and protecting iconic individual kauri trees and stands.
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14.45-15.00 CONCURRENT SYMPOSIA: BIOSECURITY 2025 AMOKURA GALLERY AHI PEPE MOTHNET Anderson B 13.00-13.15 Landcare Research / Rutherford Discovery Fellow OVERVIEW OF BIOSECURITY IN NEW The key to the success of Ahi Pepe MothNet is weaving ZEALAND: OPPORTUNITIES TO MAKE A together culture, ecology, language and science. Two DIFFERENCE fundamental challenges for New Zealand society are Smith R the loss of connection with the natural world and low Ministry for Primary Industries diversity in the science and technology sector. Ahi Pepe MothNet addresses these challenges through Roger Smith, Chief Operations Officer at the Ministry capturing children’s natural curiosity about insects and for Primary Industries (MPI), will give an overview the nocturnal world. Moths are an under-appreciated of biosecurity in MPI, and will indicate science and but essential and highly responsive part of our technology needs to prepare for the future. Today’s ecosystem. Ahi Pepe MothNet engages the public biosecurity system comes with a number of challenges and raises the appreciation of moths as ecological and opportunities, and partnership in science and indicators of the health and connectedness of our innovation will be key to addressing them. natural world. Ahi Pepe MothNet provides teachers, students and whānau with the skills, resources and connections to run a nationally significant scientific NOTES: experiment. A citizen science initiative, led by Landcare Research providing hands-on engagement with scientific thinking, processes and methods, enables Ahi Pepe MothNet Champions to identify, strengthen and restore connections between their culture and science. There are three main components: • Puka Whakamārama o Te Pepe Nui (beginners’ guides to the macro-moths), developed through our collaboration with the Ahi Pepe MothNet partners • capacity building workshop with Ahi Pepe MothNet champions • passing on the knowledge through the science experiment run in the schools.
Developing Puka Whakamārama o Te Pepe Nui involved: • conceptualising in a Kāi Tahu context, language and culture, and illustrating with whakataukī, stories, and specially commissioned graphic design • leveraging biological collections and Landcare Research image dataset images (stacked photos of macro moths produced by Birgit Rhode, based on New Zealand Arthropod Collection specimens) • science expertise in quantitative ecology and New Zealand moths. Our vision is that Ahi Pepe MothNet will become a nationwide long-term recording scheme to rival the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme, with primary schools collecting standardised quantitative data on the relative abundances of moth species across the length and breadth of New Zealand.
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13.15-13.30 13.30-13.45 BIOSECURITY: ARE WE REALLY TRYING TO END-TO-END INNOVATIVE SCIENCE STOP THE TIDE? ACROSS THE PLANT BORDER O’Neil B BIOSECURITY CONTINUUM Kiwifruit Vine Health Teulon D Plant & Food Research There is a school of thought that with the exponential increase in travel and trade each year – originating New threats to our valued pastoral, forestry, from every corner of the planet – it is only a matter of horticulture, cropping and natural plant systems time before all the world’s exotic pests and pathogens from increasing and changing trade and tourism of plants and animals that could establish in New and climate change are challenging New Zealand’s Zealand’s primary sector and conservation estate will world-recognised biosecurity system. Biosecurity do so. The belief is that although some of these pests 2025 recognises the imperative for a science-based and pathogens are of course able to fly or blow over biosecurity system with effective collaboration between the ditch and arrive under their own steam, many more science providers, industry, government and iwi, to could either hitch a ride or be smuggled in with the enhance biosecurity outcomes. Operational activities mindboggling amount of trade and travel occurring. based on innovative research are required across the The big question is, if this is true, aren’t we only border biosecurity continuum, including: delaying the inevitable? And in the process spending • risk assessment: identifying hazards, assessing risk hundreds of millions of dollars with the false hope that and ascertaining the optimal intervention points for we can keep unwanted organisms out of New Zealand? mitigation strategies Should we instead be selling the X-ray machines to • pathway risk management: reducing risks the scrap metal dealers and giving the beagles to along importation pathways by developing and Facebook animal lovers? Should we re-direct the implementing new management tools money saved from no longer needing a biosecurity • diagnostics: developing and implementing fast, border, investigation, surveillance and response cost-effective, generically applicable, reliable and capability into the National Science Challenge to accurate diagnostic methods and tools develop new 21st century tools and management • surveillance: developing and applying knowledge approaches to minimise the impacts of the plethora of and tools that ensure investment in surveillance inevitable arrivals over the coming decades? provides optimal returns This is a scenario that most countries around the world • eradication and response: increasing preparedness seem to have already adopted. They have either never for responses by developing and applying tools to had biosecurity capability and investment along the support robust decision-making, and by delivering same lines as New Zealand, or they have long ago effective and acceptable response options. dropped their efforts in this area because it proved to be too hard to maintain with so many ‘unwanteds’ This presentation illustrates innovative research across getting through the safety net. Should New Zealand the plant border biosecurity continuum to deliver consider a similar pathway? measurable and substantial science-based solutions to reduce the rate of establishment of high-impact, damaging and unwanted pests, diseases and weeds NOTES: threatening New Zealand.
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14.00-14.15 15.30-15.45 FROM PETS TO PESTS: THREAT OF IN SEARCH OF THE CHESHIRE CAT’S SMILE INVASION FROM THE TRADE IN NEW Kean J1,2, Phillips C2,3, Meurisse N2,4, Bulman ALIEN SPECIES L2,4, Anderson D2,5, MacLellan R6, Stevens P6, Cassey P Stephenson B6 University of Adelaide 1AgResearch, 2Better Border Biosecurity (B3), 3AgResearch, 4Scion, 5Landcare Research, 6Ministry for Primary Industries The growth and commercialisation of the Internet has greatly modified the environment in which pet markets Over ecological time, populations wax and wane like and wildlife trade can operate. The rapid evolution the gradual appearance and disappearance of Lewis and diversity of online platforms and marketplaces Carroll’s Cheshire cat, whose smile always appears first demands innovative approaches to both surveillance and lingers longest. In biosecurity we are particularly and compliance in relation to keeping alien species. interested in finding nascent invading populations early As these online markets grow, so too does the risk so that they can be eradicated or managed before that they will result in new vertebrate introductions they boom. Conversely, in biodiversity protection we and invasions. The unreported incursion of a new (at- are often concerned with finding and protecting those large) alien vertebrate species is a serious emerging rare species that may be fading away. Biosecurity biosecurity risk, and creates special imperatives to and biodiversity practitioners have usually worked identify hazards early and intervene cost-effectively. independently, each developing their own methods for A great deal of relevant information is available to detecting rare, small or transient populations. But the assist biosecurity agencies and decision-makers to take realisation that both are concerned with the same thing early preventive action to protect the environment and – detecting the Cheshire cat’s smile – offers potential economic activities (e.g. agricultural and social assets). for cross-fertilisation of ideas and methods. I will discuss a series of case studies from Australia We will discuss methods for statistically based examining the incursion of, trade in and surveillance surveillance and detection, and will give some of new invasive vertebrate species (birds, reptiles, examples of crazy and ambitious applications to amphibians), and the burgeoning global risk of trade in biosecurity and biodiversity management: designing pet species. economically optimal early detection systems for fruit flies and forestry pests; investigating the report of an invading pasture tunnel moth; determining appropriate trapping responses to invading populations and wildlife NOTES: disease eradication; proving a world-first eradication of the great white butterfly; and determining whether and when some of our ‘ghost’ species went extinct. Understanding the efficacy of biological sampling systems, from UAVs to eDNA, increases the value of survey data by quantifying the certainty of conclusions, particularly for those taxa that are not found. This enables better decision-making and can ultimately save money, protect agricultural production and sometimes even preserve species. Perhaps that’s what the Cheshire cat has been smiling about all along?
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15.45- 16.00 16.00-16.15 IS THE SUPPLY OF INVASIVE SPECIES R3: THE IMPORTANCE OF RELEVANT LIMITED? RESEARCH IN MANAGING BIOSECURITY Brockerhoff 1E , Liebhold A2, Kimberley M1 RISK: WHAT’S ON OUR RADAR, HOW DO 1Scion (New Zealand Forest Research Institute), 2USDA Forest THEY RANK AND WHAT’S OUR RETURN ON Service INVESTMENT? It has been suggested that the ongoing establishment Reed C of more and more invading species may eventually limit Ministry for Primary Industries the availability of remaining species available for future The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) is charged invasions. To assess whether source pool depletion with overall leadership of the biosecurity system is in fact occurring, we used a mechanistic model that for New Zealand and has a substantial operational considers both the finite nature of source species pools role. Interventions to reduce the likelihood of risk and increases in international trade to predict future organisms entering and establishing are based on the numbers of new invasions. The most abundant species best available science and risk assessment through are likely to invade first, given their high propagule analysing import pathways and the pest and disease pressure, while the many rare species are likely to impacts for our primary industries. These risks are invade only under high pathway volumes. considered, alongside those to our terrestrial, marine We applied this model to the case study of bark beetle and freshwater environments, and risks of new invasions in New Zealand and the USA (a country with vectors of human health concern. Science is critical a greater import volume), using information on actual to underpinning the risk frameworks we use and to historical invasions and the known source species supplying the organism information to populate our pools in Europe and Asia. We determined that actual assessments. source species pools in Europe and Asia (225 and 655 To be effective in managing biosecurity risk we need species of Scolytinae, respectively) are much larger to be able to detect significant changes in risk profiles than numbers that have historically established (a total early: they must be on our radar. MPI has developed of 4 species in New Zealand and 48 species in the (with input from industry and researchers) an active USA). Parameterisation of the model indicates a highly and coordinated system for detecting, communicating skewed species abundance distribution in the pathway, and responding to new and emerging risks. New and this is confirmed by species frequencies in border information reaches us all the time, and we have also interception records. This explains why only a small developed a science- and risk-based organism ranking fraction of species have historically invaded. system to help prioritise our resources. The Centre Forecasts from the model indicate that with increasing for Excellence in Biosecurity Risk Analysis is currently rates of imports, more species from these regions are supporting MPI to develop a framework that will likely to invade in the future, despite the depletion of overlay relative risks of biosecurity pests and diseases the most abundant species from source species pools. with the appropriate and most effective parts of the Previous statistical models tend to underestimate future biosecurity system in which to manage them. This will establishments in the presence of increasing import allow us to communicate and model the relative return rates due to their failure to account for key underlying on investment across system layers and interventions. mechanisms. Furthermore, depletion of source species This presentation focuses on the three Rs as examples pools is unlikely to occur for a long time, because of the way in which a regulator uses science, and what globalised trade provides access to new species pools success looks like to us in terms of our relationships in regions with previously limited trade. with research providers.
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16.15-16.30 PLENARY 16.30-16.45 RISK-BASED APPROACH (R-BA) TE TIRA WHAKAMĀTAKI: MĀORI FOR REGULATION OF HIGH-RISK BIOSECURITY NETWORK PHYTOPHTHORA SPECIES AT THE NEW Black A, Mark-Shadbolt M ZEALAND BORDER Bio-Protection Research Centre, Lincoln University & Herath A, Hurr K, Malanchak A Biological Heritage National Science Challenge, Landcare Research, New Zealand Ministry for Primary Industries With increasing numbers of biosecurity incursions Phytophthora species are among the most destructive threatening our taonga species, the need for Māori pathogens of agricultural crops and forests in the participation and solutions in the biosecurity system world, and novel species are emerging. The Ministry has never been greater. Yet often Māori wants and for Primary Industries (MMPI) have identified 20 exotic needs are ignored, lost or forgotten in what is a rapidly species as potentially high risk for New Zealand, changing, crowded and confusing biosecurity system. which could be introduced via nursery stock imports Acknowledging the numerous issues relating to how to (NSI). MPI have developed a risk-based approach (R- engage with Māori in this space, Te Turi Whakamātaki bA) in designing appropriate regulation at the border was created to solve the problem of how to engage for these phytophthoras via NSI, utilising economic with and ensure Māori are a vital part of New Zealand’s analysis and intelligence data. The level of economic biosecurity system. impact of these phytophthoras has been assessed on The establishment of a National Māori Biosecurity forestry, horticulture and floriculture. This will be used Network, Te Turi Whakamātaki, with a focus on the to design regulatory measures at each impact level. management of pre- and post-border biosecurity Detection of latent infection by phytophthoras threats, is timely given the launch of New Zealand’s in symptomless nursery stock and detection in National Science Challenges and in particular the bulk consignments presents a challenge for risk Biological Heritage National Science Challenge. management in post-entry quarantine (PEQ) in The network is designed to bring together Māori New Zealand. Effective diagnostics are required involved in protecting our biological resources from to screen nursery stock held in PEQ. MPI have biosecurity risks and threats, and it is intended that this researched diagnostic methods available for detecting network will be able to provide timely and accurate phytophthoras in different plant tissues (i.e. baiting, information to Māori communities (iwi, hapū, whānau), strip-based immune assays and molecular techniques). industry and agencies on biosecurity issues and Māori MPI are collaborating with Scion and Plant & Food priorities. Research on operational research to elucidate the Te Turi Whakamātaki held regional hui in 2016 and biosecurity risk of the in vitro import pathway. This a small wānanga in 2017 (with another planned for research aims to study transmission of phytophthoras June), has established an interim executive, and has via tissue culture as latent infection, and explores the released position statements on the recent myrtle rust use of next generation sequencing technology for incursion and the brown marmorated stink bug risk detection. and possible solution. The network is also involved in Predator Free 2050 discussions, Biosecurity 2025 working and steering groups, co-hosting a session on NOTES: ‘Myrtaceae plant health in the Pacific region’ with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and Island Arks Australia in Fiji later this year, and is participating in several research programmes. This kōrero will discuss network activities, research priorities and future plans, as well as engagement methods for working with Māori.
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PLENARY 16.45-17.00
BALANCING BIOSECURITY PRIORITIES: NOTES: ARE NATURAL ECOSYSTEMS THE POOR COUSINS? Beggs J Centre for Biodiversity and Biosecurity, University of Auckland Biological invasion is a key component of environmental change: reducing ecosystem services, constraining the maintenance of biological diversity, and leading to homogenisation of global biodiversity. New Zealand’s biosecurity system is constantly being challenged by the arrival of new species, and with increasing numbers of international visitors, changing patterns of trade, an increasingly diverse range of cultures and values, and the ongoing spread of invasive species, the challenges will just keep growing. New Zealand is internationally viewed as having an enviable biosecurity system. Nevertheless, it is unrealistic to expect the system to stop the arrival, establishment and spread of all new species, as well as deal with existing invasive species. Resources are finite and there will always be a need to trade off risks versus benefits. With so many demands placed on the system, there is a natural tension between different sectors seeking to protect their interests. In the face of such a wide range of existing and emerging threats, New Zealand’s biological heritage is largely still in decline. Our beautiful, vulnerable natural systems are under huge pressure and introduced species continue to be a key factor in biodiversity loss. Can our biosecurity system help reverse this, while still delivering for the productive sector.
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PLENARY 8.30 – 9.00 PLENARY 9.00-9.30 GROWING THE PIE: HOW THE HOW THE REVOLUTION IN PATHOGEN BIOHERITAGE CHALLENGE IS SHAPING GENOMICS IS INFORMING BIOSECURITY, NEW ZEALAND’S BIOHERITAGE RESEARCH FOOD SAFETY AND PUBLIC HEALTH IN Carswell F NEW ZEALAND Landcare Research Manaaki Whenua French N Massey University New Zealanders have a well-developed love for their birds. They have been the icons of our conservation Understanding the source of food- and water-borne programmes, and native birdsong in New Zealand infections is essential for their control and prevention, bush is a commonly seen as a proxy for the health and this requires identifying the relative contribution of that environment. Of the species translocated to of animal reservoirs, transmission pathways and risk private and community-led sanctuaries in the past 20 factors for infection. Recent advances have led to years, three-quarters have been birds. Indeed, the the development of new tools for ‘source attribution’, clarion call for a ‘Predator Free 2050’ reflects one of embracing the revolution in pathogen genome the most important means of achieving more birds in sequencing and new approaches to modelling New Zealand landscapes. However, birds are entirely microbial evolution. These have been deployed in New dependent on a whole ecosystem context, and if we Zealand to determine how and when some of our most stop at the removal of predators we will simply shift the important human pathogens emerged, evolved and bird survival factors hierarchy towards the next limiting were transmitted between livestock, wildlife reservoirs factor. I ask how New Zealand’s research community is and people. planning for ‘beyond predators’? This presentation will include examples of the The BioHeritage National Science Challenge aims to; application of source attribution and evolutionary • enhance and restore New Zealand’s land-based modelling tools to determine how often and when and freshwater ecosystems – on the conservation important pathogens, such as epidemic strains of estate or in private ownership – by deepening Salmonella and Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli, our understanding of which species we have, were likely to have entered New Zealand, and how and seeking science-based solutions to dealing they and other pathogens, such as campylobacter, with threats: pest animals and insects, weeds, evolved during ‘slow burn’ epidemics to cause large pathogens, and climate change. numbers of human cases. Such information is valuable Landcare Research has a similar ambition: for New for policy makers to implement effective control Zealanders to know, value, and actively preserve our strategies, and for understanding and preventing unique biota and ecosystems. A further ambition is that outbreaks, such as the major water-borne outbreak of our land is protected from invasive biological threats. campylobacteriosis in Havelock North in 2016. To achieve these ambitions we will require real-world tools and the participation of the majority of New Zealanders. The BioHeritage Challenge will need to NOTES: harness the capabilities of all its parties – their national and international collaborators – and engender the participation of New Zealand citizens. I will explore the progress towards this alignment, with thriving birdlife representing just one national aspiration.
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PLENARY 9.30-10.00 CONCURRENT SYMPOSIA: PREDATOR-FREE NZ 2050 BIOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS: ESSENTIAL BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH TOOLS FOR THE 10.30-10.45 21ST CENTURY SCIENCE FOR CONSERVATION Young A CSIRO Clout M University of Auckland The billion-plus biological specimens lodged in the world’s natural history collections dating back to This talk presents a personal perspective of the the 1600s represent an inventory of life on Earth. eradication of introduced mammalian predators and Collections have always been the core infrastructure the conservation of native birds. Bird conservation for taxonomic research. Since 1858 they have also efforts in New Zealand now focus on managing been a foundational data set for the development of invasive mammals, including their eradication from biological science’s most fundamental paradigm: the islands and their control at mainland sites. Eradication theory of evolution by natural selection. More recently, of mammalian predators from the mainland is now the twin disruptive technologies of digitalisation and also being actively considered. The talk is illustrated genomics (museumomics) have again fundamentally by specific examples of research, highlighting the changed the collections research landscape. More and importance of science for conservation. It also stresses more specimens, and their contextual data, are being the need for wider engagement of the public as we linked to digital images, sounds, scans and genomes progress towards the ultimate vision of a predator- free and then interconnected as global eCollections that New Zealand. can be interrogated in the context of spatial and environmental information. This revolution in the type, NOTES: scale and accessibility of data is expanding the role of collections as research tools and placing them at the very centre of biodiversity science. The current challenge facing collections scientists is to continue the core work in taxonomy and evolutionary biology that underpins their unique value as points of truth regarding species names and relationships, while exploiting the opportunities presented by new technologies and science domains. Collections must be digitally enhanced and genomically enabled in order to contribute to the basic and applied science demanded by a world that seeks simultaneously to conserve and exploit its biodiversity. Investment and invention, and a revolution in focus and impact, will also be required to maximise their contribution to the planet’s most important biological questions. While challenging to achieve, examples are already emerging (across fields ranging from meta-ecology and adaptation genomics, to biosecurity, biodiversity discovery, genetic resource management and eDNA- based environmental monitoring) that demonstrate the power of collections to deliver novel and significant biodiversity science in the 21st century.
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10.45-11.00 11.00-11.15 CAPE SANCTUARY AND ITS ROLE IN THE CAPE TO CITY: CHALLENGING THE CAPE TO CITY WIDESCALE PREDATOR BOUNDARIES CONTROL PROJECT Leckie C Lowe A Hawke’s Bay Regional Council Lowe Corporation Cape to City is a landscape-scale ecological restoration Cape Sanctuary is the brainchild of Andy Lowe MNZM, project. It is strongly focused on very-large-scale who, having purchased a substantial land holding at farmland predator control and habitat restoration as Ocean Beach, saw the potential to realise his dream of key transformational levers for biodiversity in New restoring endangered species and landscape in a way Zealand. Because farmland is around two-thirds of that would re-create a peninsula bustling with wildlife, New Zealand’s land area, it has a critical contribution to and where endangered species, human habitation, make to biodiversity recovery. It is also a key part of the food production and recreation could co-exist together. overall system integration across public conservation He was told that his idea was impossible. An ecologist land, urban areas and sanctuaries. The Cape to City had advised him that the ecology was ‘stuffed’ after vision is ‘Native species thrive where we live, work decades of farming. The landscape and wildlife at and play’. The project team believe it is only when Ocean Beach were in ‘intensive care’ and it would be people understand the value of biodiversity and how too expensive to revive. On the other hand, Andy had they can individually make a difference – whether evidence that the Cape had teemed with wildlife in the on farmland, urban areas or public conservation land past. Julian Robertson was establishing a private lodge – that we will turn the tide against biodiversity loss and world-class golf course on Cape Kidnappers, and in our nation. Business as usual will not achieve the the area contained the last vestiges of lowland forest transformational change needed for biodiversity in New and a significant dune system, as well as an array of Zealand. To achieve the vision, the Cape to City team archaeological history. Where others saw problems, are challenging the boundaries across landscape-scale Andy saw a rich canvas. predator control operations, research, education and In 2017, with the cooperation of three landowners habitat restoration. and strong, sustainable relationships nurtured over a You can learn more about this project at http:// decade and more with the Department of Conservation, capetocity.co.nz/. iwi, volunteers and supportive businesses, Cape Sanctuary is proof that anything is possible once it has been done. Innovative, commercial, long-term thinking combined with people power and the power of new technologies have proved a game-changer. NOTES: The success of the Sanctuary has helped give birth to the Cape to City project and the greater dream of a pest-free New Zealand. If Andy needs to build a replacement fence after 40 years, then the challenge he has laid down will have fallen on deaf ears. New Zealand’s extensive farming land provides a massive opportunity for extending its conservation estate. Urban areas as well can make a difference to biodiversity.
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11.15-11.30 11.30-11.45 THE TARANAKI MOUNGA PROJECT: CONSERVATION: SIDESHOW OR THE MAIN A LANDSCAPE-SCALE ECOLOGICAL ACT? TRANSFORMATION Atkins P Hania J Zealandia NEXT Foundation There is not an ecosystem on Earth that is not directly The Taranaki Mounga Project is a landscape-scale or indirectly affected by people. As human populations mountains-to-sea restoration project. It aims to secure grow, economies expand and our demands on the ecological resilience at scale, to provide or add to a earth’s resources relentlessly increase, we have common vision not only for Taranaki but also for Pest- become accustomed to thinking about the natural Free New Zealand by 2050 that can be emulated world as something other, somehow removed from our or supported, and to enable long-term sustainability daily existence. Biodiversity is in retreat, and that is the through engaging widely and being led by iwi, inevitable order of things. Research in areas such as communities and agencies. The project is now officially resource availability, environmental carrying capacity, one year into operation, and is now planning for the human health and wellbeing, social change, and long term after early successes in the partnership community engagement points to the foolhardiness of between the Taranaki iwi leaders, the NEXT Foundation this significant and increasing isolation of people from and the Department of Conservation, supported by nature. So, can we stem biodiversity loss and transform the founding sponsors. This presentation will focus on the way we live with nature? What opportunities do we the early learnings and opportunities for the project at have in New Zealand? Do we have any choice? these early stages.
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11.45-12.00 12.00-12.15 HIGH-TECH SOLUTIONS TO INVASIVE NEW SENSOR APPROACHES TO SNIFF OUT MAMMAL PEST CONTROL INVASIVE MAMMAL PESTS Russell J Kralicek A1, Travas-Sejdic J2, Hodgkiss J3, University of Auckland Keyzers R3, Hartley S3, Sharrock K1, Choi J1, Warburton B4, Linklater W3 New Zealand has led the world in the management 1Plant & Food Research, 2University of Auckland, 3Victoria of introduced mammals. Initial efforts focused on University of Wellington, 4Landcare Research the control and eradication of large herbivores, but emphasis has shifted more recently to small predators. Introduced invasive mammals such as rats, possums Public opinion has rallied around mammalian pest and stoats are one of the greatest threats to New control, particularly the recent Predator-Free New Zealand’s native flora and fauna as well as its primary Zealand 2050 announcement. The attitudes of New sector productivity. New technologies are being Zealanders to pest control shape a unique New developed to reduce pest populations by improving Zealand identity for our native biodiversity and its kill rates and reducing fertility. It is critical to be able protection, but there are important value differences to determine whether a mammal pest has been on control methods and target species. It is therefore eradicated from a target area and to quickly detect no surprise that mammalian pest control features reinvasion with confidence. But detecting animals at prominently in the Biological Heritage National Science extraordinarily low density is challenging. How can we Challenge. cost-effectively detect remaining or reinvading pests New Zealand has a genuine comparative advantage with efficient targeting of control resources? in research on and management of introduced Current strategies to measure the presence and mammals, with labour and knowledge export utility. On relative abundance of mammal pests include kill-traps, the one hand, our success in this field might indicate tracking tunnels, hair tubes and wax tags. None of that we should now focus efforts on other areas of these, however, provide real-time monitoring, and conservation, but it could also highlight how much pest identification relies on expensive human labour further there still is to go to achieve lasting gains to visit these devices. Alternatively, a remote visual in introduced mammal control and eradication. We assessment can be achieved using trail cameras, but continually make incremental advances in our pest there is risk of equipment failure and the cost is too control methodologies, advance knowledge of the prohibitive for widespread deployment. Detector dogs ecology of target species, and (more recently) deliver can be trained to sniff out pest mammals and are new tools to the market. However, much remains to useful for one-off assessments of a target area, but are be learnt about complex species interactions and not practical or affordable for 24/7 real-time remote recoveries (among both native and introduced species), monitoring. the role of the public and stakeholders in determining We are proposing a new approach to enable the cost- pest control actions, and the application of prioritisation effective, real-time, remote sensing of mammal pests. algorithms and economic analyses in balancing Our goal is to produce cheap and effective biosensors conservation decision-making. that can be left in the field for months to detect species- In this talk I summarise collaborative research specific volatile or water-soluble biomarker chemicals underway in the ‘High tech solutions to invasive produced by mammal pests. The presence of these mammal pest control’ project. Over the next 3 years compounds will trigger electric impulses, which can be this project will commence research intended to make monitored through wireless devices. We will provide an substantial advances in mammalian pest control by overview of our Biological Heritage National Science focusing on high-risk distant horizon research, thus Challenge-funded biosensor development programme. complementing existing incremental and close-to- market research, development and testing.
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12.15-12.30 13.30-13.45 THE CACOPHONY PROJECT: USING AMBITIOUS PROPOSALS HAVE A LONG DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES TO MAKE HISTORY: WHICH ONES WORKED, AND TRAPPING 80,000 TIMES MORE EFFICIENT WHY? Ryan G King C The Cacophony Project University of Waikato The modern information technology used by the History provides many examples of pest control Cacophony Project can theoretically make eradication proposals that were labelled crazy and ambitious in of predators in New Zealand 80,000 times more their time. On the grounds that it always helps to learn efficient, with a combination of sound and visual lures, from history, I offer some examples of ambitious pest artificial intelligence (AI) predator identification, and control programmes of the past, including some that solar power. didn’t work (biological control of rabbits, trapping to • The lure can last 20 times longer than food traps, prevent the spread of mink in UK, eradicating tahr being solar powered. from the South Island), some that could not work • It potentially only requires 1/100th the number of (keeping stoats off New Zealand inshore islands), traditional traps, because they can operate over 10 some that worked eventually (eradicating coypu from times the distance (100 times the area). the UK, cats from Marion Island, rabbits and cats from • One trap can target any predator (possum, rat, Macquarie Island), and some that worked immediately mustelid or feral cat), so only a quarter the number (eradicating rats from Breaksea and Campbell Islands). of traps are required. A brief comparison of the common features of these • The kill percentage could be closer to 100%, rather successes and failures can help define the conditions than less than 10% for current traps. that would best favour future success, assisted by • Moore’s law implies there is likely to be a both the warnings and the encouragement of past consistent exponential drop in cost and experience. improvement in performance over time. The Cacophony Project is totally open source, so any time there are improvements made they can be rolled out to all the networked traps. These collective NOTES: improvements mean that, theoretically, the traps could be 80,000 times more efficient: 20 (lure life) x 100 (trap intensity) x 4 (one trap, four pests) x 10 (kill ratio). This project has been going for 18 months, and has succeeded in: • creating a device to turn any old smartphone into an objective environmental monitoring tool • encouraging initial testing of digital lures that shows possums can be detected and lured from a distance. • using artificial intelligence (AI) to automatically identify different predators from video analysis • achieving a way to robustly measure the effectiveness of existing traps and monitoring tools (existing traps work as little as 1% of the time) • developing a super-sensitive dual camera tool (heat and infrared) to monitor predators better than any existing tool, which should be particularly useful for other scientific projects but will ultimately form the core of the automated trap.
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13.45-14.00 14.00-14.15 A BLUEPRINT FOR A DATA COMMONS A ROADMAP TO PREDATOR FREE NEW Mansell J ZEALAND Noos Ltd Bowman R Environment Southland The central challenge of enabling data integration and reuse at scale is trust. Data integration and reuse The 16 regional councils and unitary authorities in New can create significant value for all parties — data Zealand make a significant contribution to managing contributors, and data reusers — but only if they can introduced pest animals for both biodiversity and create and maintain a high trust relationship in regards economic purposes. This involves annual expenditure to the data reuse transactions they participate in. of around $20 million per annum, identified in a survey Existing models for enabling data integration and reuse of regional councils in 2014. In 1989 regional councils fail because they do not address this central challenge. were assigned statutory responsibilities to protect The dominant approach tends to build technically- biodiversity under the Resource Management Act, focused point solutions that are highly specific to and later were given powers to manage pests as a the particular context they are operating. Moreover, biodiversity threat under the Biosecurity Act 1993. Their data reuse interests tend to only address their own focus is on the 19 million hectares of privately owned needs – frequently overlooking the interests of the land, representing 70% of New Zealand’s land area. data contributor. At best there is lip service to consent Regional councils face enormous challenges in dealing and minimal control or at worst coercive harvesting of with small mammal pests (e.g. possums, stoats, rats, data. Because these attempts fail at trust, they become mice and feral cats), which have a severe impact on costly and hard to scale. native species and habitats. These predators are The alternative approach is to establish a Data seen as the main cause of the decreased abundance Commons. A commons-based approach builds trust (and in some cases local extinction) of iconic native and scalability into the solution. This is achieved by birds, reptiles, invertebrates and plants. In particular, adhering to a different set of principles and goals communities have mobilised to protect these values which embed an inclusive and open approach to data at key sites that are important to them. Despite the for everyone who is participating in the commons. In current expenditure by regional councils on biodiversity addition, by setting up a ‘protocol based approach’ the protection, it is not possible to achieve the goals sought Data Commons is scalable and lower cost. by communities at the current level of resourcing and The Data Commons primarily exists to maximize the with the pest control methods available. value of the participants’ data for the participants, and There is a critical need for more and better tools to it is co-designed and cogoverned by them. Moreover, manage small mammal pests. Although there have the design aims at creating a data reuse ecosystem been dramatic improvements with the development that rewards and encourages data reuse, rather of new toxins, traps and delivery systems over the last than the on-selling or trading of data. The benefits 20 years, this progress has not been able to provide of specific data reuse are valued (and in some cases affordable, long-term protection to threatened species sold for profit), but the data themselves are not and ecosystems at anything more than a local scale. traded or owned. Data are also treated as a common Biosecurity and biodiversity managers in regional pool resource, which is quite different from existing councils, represented by the BioManagers Group, are models that seek either control and trade data based actively promoting the need for scientific research on agencies having an exclusive and monopolising and technology development to provide the new pest interest in data reuse. management tools. To progress this, in 2014 they The building of generalizable commons protocols (top commissioned a Strategic Roadmap for Biosecurity and down work) and the business of encouraging people Biodiversity Research. This strategy is guiding regional to meet their data reuse needs via the Data Commons councils in their efforts to expand the pest control (bottom up work) should be on-going and iterative. As tool box, and it will progressively evolve over time to more data becomes available on the Data Commons, it help achieve the predator-free goals sought by the becomes more valuable to the community of scientists, communities they serve. ecologists, entrepreneurs and social investors and activists who will seek to use it and in turn add their data to a high trust data ecosystem. I will explore these issues during the presentation.
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CONCURRENT SYMPOSIA: GENOMICS AND 10.45-11.00 DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES AMBITIOUS, BUT NOT CRAZY: 10.30-10.45 IDENTIFICATION AND RECOMMENDATION OF STANDARDISED MOLECULAR (GENE) DRIVING PESTS TO EXTINCTION PROCEDURES FOR THE IDENTIFICATION Dearden P OF ALL LIFE FROM ENVIRONMENTAL DNA University of Otago Lear G1, Dickie I2, Banks J3, Boyer S4, Buckley The development of gene-editing technology has led to H5, Buckley T1,6, Cruickshank R7, Dopheide the implementation of gene drive ideas, first suggested A6, Handley K1, Hermans S1, Kamke J1, Lee in the early 2000s. Gene drives are a transgenic C8, MacDiarmid R9, Morales S10, Orlovich D10, strategy to ‘drive’ a transgene through a population Smissen R11, Wood J11, Holdaway R11 of organisms, in effect cheating genetics. By linking 1The University of Auckland, 2Bio-Protection Research Centre, the gene drive mechanism to something that upsets Lincoln University, 3The Cawthron Institute, 4Unitech Institute 5 6 the biology of the organism, it is possible to cause of Technology, Auckland University of Technology, Landcare Research, 7Lincoln University, 8The University of Waikato, 9Plant local extinction of a population. Gene drives have & Food Research, 10University of Otago, 11Landcare Research been described in the popular press as being a great solution for New Zealand’s predator-free aspirations, Forensic science long ago revealed the potential to explore but are they? In this talk I will discuss the potential the diversity of life within any sample, not just from the of and problems with gene drives, and whether they DNA present within live cells, but from the skin, hair and might be deployed to control New Zealand pests. bodily fluids of organisms inhabiting or transiting through an environment. It’s no longer necessary to sight an organism or an individual to confirm their presence in the vicinity of NOTES: a sampling location. Recent advances in DNA sequencing technologies now look set to revolutionise biodiversity monitoring from environmental DNA (eDNA), as it has become possible to analyse the DNA molecules extracted from many hundreds of samples, simultaneously. This high-throughput method is applicable to all organisms (i.e. archaea, bacteria, protists, fungi, animals and plants) simply by targeting different genetic markers. This means that eDNA analysis protocols have potential as a novel, universal tool for future biodiversity and biosecurity assessments. Despite the widespread appeal of this method, current approaches for the analysis of biodiversity from eDNA vary widely across laboratories, and particularly among groups focusing on different taxa and sample media. Comparisons of data collected by different researchers are therefore subject to multiple biases, many of which remain poorly quantified. Here we report on a coordinated effort to combine the skills of New Zealand’s scientific community to begin harmonising methods for the extraction, amplification, sequencing and storage of eDNA. We present standard protocols for the identification of both macro-organisms and microbial taxa from eDNA and provide specific protocols for the assessment of fungi, micro-eukaryotes, plants, animals, fish and prokaryotes. By providing in-depth guidelines for sample processing, we aim to improve future opportunities for data comparison and collaboration in eDNA research and biodiversity monitoring and help to make these methods more accessible to the next generation of scientists and land managers.
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11.00-11.15 11.15-11.30 CARING FOR ENVIRONMENTAL DNA DATA DRIVERS OF CHANGE IN MICROBIAL (THROUGH SHARING) DIVERSITY AND FUNCTION IN NEW Ganley A ZEALAND SOILS University of Auckland Wakelin S Scion The ability to extract and sequence DNA directly from environmental samples is transforming our The vast proportion of New Zealand’s biodiversity understanding and measurement of biological diversity. resides in the incredibly species-rich microbial It provides a window into the world of microbial communities in soils. In addition to harbouring a diversity that would otherwise be largely hidden multitude of native and endemic species, these from view, and is increasingly being used to monitor communities mediate key soil functions, thus having macroscopic biodiversity. However, to achieve a a direct impact on above-ground ecosystems, nationally integrated picture of biodiversity in Aotearoa and hydraulically connected ecosystems such as that incorporates environmental DNA data, sharing of groundwater. Given that approximately 60% of New these data is critical. To meet this challenge of sharing, Zealand’s land area is managed for agriculture, the Biological Heritage National Science Challenge plantation forestry or horticultural use, assessing the is developing an online hub for environmental DNA impacts of intensification and land-use change on data. A key aspect of this hub is that data sharing will the composition and function of soil ecosystems is of be facilitated for all levels of expertise, through search national significance. and visualization features. In this way, we want the Two studies to determine the relative impacts of hub to not only unite the data, but also bring together intensification and land-use type on soil microbial a diverse set of users, including citizen scientists. We ecosystems were undertaken. Using an ecological welcome involvement from all parties with an interest in genomics approach, soil microbial diversity and this project. function were compared in native tussock grasslands, improved grasslands used for extensive grazing, and intensively managed pastures. Land-use effects were assessed by comparing communities and functions NOTES: under improved pastures, plantation forestry and native forest. The studies show unequivocally that factors affecting edaphic properties, particularly pH and nutrient status, are first-order drivers for the microbial (bacteria) community. Intensification of land use, from its primary physicochemical state, is more important than land-use type or environmental gradients in altering soil microbial diversity and function. Have we experienced a hidden mass extinction with the ‘improvement’ of New Zealand’s soils?
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11.30-11.45 11.45-12.00 ENVIRONMENTAL DNA AND WILDLIFE PATHOGEN GENOMICS AND BIOSECURITY SURVEILLANCE: FROM PROMISE TO Weir B DELIVERY Landcare Research Gleeson D1,2, Sarre S1, Furlan E1,2 Novel plant and animal pathogens present a great 1Institute for Applied Ecology, University of Canberra, 2Centre for Invasive Species Solutions biosecurity risk to both primary production and the natural estate of New Zealand. Accurate identification Advances in DNA-related technology hold significant of bacterial and fungal pathogens can be very potential for application to wildlife surveillance, but also difficult without DNA sequences, so single genes or come with risks and challenges. An important advance a few genes are routinely sequenced from unknown has been the adoption of ancient DNA approaches organisms. However, the rapidly increasing ease and for the detection of environmental DNA (eDNA). All decreasing cost of sequencing entire genomes has organisms shed DNA, and much of it finds its way into allowed a step change in characterising and managing the environment and can be detected by sampling pathogens. water, soil, air or faecal material. This approach This presentation will cover research spanning from provides a non-invasive approach to wildlife analysis the early days of genomics of plant pathogens in New and holds considerable promise for the detection of Zealand to the current state-of-the art technology, and cryptic border arrivals, of species post-arrival but in the importance of maintaining reference collections. the early phase of the invasion curve, or of the impacts Can we move towards the crazy and ambitious goal of of post-eradication treatments. The main risks lie routinely sequencing full genomes of all pathogens that in inadequate delineation of the limits of detection, are already here and that cross the border? leading to the potential for incorrect diagnoses of species presences or absences, and in a lack of adequate databases and systems to fully interpret NOTES: the information that emerges from multispecies DNA profiles. In order to overcome some of the implicit challenges, we have developed a framework to estimate the sensitivity of both the field and laboratory components eDNA survey methods, and to show how these can be combined to estimate the overall sensitivity. We have applied this framework to species-specific eDNA surveys to estimate the sensitivity, or probability of detection, for three invasive aquatic species present in Australia: Perca fluviatilis, Cyprinus carpio, and Misgurnus anguillicaudatus. We have also developed a method for detecting spawning in a threatened species, Macquaria australasica, and for using eDNA to detect the presence of terrestrial vertebrate species at water sources. Examples from each of these applications will be presented, and we will show how eDNA can potentially transform species monitoring, with the overall caveat of a robust and scientifically defensible interpretation of results.
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12.00-12.15 12.15-12.30 COMPARE AND CONTRAST: GENETIC ANALYSIS OF GENETIC COMPOSITION OF DIVERSITY AND POPULATION STRUCTURE ARGENTINE STEM WEEVIL POPULATIONS UTILISING GENOTYPING-BY-SEQUENCING USING GENOTYPING-BY-SEQUENCING McEwan J, Dodds K, Brauning R, Van Stijn T, Goldson S1, Jauregui R2, Henry H3, Clarke S3, Anderson R, Goldson S, Jacobs J, Clarke S Ganesh S2, Van Stijn T3, Tomasetto F1, Jacobs J1 AgResearch 1AgResearch Ltd, Lincoln Science Centre, 2AgResearch Ltd, Grasslands Research Centre 3 AgResearch Ltd, Invermay Genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) methodology Agricultural Centre produces SNP genotypes that are supported by varying depths of sequence reads, dependent on the Argentine stem weevil (ASW, Listronotus bonariensis) number of samples and the proportion of the genome is a major exotic pest in New Zealand pastures, assayed within a lane of sequencing. Although having causing significant economic damage. About 25 more samples per lane improves cost effectiveness, a years ago a parasitoid wasp (Microctonus hyperodae) balance is needed to achieve the required sequence- was introduced into New Zealand. The wasp acts as read depth to support the SNP genotypes for use in a biocontrol agent for the ASW, and, like the ASW, downstream applications such as estimation of genetic its native range is in South America. After an initial diversity and differentiation, parentage assignment, period of highly successful control, the efficacy of the inbreeding estimation, genomic selection, and genome- biocontrol wasp is declining and a resurgence in ASW wide association studies. is now being observed. We have developed the technique in more than In order to understand why this is happening, we 30 different species and will describe trade-offs in collected populations of ASW from across New Zealand restriction enzyme used and number of samples per to study their genetic composition. Collections have lane in order to target a given number of variants. We been made in regions with high and low parasitoid also present examples using GBS as a tool for genomic wasp pressure. DNA was isolated from individual diversity studies from a range of mammal, bird, plant, insects and genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) of each fish and insect species. We highlight the use of the individual was performed. GBS is a method used to statistical analysis method of KGD (kinship using GBS develop rapid, cost-effective and high-density genetic with depth adjustment) for detecting relatedness, marker data. This allows for detailed genetic analysis population structure and extension to estimations of of the ASW populations. Preliminary results point effective population size. to regional differences in the genetic composition of the weevils. While the ASW reproduces sexually, the parasitoid wasp has clonal reproduction. Future NOTES: research will determine whether this effectively unequal evolutionary arms race has led to a shift in genetic composition of the ASW population and is causing the decline in parasitism of the ASW. The application of GBS has enriched ongoing ecological studies into the decline in parasitoid efficacy and is already dispelling what have been long-held views about the ecology and genetics of ASW.
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13.30- 14.00 14.00-14.15 GENETIC TOOLS FOR PEST ERADICATION WHY SAVING SPECIES AND AND CONTROL: NOT CRAZY, JUST RESURRECTING SPECIES IS THE SAME, AMBITIOUS AND WHY IT MATTERS Gemmell N Dickison M University of Otago Whanganui Regional Museum New Zealand has recently stunned the world by The possibility of resurrecting moa from scraps of DNA announcing a goal to eradicate mammalian predators has ignited a heated discussion. Objections to moa by 2050. The key targets are possums, rats and stoats resurrection are not usually based on the formidable – – species that cause enormous damage to our flora even insurmountable – technical obstacles to creating and fauna and in some cases are an economic burden a weird genetically modified creature that nobody to our productive sectors. As all of these species were would even consider a moa. Instead, the objections introduced to New Zealand from elsewhere there is are legal, ethical, economic and even theological. But, little sympathy nationally for any of them, and their as I’ll demonstrate, all these objections are spurious: control and eradication have been a key component if we accept them, then we are forced to agree that of conservation and animal health management in this it is morally wrong and indefensible to save critically country for decades. endangered species like the black robin or the kākāpō. Thanks to the work of many, over decades of This is clearly absurd. Our distaste for the idea of incremental gain, we can control and even eradicate resurrecting extinct species is based not on arguments, many of these species at increasingly large scales. but on a ‘yuck’ factor. This will cause problems for The success of these programmes has seen a variety New Zealand conservation: long before researchers of ‘pest-free’ sanctuaries formed, where a number of succeed in resurrecting an extinct species, we will be native species – including kiwi, kōkako and kākā – now employing their findings to save endangered ones. If have a realistic chance for population persistence and the public think genetic engineering is ‘playing God’, recovery. conservation biologists in the future may have to watch Pest control with current technologies over significant species go extinct that could have been saved. spatial scales is definitely possible, but it is time- consuming and expensive. So if we want to reach a goal of a pest-free New Zealand by 2050, we NOTES: either have to make this a priority and open up the national chequebook, or we need to come up with much smarter (read cheaper) ways to control our pest problem. In this talk I will explore some of the technical solutions currently being considered, the opportunity and challenges associated with each, and a potential road map to the challenge goal.
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14.15-14.30 14.30-14.45 MODELLING THE APPLICATION OF REALISING THE PROMISE OF NEW GENETIC-BASED TOOLS TO PEST CONSERVATION GENOMICS: AN MANAGEMENT ACCELERATED APPROACH Jalilzadeh A1, Gemmell N2, Tompkins D1 Steeves T 1Landcare Research, 2University of Otago University of Canterbury Modern population genetics has been revamped and For recovery programmes of threatened species revitalised by recent computational revolutions. This across the globe, one of the most common questions computational revolution has allowed the integration asked by conservation scientists and practitioners is: of conceptual advances as well as new data. In this How can we manage captive and wild populations talk I will introduce mathematical models that were to ensure threatened species have sufficient genetic used to investigate the effect of mtDNA mutations diversity to adapt to environmental change? Recent on population viability, or the so-called Trojan female advances in high-throughput sequencing (HTS) technique (TFT). I will also discuss how such models technologies promise to fundamentally change the can be extended to accommodate other genome way conservation geneticists characterise genetic editing techniques such as CRISPR. The ultimate goal diversity, from measuring genome-wide diversity is to find an optimal recipe of gene drive techniques for based on tens of thousands of single nucleotide pest eradication. polymorphisms, to detecting regions of the genome underlying phenotypic variation linked to fitness (i.e. adaptive variation). However, despite the fact that they have been available for well over a decade, a limited NOTES: number of publications have applied HTS technologies to conservation. In this talk I will discuss how forging cross-sector relationships with primary industry scientists is expediting my research group’s transition from genetic to genomic technologies and enabling mutually beneficial scientific advances in both sectors. I will also reflect on the role of kindness in building and maintaining these relationships, and ask a crazy and ambitious question: Does embedding kindness in science lead to better outcomes?
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14.45-15.00 CONCURRENT SYMPOSIA: PROTECTING NZ’S PRIMARY INDUSTRIES EXPLOITING THE CHEMICAL ECOLOGY OF INVASIVE SPECIES FOR BIOSECURITY 15.30-15.45 Suckling D1, El-Sayed A2, Park K2, Mas F2, PASTURES: ARE THEY NEW ZEALAND’S Stringer L1 MOST NEGLECTED ECOSYSTEM? 1School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, 2Plant & Food Research, Barratt B2, Goldson S1 1Agresearch/BPRC, 2AgResearch Ltd Odours emanate from life all around us, and eavesdropping on the conversations of nature offers Pastures are vitally important to New Zealand, but how new information on invasive species and how they much do we know about their ecology? This seems fit into ecosystems, including host use. For example, like a strange question, but so much attention has invasive wasps can smell honeydew compounds been focused on lifting production that questions can associated with a sugar reward, but are attracted to reasonably asked about what we are really dealing different odours in beech forests from other areas. with. There are things that we do know. For example, Sometimes odours can be used for surveillance and New Zealand pastures are definitely highly susceptible even novel socially acceptable suppressions systems to exotic invasive insects, many of which are not in natural ecosystems, urban areas or productive sector problems in their centres of origin. Similarly, they can ecosystems. be susceptible to weed invasion and reversion to lower Examples of semiochemistry we have elucidated productivity grasses. The biocontrol efforts against recently range from novel insect sex pheromones three invasive insect species have been spectacularly and kairomone attractants, which can be used to successful to the extent that the chances of this monitor unwanted pest organisms, to the early happening can be calculated to be one in a thousand. development of completely novel odourant-based Now there are indications that one of these classical tactics for suppression. Specialised demonstration biocontrol systems has collapsed through probable cases exploring this area include ‘Ménage-à-trois for resistance. Failure such as this is unknown in the insects’ and ‘mobile mating disruption’, where we international literature. How much of all of this has to released sterile Mediterranean fruit flies to spread do with some kind of collision between the old evolved sex pheromones of a pest species in urban Perth in indigenous New Zealand and the callow nature of New order to prevent mating. Progress has been faster Zealand pasturelands? The latter are in fact partial with more conventional mating disruption, mass transplants of Palaearctic grassland systems. Is this all trapping and ‘lure and kill’ systems, and there are driven by depauperate or skewed biodiversity? The now pheromone products established for post-border need for future work is unquestionable. insect pest management in orchards. Progress with trail pheromone disruption of Argentine ants and fire ants provides some lessons on how social organisms respond to the overloading of an important sensory NOTES: modality like smell. We will review recent case studies of our attempts to identify, understand and exploit the chemical ecology of invasive species to mitigate their impacts.
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15.45- 16.00 16.00-16.15 THE NEW ZEALAND ERADICATION OF HOW EFFECTIVE HAVE BIOSECURITY BOVINE TB: A BOLD NEW TARGET MEASURES BEEN IN PREVENTING THE Hutchings S, Crews K INTRODUCTION OF PLANT PATHOGENS OSPRI TO NEW ZEALAND? Hulme P, Johnson P, Cooper J, Bufford J, Bovine tuberculosis (TB) is a significant disease for New Zealand primary industries. Infection in cattle and deer Duncan P, Sikes B Bio-Protection Research Centre herds results in culling and quarantine conditions being imposed while under infected herd case management. The influx of non-native pathogens onto introduced The disease is maintained within the wildlife population crops and ornamental plants s not only imposes primarily by possums (Trichosurus vulpecula) and is significant economic costs, but also challenges transmitted to cattle and deer by aerosol contact. New national food security. Despite their importance, no Zealand has spent over 1 billion dollars since the mid- comprehensive effort has yet evaluated how the 1990s managing TB in farmed cattle and deer, and rates of non-native pathogen arrivals to a region have within wildlife populations. This work has had funding changed over time. Accurate estimates are critical: from a partnership between government, primary temporal changes in arrival rates will reflect the relative industry and landowners. importance of trade activity and the effectiveness of Up until 2016 it was believed that the disease could biosecurity responses. We used a large database of only be managed or at best partially eradicated New Zealand plant-pathogen records over the last from specific regions of New Zealand because of 150 years to estimate the rate of non-native pathogen the funding and timing parameters described within arrival on introduced plants and compare differences the TB Plan. The significant success of the 2011 TB in pathogen arrival among different crops to examine Plan in achieving upwards of 1.6 million hectares of potential trade and biosecurity effects. The rate of TB freedom within the possum population from the arrival of new pathogens rose steadily until about 1980, projected 2.5 million hectare target within the first but has since levelled off and even declined in the last 4 years of a 10-year plan was based on scientific 20 years. Recent declines in pathogen arrival rates for operational research and a nationally coordinated crops and fruit trees despite exponential increases in implementation programme. external trade may reflect the introduction of effective A national TB review undertaken by funders biosecurity measures. However, increasing pathogen and interested stakeholders has resulted in the arrival rates in forestry indicates an area for renewed development of a bold new plan that aims to have biosecurity focus. In addition, we estimate that almost TB freedom from livestock by 2026, freedom from 100 non-native pathogens are present but remain possums by 2040, and biological eradication from New undocumented in New Zealand. Renewed efforts Zealand by 2055. The success of this plan requires to survey pathogens can directly inform biosecurity the development of a targeted risk-based approach measures, including which hosts are most at risk to livestock surveillance and wildlife control by the and whether those risks come from abroad or from management agency TBfree New Zealand, which is established pathogens expanding their host range. owned by OSPRI New Zealand Limited. The paper will outline some of the new risk-based approaches to livestock disease management and NOTES: surveillance, and wildlife control and surveillance utilising data modelling to assess probabilities of freedom from the disease as a component of the eradication process.
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16.15-16.30 16.30-16.45 PILOTING AREA-WIDE STERILE INSECT ENHANCING SURVEILLANCE RELEASES OF CODLING MOTH IN NEW CAPABILITIES: BUILDING A PARTNERSHIP ZEALAND Mark-Shadbolt M1, Grant A2, Sullivan J1, Walker J1, Rogers D1, Lo P1, Horner R2, Moses- Brockerhoff E2, Pawson S2 Gonzalez N3, Esch E4, Suckling M2,5 1Lincoln University, 2Scion (NZ Forest Research Institute Ltd 1The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Limited, 2The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research New Zealand is recognised internationally for its Limited, 3M3 Consulting Group, 4Okanagan-Kootenay Sterile approach to biosecurity: we are world leaders. Insect Release Program, 5School of Biological Sciences, Effective surveillance that can detect incursions University of Auckland of non-native organisms is crucial to prevent the The sterile insect technique was first developed against establishment of new pests that may threaten our codling moth in Canada, and today our team are natural and productive ecosystems. Numerous importing Okanagan-Kootenay sterile insect release government-led surveillance programmes provide factory-reared insects for weekly releases in Central structured surveys that target particular species or sites Hawke’s Bay orchards to assess the potential for wider that are considered high risk. However, biosecurity is use in the apple industry. We are testing the concept everyone’s responsibility, and as part of the National that tactical combination of highly effective mating Science Challenge we are working with central and disruption technology and sterile insects can drive the regional government, iwi/Māori, and primary industry population to local extinction when we consistently sectors (NZ Forest Owners Association, Kiwifruit, overflood the very low residual wild population of Pipfruitnz, HortNZ, NZ Avocados, Dairy NZ, Beef moths. The local population on two 100-hectare + Lamb New Zealand, and NZ Wine) to develop a properties has been driven as low as two to four moths technology and communication platform that facilitates per 100 hectares per year, and the area treated has greater participation in general surveillance activities. doubled due to grower support. A low-cost, remotely This effort is aligned with the desire of the Ministry controlled fixed-wing aircraft flying pre-set GPS for Primary Industries (MPI) for a biosecurity team of coordinates can cover 100 hectares in a few minutes, 4.7 million to augment existing surveillance efforts. A delivering 20,000 sterile insects. combination of mobile technology tools will be used Our project, supported by the International Atomic to facilitate the submission and subsequent triage of Energy Agency, is at the forefront of efforts to use the observations. The technology solutions developed will sterile insect technique in new ways. By commencing be flexible and allow biosecurity intelligence from MPI population assessments in peri-urban areas, and and other agencies to be communicated to specific later developing spatially explicit population models primary industry sectors and/or localities. The project is of codling moth population suppression based on stakeholder-driven, and we will report on the inaugural pheromone trap catch, in future we hope to estimate workshop where participants defined the scope, the feasibility of wider eradication for the benefit of structure and technology platform that we will take growers and exporters, and the community interested forward over the next 2 years of the project. in developing and maintaining alternatives to pesticide use.
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CONCURRENT SYMPOSIA: 15.45- 16.00 SOCIAL LICENCE TO OPERATE 15.30-15.45 IF WE BUILD IT, WILL THEY USE IT?: EXPLORING NEW ZEALANDERS’ SOCIAL THE VALUE OF TRUST AND SOCIAL LICENCE TOWARDS NOVEL PEST CONTROL LICENCE IN NEW ZEALAND’S PRIMARY METHODOLOGIES SECTORS Macdonald E1, Edwards E1, Greenaway A2, 1,2 1 Edwards P , Payn T Tompkins D2, Medvecky F3, Russell J4, Milfont 1 2 Scion, Victoria University of Wellington T5, Abrahamse W5, Frame B2 1 2 Across agriculture, forestry and fishing, resource Department of Conservation , Landcare Research , 3University of Otago, 4University of Auckland, 5Victoria development is becoming increasingly intensified, University of Wellington facing domestic and international pressures. Social licence to operate has become an increasingly As we develop novel pest control methods in the important issue, and trust is hypothesised to be laboratory, understanding the public acceptance (or foundational. However, trust in industry, government, lack of it) will be vital for the technology to be realised science and the media is decreasing , and regulation in New Zealand. Our 2-year research project will no longer meets societal expectations. We examine the explore New Zealanders’ current attitudes to and mechanisms of building trust in a social licence context, values relating to novel-pest control methods (using including the quality and degree of engagement with pest wasps and rats as model species), with the goal of communities, procedural fairness and knowledge pro-active engagement. sharing. These, along with truth in today’s ‘post-truth’ Our first objective is to develop a nationwide society, will be critically important in the building segmentation model using quantitative and qualitative of trust. Trust between in- and outgroups has been methods based on acceptance (or lack of it) of studied extensively. With social licence there are many novel pest control methods. While different attitudes complex heterogeneous relationships where trust is towards pest management in the past have focused required. We examine ‘post-truth’ trust-building, which on demographic differences, our model will be based will inform a new theoretical framework, applying our on psychographics, values, attitudes, and the lifestyles findings across the value chain for primary industries. of New Zealanders. Thus, engagement with each The new theoretical framework has similarities segment can be values based. Next, we will explore to corporate social responsibility and the Social with key stakeholder group how perspectives influence Acceptability index. However, given that these the acceptance of novel technologies and new pest concepts and social licence are very different, our control approaches. Results from this phase will give an new framework includes the additional elements indication of who the key influencers are in stakeholder of environmental compliance, stakeholder theory, group, an early indication of different views, and externality theory and the problem of social cost. The greater insight related to trust, collective opinions and framework will determine the empirical models used in influential networks. our case study analysis. Finally, we will use psychological frameworks to We will select successful and unsuccessful examples investigate the underlying beliefs of social acceptance of social licence and examine their characteristics and how to engage with the different segments across the value chain to investigate the importance based on these beliefs. We will develop pilot ‘nudge of trust at various scales. As these chains interact campaigns’ targeted at the key segments. We will with multiple unconnected communities, it is useful to test the framing of the messages (e.g. loss versus know the impacts of social licence on each link and gain, fear versus hope) and their resulting impact on its connections. We will then be able to determine if social acceptance. The results of our research will trust is the key factor in social licence, or whether there be fundamental to all agencies and non-government are other core components. We anticipate being able organisations vested in pest control and Predator to develop a value for trust outside of a social capital Free New Zealand 2050. Our segmentation model will construct. be available to all interested parties and will provide insights into how to engage with each segment, and ultimately the nation. We hope our results lay the foundation for early and effective conversations about novel pest control methods with New Zealanders.
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16.00-16.15 16.15-16.30 BRINGING THE ‘TRICKSTER WASP’ INTO IS NATURE A LUXURY? THE DISCOURSE ON BIOTECHNOLOGICAL Shanahan D CONTROLS OF ‘PEST WASPS’ Zealandia Mercier O Fostering a connection between city residents and Victoria University of Wellington nature is considered fundamental to maintaining and The National Science Challenge stream ‘Our Biological building support for nature conservation into the future. Heritage’ includes a project that explores the social Yet our research highlights fundamental inequalities and cultural perceptions of biotechnological controls of in access to, and the quality of, nature across the German and common wasp populations. This connects socioeconomic spectrum. For example, we now know to the New Zealand Government’s announcement of its that socioeconomic disadvantage is associated with goal for a science breakthrough capable of removing negative perceptions of wildlife, lower availability a small predator from Aotearoa by 2025. But is the of nature-rich green spaces and lower use of green public prepared to accept the removal of species space. Indeed, nature appears to be a luxury that using ‘breakthrough’ technological controls? Here I many do not have access to. These inequalities are present the key considerations that have informed particularly concerning given the compelling evidence our framing and methodology for exploring this issue, that people gain a range of physical, mental and social particularly with Māori. These include thinking about health benefits from urban nature, highlighting an how tikanga, kaitiakitanga and the social licence to important social justice issue. How can these biases be operate can set a research agenda. I discuss how a overcome? Zealandia’s ambitious ideas focus on both particular native species of wasp acts as a touchstone enhancing access to nature in urban environments, against which to consider the key issues in the ‘pest’ combined with education and engagement approaches control and conservation discourse. I then consider that foster a love of nature in the community. The key how the research into wasps might add to the broader research challenge is identifying the most effective discussion around pest mammals and other introduced strategies to reconnect around 40% of people who are species. considered ‘non-users’ of green spaces with nature.
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16.30-16.45 PLENARY 16.45-17.30 WHAKARONGO KI TE HAPORI: LISTEN TO WHAT IS KAITAKITANGA? THE COMMUNITY FIRST, TALK SECOND Prime K Ritchie J Environment Commissioner Treescape Environmental We hope to take the audience through, and Predator Free New Zealand by 2050 is all about demonstrate, how we as a whānau have acquired people first, predators second: getting the wider our lands, and managed our natural and physical community on board, growing capacity, and working resources in a sustainable manner, while recognising out what motivates and empowers people is what and maintaining our cultural connection to our ancestral will sustain predator free in the long term. All the heritage. new technology and innovation is pointless without connecting people to why we all need to work together to turn this idea into reality. Getting behind this – whether it be a class education NOTES: project, reducing waste in your backyard or slogging it out on a trap line – needs to be where everyone is at. We need to make a personal connection with as many people as possible about the value of land without predators, whether it is simply fruit trees or roses in a garden that fruit or flower in the absence of possums, or kākā returning to Waiheke Island and breeding successfully with no stoat predation. Building knowledge and capacity in the community, harnessing individuals and groups, encouraging innovation and new ideas, celebrating and telling the stories of the many community initiatives underway, understanding what it takes to do this work on the ground and the toolbox of techniques to use are all essential to encouraging and inspiring people that predator free, although a long game, is one that all can play a part in, where large and small contributions are equally valued. Predator free is a means to an end, providing our unique and special wildlife and stunning natural environments with a real future, whether it be urban, rural, island, mainland, wetland or forest. My kōrero is about listening to the community and empowering them with the tools, knowledge and resources to do this work. I will draw on the experiences from a number of projects in the Hauraki Gulf and on the mainland. NOTES:
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PLENARY 8.30 – 9.00 PLENARY 9.30-10.00 BLACK SWAN, BROWN RIVER: HOW A PREDATOR FREE 2050 FREE-FLOWING RIVER TRANSFORMED Bennett A and English M CALIFORNIA’S APPROACH TO RIVER Predator Free 2050 Board, Department of Conservation MANAGEMENT An introduction to the Predator Free 2050 Board’s Viers J approach to implementing the overall programme and University of California the progress with the establishment of Predator Free Transformative events shaping human histories, 2050 Limited. perceptions and modalities can be considered to be of the black swan variety. Black swans, in this context, are unanticipated events with significant impact, yet in hindsight appear perfectly predictable. Flood events NOTES: and ensuing social–ecological transformations are an archetypal black swan. In this talk I illustrate how a black swan event transformed not only a riverine floodplain, but also initiated a paradigm shift in scientific thinking and approach to riverine floodplain management and restoration. The Cosumnes River is the last free-flowing large river of California’s Sierra Nevada, and its floodplains are an ancestral Miwok riverscape, once flourishing with Chinook salmon and other native fishes. Today it is the centre of an expansive nature preserve, conserving the last remnant tracts of valley oak riparian forest and the site of ambitious river restoration actions. This focused effort is the direct result of a black swan event. In 1986 a relatively routine levee failure along the banks of the Cosumnes River led to the establishment of an ‘accidental’ forest. The forest was not the surprise; rather it was the shift in thinking. In retrospect, of course, it was perfectly predictable. Following the levee failure, floodplain restoration approaches now focus on initiating hydro-ecological processes rather than mimicking biological composition and pattern. Subsequently, the social–ecological transformation has led to a scientific focus on the ecological effects of hydrological process, including intentional levee breaching and the promotion of flooded floodplains. I explore the role of black swans at the interface of ecosystem disturbance and human reaction within this emergent paradigm, with a new focus on the use of setback levees and levee breaching to promote process-based restoration of California’s floodplains for multiple social–ecological benefits.
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CONCURRENT SYMPOSIA: ECOSYSTEM 10.30-10.45 RESTORATION OUR LAKES’ HEALTH: PAST, PRESENT, 10.15-10.30 FUTURE Susie Wood1, Dave Kelly1, Piet Verburg2, John FRESHWATER RESTORATION: 2 2 2 CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES Quinn , Clive Howard-Williams , Sandy Elliot , Kevin Collier3, Mortiz Lehmann3, Chris McBride3, Quinn J Maui Hudson3, Marc Schallenberg4, NIWA Marcus Vandergoes5, Andrew Rees6, David Freshwaters underpin New Zealand’s cultural identity, Hamilton7 economy and biodiversity, and have deep cultural 1Cawthron Institute, Nelson, 2NIWA, Hamilton and Christchurch, value to Māori, but many have been degraded and no 3University of Waikato, Hamilton, 4Otago University, Dunedin, 5 6 longer meet societal needs. This degradation is due GNS Science, Lower Hutt, Victoria University, Wellington, 7Australian Rivers Institute, Brisbane, Australia to a range of pressures, including urban, industrial and rural land use, invasive species, and emerging climate New Zealand’s lakes are nationally significant change. Recent government policy has increased the freshwater bodies that provide critical ecosystem impetus for rehabilitating freshwaters by setting several services and hold high cultural importance. Water environmental bottom lines and requiring councils to quality and ecological integrity, particularly in lowland set resource use limits to meet these. Collaborative lakes, are deteriorating at an accelerating rate. Despite processes implementing this policy have seen some the drivers of ecosystem health decline being well communities opting for more aspirational restoration understood, attempts to restore lakes often have goals. Actions to meet new swimmability targets mixed success. Even after release from key drivers of also provide opportunities for broader restoration of degradation (e.g. invasive species or nutrient inputs), freshwaters. feedback processes continue to hamper recovery to Restoration is challenging because it often requires desirable states. In this talk, we (1) outline the current concerted action to reduce contaminant inputs, state of knowledge on the health of New Zealand’s > account for response time lags (e.g. delayed historical 3,000 lakes, (2) describe the contrasting approaches and current contamination in aquifers with long used and issues involved with trying to restore New residence times), manage the legacy effects of physical Zealand lakes, and (3) highlight some of the recent habitat change and contaminant accumulation in science advances developed under the MBIE-funded ‘environmental sinks’ (e.g. lake sediments), control project ‘Enhancing the health and resilience of New invasive species, and enhance connectivity to allow Zealand lakes’ that aim to enhance knowledge on lake diverse natural biota to re-establish. These restoration health and improve restoration success. challenges point to the benefit of avoiding degradation, and protecting ecosystems and the services they provide. NOTES: ‘Cracks of light’ have emerged recently in restoration success stories across streams and some large lakes, but more tools and much wider action are needed. The suite of actions is likely to be most effective if limit setting and freshwater restoration efforts are linked systematically with strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, adapt to forecast changes in climate and associated flow regimes, enhance terrestrial biodiversity, control pests (e.g. the Predator Free New Zealand campaign) and incentivise restorative behaviours (e.g. through enabling market premiums based on substantiated environmental credentials, as promoted in the Our Land and Water National Science Challenge).
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10.45-11.00 11.00-11.15 HAVELOCK NORTH: THE ROLE GROUNDWATER BIODIVERSITY: A OF GENOMIC TECHNOLOGIES IN CURIOSITY OR A MAJOR ECOSYSTEM INVESTIGATING THE WORLD’S LARGEST SERVICE PROVIDER? WATER-BORNE CAMPYLOBACTERIOSIS Fenwick G OUTBREAK NIWA Gilpin B Stygofauna was first discovered in New Zealand’s ESR huge aquifers long ago, but its biodiversity remains In August 2016 over 5,000 people became ill with unrecognised. Preliminary results show substantial campylobacteriosis following consumption of biodiversity, with apparently high regional endemism, reticulated water in Havelock North, New Zealand. The including some short-range endemism. The results of aim of this paper is to describe how new genotyping a detailed review of the limited local and international methods (multiplex binary typing, MBiT) and whole research reveal that that this stygofauna is functionally genome sequencing were used to characterise important within aquifer ecosystems and to delivering campylobacter isolated from the clinical cases, water ecosystem services vital to New Zealanders and our and suspected environmental sources. economy. As a consequence, a new paradigm for Three different genotypes of campylobacter were managing groundwater is urgently required. isolated from the reticulated water supply, and these were also found in 55% of clinical cases. Two other genotypes of campylobacter were found among another 27% of clinical cases. Three of these five genotypes were also found in isolates from sheep in a NOTES: nearby paddock. In the initial stages of the outbreak, investigation MBiT analysis confirmed a link between cases and the water 1 day after receipt of primary isolation plates, while whole genome sequencing was completed another 3 days later. Genotype analysis also helped focus the investigation on ruminant sources rather than poultry or other possible sources. This outbreak confirmed the utility of MBiT analysis for rapid genotyping, including of isolates that were no longer able to be cultured. A range of genotypes of campylobacter were present in the environment, but genotyping of these identified that those from sheep were indistinguishable from isolates from clinical cases. In contrast, isolates from wildfowl and other sources were genetically quite different, and not responsible for the outbreak. Genetic-based tools will have an increasing role in outbreak investigations. To make sense of these analyses, it is important to understand the biological diversity of isolates from a range of sources, and to understand the genetic variation that may exist.
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11.15-11.30 11.30-11.45 MANAGING AND PREDICTING TIPPING REVERSING ECOSYSTEM TIPPING POINTS POINTS IN NEW ZEALAND ON THE HIKURANGI FLOODPLAIN Yletyinen J Clarkson B, Bartlam S, Watts C University of Canterbury Landcare Research
We live in an era of unprecedented change. The The biodiversity of the remaining natural habitat cumulative impact of human activities is affecting remnants on the Hikurangi floodplain was assessed the environment on local and global levels with far- to prioritise opportunities for restoration as part of the reaching consequences, yet at the same time we are Fonterra–Department of Conservation Living Water becoming increasingly aware of our dependence on programme. The floodplain has been extensively a healthy environment. The social–ecological system developed and very little of the original forest and (SES) concept emphasises that humans are part of wetland ecosystems remains. Two ecosystems – nature. Of particular concern in SES research is the lowland forest and raised peat bog – were identified finding that the SES typically has tipping points: critical as being under serious threat, with ecological decline thresholds where accelerating change caused by a driven by weed invasion (forest) and loss of keystone positive feedback can drive the system to a new state. species (bog). Regeneration of native forest was Tipping-point events are challenging for management, being compromised by dense layers of the alien herb as they usually occur unexpectedly, when the system Tradescantia fluminensis, which carpeted the ground, is no longer able to absorb pressure, and include especially in farm remnants fenced from stock. Peat immediate loss of ecosystem services. formation in the bogs was being compromised by In New Zealand, nature and natural resources are the absence of Sporadanthus ferrugineus, a key under increasing pressure, from both domestic and peat-forming species in restiad (Restionaceae) raised international sources. Our project aims to anticipate bogs. We analysed peat cores to confirm the historical tipping-point events that may occur in our social– presence of Sporadanthus, now locally extinct from ecological systems. We study, for instance, tipping Northland. To enhance recovery of these ecosystems, points related to natural habitats, harvesting strategies two restoration projects were set up: weed control and cultural keystone species. Importantly, we strive of forest remnants using biocontrol beetles; and re- to identify case-specific leverage points (i.e. places establishing Sporadanthus in a bog remnant. within the system where small management effort can A forest restoration experiment was established in cause a widespread effect). This project also aims to March 2016 to compare two different approaches to the understand how the tipping-point mechanism can be management of Tradescantia: three biocontrol beetle utilised to purposefully move an SES to a new, desired species (released as a trio), which target different state. In addition to improved understanding of local parts of the plant, and hand clearing. We compare social–ecological resilience, New Zealand-specific Tradescantia growth, native invertebrate communities tipping-point research is essential for policy-makers and native plant regeneration, as well as providing to reduce the risks of undesired tipping points, and to source populations of the biocontrol beetles for guide regional adaptation to global changes. wider control of the plant. In the bog project, analysis of peat macrofossils indicated that Sporadanthus originally occurred but had become locally extinct NOTES: during European settlement. Analyses of nutrients indicate that environmental conditions are still suitable for the reintroduction of Sporadanthus. Restoration of hydrological regimes is currently underway, followed by a restoration experiment on translocating Sporadanthus .These projects provide early promise of slowing or reversing biodiversity decline in floodplain habitat remnants.
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11.45-12.00 12.00-12.15 THE USE OF TRADITIONAL HARVESTING RESTORING RESILIENCE IN THE WAIAPU METHOD, THE TAU KŌURA, FOR CATCHMENT FRESHWATER SOCIO- MONITORING KŌURA (FRESHWATER ECOLOGICAL SYSTEM CRAYFISH) POPULATIONS Edwards P1,2, Velarde S1, Wallace L1, Barnard T1, Brendan J Hicks1, Ian A Kusabs1,2, John M Wreford A1, Porou T3, Warmenhoven T3, Pohatu Quinn3 P3 1School of Science, Faculty of Science and Engineering, 1Scion, 2Victoria University of Wellington, 5Ngāti Porou University of Waikato, 2Ian Kusabs and Associates Limited, 3National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Freshwater ecosystems are not only about the natural Limited environment, but include humans and their social systems. Restoring and ensuring that these socio- The tau kōura is a traditional Māori fishing method that ecological systems that have freshwater at their was commonly used to harvest kōura or freshwater core are resilient requires long-term solutions. This crayfish (Paranephrops planifrons) in the Te Arawa holistic concept has been embedded in a 100-year and Taupō lakes where kōura are abundant. When memorandum of understanding signed between Ngāti tau kōura were deployed, a line of whakaweku or Porou, Gisborne District Council and the Ministry of bracken fern bundles (Pteridium esculentum) was Primary Industries, with the overall aspiration of healthy placed on the lake bed for kōura to take refuge in. water, healthy land and healthy people in the Waiapu A variation of the tau kōura was also traditionally catchment. used to harvest kōura and small fish in streams and The Waiapu River is of great cultural and spiritual rivers; we evaluated this method to assess kōura and significance to Ngāti Porou. For more than a century fish abundance quantitatively by comparison with the catchment and the people who depend on its established capture methods. Mean catch rates in the resources have been subjected to a series of significant Te Wairoa Stream were about 8 kōura whakaweku-1, environmental, social and economic shocks, leaving it similar to the catch in fyke nets, but whakaweku caught one of the poorest communities in the country. a wider range of sizes than other methods, especially Through a 3-year action research project, we aim to young-of-the-year juveniles. Whakaweku were also encourage and accelerate positive socio-ecological highly successful at catching bullies (Gobiomorphus transformations that will contribute to the long-term spp.), with a mean catch rate of 20 bullies whakaweku-1 restoration of, and resilience in, the Waiapu catchment. in the Mangaotama Stream, which far exceeded Our multi-methods approach includes: catches from other methods. Because of the low cost • understanding the problem through a sustainable of materials and minimal training required we contend livelihoods approach (DFID) and social network that the whakaweku method has considerable potential analysis, to identify key actors’ strengths, network for monitoring kōura populations in streams and is overlaps and gaps where collaboration is needed particularly suitable for use by iwi and community • implementing adaptive governance principles for groups (i.e., citizen science). transformational change, and assessing progress • role-playing simulation games among the key NOTES: memorandum of understanding partners and other key actors to increase understanding of the different perspectives and challenges that each faces in restoring the catchment • co-developing indicators of catchment restoration, guided by the 100-year memorandum’s aspirations. • following a reflexive process throughout the action research project. We offer mid-project reflections from this project, with the aim of long-term transformation and resilience- building in this vulnerable catchment. The methods can be adapted to any socio-ecological system that requires addressing complex socio-cultural and environmental problems.
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PLENARY 13.00-13.30 PLENARY 13.30-14.00 NEW ZEALAND IN CONTEXT: WHY DO WE URBAN ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION: THE HAVE SO MANY THREATENED SPECIES? NEW FRONTIER? Duncan R Clarkson B University of Canberra University of Waikato For its size New Zealand has a disproportionate New Zealand has a long and enviable record in number of the world’s threatened species, particularly conservation biology, which began with Wildlife birds. Why is this? Most explanations stress that Service efforts to save endemic birds from extinction New Zealand is a recently colonised archipelago by protecting them on offshore islands. This with a long history of isolation and a large number of progressed to ecosystem restoration in mainland endemic bird species. But this is not the full story. New sanctuaries across the country, but mostly on lands Zealand was part of a massive prehistoric extinction administered by the Department of Conservation. In event that accompanied rapid human colonisation of the last two decades the research and practice of remote Pacific islands over the last several thousand ecological restoration has expanded into degraded years. Over 1,000 bird species are estimated to have urban environments, which present a different set of gone extinct across the Pacific, but the extinction rate constraints and opportunities. I will outline how my varied: larger, wetter islands like New Zealand had a own research to understand vegetation pattern and lower extinction rate than smaller, drier islands. This process, and vegetation recovery after natural volcanic uneven pattern of extinction, linked to island location disturbance, has evolved to provide a framework and geography, meant that disproportionately more to understand how best to restore or reconstruct extinction-prone bird species survived on New Zealand indigenous ecosystems in urban settings. Using than on other islands. These species were then examples from several cities around New Zealand, vulnerable to the threats that accompanied European I will discuss the results of research underpinning arrival, resulting in the recent high levels of extinction community and council restoration planting and and threat. New Zealand is a global hotspot for pest control efforts. I will also canvas how the new biodiversity conservation due in large part to its unique discipline of urban ecology can help engage urban size and geography relative to other Pacific islands. dwellers (87% of our population) with environmental issues and reconnect people with nature to provide a NOTES: more realistic chance of reversing the decline of New Zealand’s biodiversity. In brief, I will make the case for supporting community and council endeavours to bring nature back into cities as the new conservation frontier.
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14.00-14.15 14.15-14.30 RESTORING TARANAKI: CREATING A NEW CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS ON THE NORMAL BIODIVERSITY OF AOTEAROA: ARE WE Honnor L1, Ellis S1,2 LEAVING OUR FROGS TO BOIL? 1Wild for Taranaki, 2Taranaki Regional Council Macinnis-ng C1, Boudjelas S1, Clark C2, Clearwater M3, Curran T4, Dickinson K5, Wild for Taranaki is on a mission to create a new normal McIntosh A6, Monks J7,5, Nelson N2, Peltzer D8, in Taranaki. Backyards, schools, parks, reserves, 1 2 8 5 waterways and our coastline will be transformed. Perry G , Renwick J , Richardson S , Rufuat C , 1 9 6 6 Native species will thrive in the absence of pests, water Stanley M , Waipara N , Warburton H , White R 1 2 quality will be improving and we will have a healthier University of Auckland, Victoria University of Wellington, 3University of Waikato, 4Lincoln University, 5University more connected community. Wild for Taranaki’s of Otago, 6University of Canterbury, 7Department of 33 member groups and organisations are working Conservation, 8Landcare Research, 9Auckland Council to protect our biodiversity. One of our Strategic Plan directives includes developing a collaborative, Of the major threats to Aotearoa–New Zealand’s unique high-value, flagship regional project to protect a biodiversity, climate change receives less attention than range of ecosystems by undertaking pest control other threatening stressors like invasive species. In a on a landscape scale. Building on existing work, recent survey of public perceptions of New Zealand’s Restoring Taranaki aims to stimulate local people and environment commissioned by Forest and Bird, fewer communities to take action. This ambitious programme than 10% of respondents identified climate change as the will begin in mid-2017. most important environmental issue facing New Zealand. Restoring Taranaki will see existing projects thrive However, in the same survey almost 35% of respondents and grow. Under a new initiative, members will work identified climate change as being the most pressing issue with iwi, landowners and the corporate sector to globally. There is a general feeling that New Zealand’s transform their land into ‘a little piece of paradise’, natural and productive ecosystems are somehow buffered where biodiversity is valued, protected and flourishing, from climate modification. with our community as its defender. It is an inter- In a 2-day national workshop funded by the Biological generational project. Over time the mosaic of healthy Heritage National Science Challenge in late 2016, we areas will connect until the whole region is restored, considered the research effort and activity required to establishing a new normal. The involvement of the protect our bioheritage from a changing climate. As an Taranaki community is crucial to achieve success and island nation, rising sea levels make coastal ecosystems sustainability. Restoring Taranaki hopes to achieve particularly vulnerable. Beyond sea-level rise, however, significant social change. The programme will begin in we found that the direct effects of climate change may New Plymouth District, because it is the most populated be rare or negligible, but interactive effects must be part of our region so could achieve the greatest level of evaluated because climate change will exacerbate current engagement by our community. environmental problems (e.g. vegetation susceptibility This presentation will outline the framework of to fire). Interactive effects may be highly predictable. For Restoring Taranaki, discussing the three interwoven instance, there is growing awareness of water-related plans, which focus on: issues (including water quality and availability), and with • community engagement increasing frequency of both droughts and floods, climate • operational rollout change is likely to place increased pressure on our • fundraising freshwaters. But the indirect impacts of climate change are Restoring Taranaki will integrate with Project Taranaki often more difficult to predict, causing surprising outcomes. Mounga to transform the second-best region in the Although the impacts of invasive species remain the world, contributing to the national goal of a Predator greatest threat to conservation efforts, the damage they Free New Zealand by 2050. cause will be intensified in ecosystems that are suffering under unfavourable conditions such as hot, dry weather. We will outline key threatening processes, identify vulnerable ecosystems and explain why the mechanisms of climate change impacts are different here. Finally, we will highlight why climate change should not be disregarded as a threat to conservation in Aotearoa–New Zealand.
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14.30-14.45 14.45-15.00 BEYOND RIPARIAN FENCING: THE ENVIRONMENTAL LEGACY OF PARTNERING ECOSYSTEM SCALING, MODERN TROPICAL DEFORESTATION SERVICES AND SOCIETY TO ACHIEVE Ewers R STREAM RESTORATION Imperial College, London Collins K, Febria C1, McIntosh A1, Harding J1 1University of Canterbury Tropical deforestation has caused a significant share of carbon emissions and species losses, but historical Restoration has become a key management and patterns have rarely been explicitly considered when policy tool for returning ecosystems to a less- estimating these impacts. A deforestation event today degraded state. In practice, outcomes are often leads to a time-delayed future release of carbon, disappointing due to a lack of goal setting, inadequate from the eventual decay either of forest products or monitoring and implementation, as well as failure to of slash left at the site. Similarly, deforestation often manage stakeholder expectations. Some failures does not result in the immediate loss of species, and are unsurprising, often due to a lack of science and communities may exhibit a process of ‘relaxation’ to assessment tools in the very places where restoration their new equilibrium over time. is being undertaken. Local, place-based experiments We used a spatially explicit land cover change model are one way of minimising the risk of failures and to reconstruct the annual rates and spatial patterns of ensuring uptake and feasibility. However, they can tropical deforestation that occurred between 1950 and also be risky for managers and farmers to take on, and 2009 in the Amazon, in the Congo Basin, and across require a considerable trust between scientists, policy- Southeast Asia. Using these patterns, we estimated makers, practitioners and the public. Finding ways the resulting gross vegetation carbon emissions and to assess the effectiveness of restoration tools while species losses over time. Importantly, we accounted minimising the risk of disappointment is a challenge for for the time lags inherent in both the release of carbon restoration ecology and practice. and the extinction of species. We show that even if We have developed a partnership-based framework deforestation had completely halted in 2010, time lags for applying and evaluating restoration tools on private ensure there would still be a carbon emissions debt and public lands, alongside farmers, councils and the of at least 8.6 petagrams, equivalent to 5–10 years of community, while investigating the interactive effects global deforestation, and an extinction debt of more of ecosystem scale and services. The Canterbury than 140 bird, mammal and amphibian forest-specific Waterway Rehabilitation Experiment (CAREX; www. species, which, if paid, would increase the number carex.org.nz) was launched in 2014 and sought to of 20th century extinctions in these groups by 120%. operationalise the ecosystem services framework as Given the magnitude of these debts, commitments to a way of co-developing restoration science alongside reduce emissions and biodiversity loss are unlikely stakeholders. We found that trusted partnerships (i.e. to be realised without specific actions that directly networks of trust) increased our ability for restoration address this damaging environmental legacy. risks to be taken, which in turn increased ecological outcomes. We predicted that restoration outcomes in biophysical and social terms are higher where trusted NOTES: partnerships are also high. Such a framework is in particular need across catchments where multiple stressors and ecological functions are interacting at small and large spatial and temporal scales. A partnership-based toolbox approach offers a range of possible solutions that align science with individual stakeholder priorities and real-time policy and decision- making needs. We showcase successes, failures and lessons learned for pursuing crazy, ambitious research in order to achieve in-stream restoration success.
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CONCURRENT SYMPOSIA: THREATENED 10.45-11.00 SPECIES SUMMIT SESSION 1 – UNITING AGAINST INVADERS KĀKĀPŌ GENOMICS: SEQUENCING THE GENOMES OF AN ENTIRE SPECIES 10.15-10.30 Digby A1, Robertson B2, Howard J3, Iorns D4, THE VALUE OF THREATENED SPECIES TO Vercoe D1, Eason D1 ‘NEW ZEALAND INCORPORATED’ 1Department of Conservation, 2Otago University, 3Duke University, 4Genetic Rescue Foundation Fenwick R Predator Free NZ trust A very ambitious conservation project is under way to sequence the genomes of every living kākāpō – a first The role New Zealand’s threatened species play in for any species. An international collaboration that has our country’s social, cultural and economic prosperity, attracted worldwide attention, the project is funded by with specific reference to volunteers and community a combination of crowd funding and private donations. achievements. Over $75,000 has been donated and the genomes of 80 kākāpō have been sequenced. The data from NOTES: the genomes will be made publically available for research, and the resulting analyses will transform kākāpō conservation by greatly improving genetic management, establishing the genetic causes of the low fertility and disease that threaten the species, and significantly improving understanding of kākāpō population genetics. There will also be wider benefits: revealing the evolutionary history of one of the world’s most unique birds; providing a test case for managing, analysing and sharing bioinformatic data from population genome data sets; and show-casing New Zealand-led, groundbreaking conservation and genomics research. These population genomic data will also inform the potential future use of genetic editing to reverse the impacts of inbreeding on kākāpō genetic diversity.
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11.00-11.15 11.15-11.30 USING AN ACUTE TOXIN FOR WHAT RECOVERY OF THE NORTH ISLAND ERADICATION: ARE YOU CRAZY?! KŌKAKO REQUIRES Bell P, Sjoberg T, Mulgan N Innes J1, Thurley T2, Speed H2, Wills S2, Burns Zero Invasive Predators R2, Barea L2, Flux I3, Weiser E4, Overdyck O2 1Landcare Research, 2Department of Conservation, Achieving the Predator Free New Zealand 2050 goal 3Consultant, 4Otago University requires a tool that can completely remove these predators efficiently across large forested landscapes. North Island kōkako are recovering in 11 relic and 11 Currently, in these habitats aerial 1080 is successfully translocated populations due to intensive pest (ship used to suppress rat and possum populations for rat and possum) control. All unmanaged populations ecological benefit and disease control. Ongoing are now extinct. While predation is the primary driver refinement of this technique over the past two decades of current declines, food supply and habitat quality has led to it being widely considered the most cost- also matter. Twelve populations are managed mainly effective method for landscape-scale control. However, or significantly by community groups. In this talk we these control operations do not remove all target will summarise a new draft Recovery Plan (2017–2025), individuals from the treatment areas. Furthermore, early describe how communities and the Department of exploratory work on island eradication methodologies Conservation partition effort in kōkako recovery, and suggested an acute toxin was not the right tool to discuss what kōkako recovery needs to be sustained in achieve complete removal. the future. This includes managing for allele retention Despite this, Zero Invasive Predators (ZIP) undertook in all populations, which is helped by numerous a trial on Mt Taranaki to measure how close to zero an population founders, high population growth rates and aerial 1080 operation gets, and whether an enhanced large carrying capacity of sites. prescription could improve that. The ZIP prescription successfully achieved functional extinction of possums from the trial area, but a small number of rats survived. Those survivors were then live captured to understand NOTES: how survivors behave in a ‘lonely’ landscape, and to determine whether 1080 aversion was present. Results suggest that 1080 aversion is very limited in survivors, and a repeat application of 1080 (utilising a yet-to-be-determined alternative matrix) could remove all remaining survivors. Further trials are planned for winter 2017. These results offer an exciting potential to drive the predator-free 2050 movement with large- scale predator removal operations using aerial 1080.
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11.30-11.45 13.00-13.20 WAR ON WEEDS – WINNING AGAINST THE THREATENED SPECIES STRATEGY WILDINGS Toki N Briden K Department of Conservation Department of Conservation New Zealand has extremely high rates of endemism The spread of wilding conifers is a serious threat to and one of the highest proportions of threatened New Zealand’s threatened species. In spite of existing species in the world. There is an urgent need to control efforts, wilding conifers had spread at 6% per channel our current threatened species conservation year from the 1930s to affect 1.8 million hectares of efforts into one strategic approach that will achieve New Zealand’s land area by 2016. They were predicted greater outcomes overall. The Threatened Species to affect 20% of land area within 20 years. Many of Strategy takes an evidence-based approach, and our naturally rare ecosystems are harsh/disturbed aims to halt the decline of threatened species and sites containing threatened species. These sites are restore healthy populations through achieving four key particularly vulnerable to wilding conifer invasion. goals by 2025. Building on existing commitments and Wilding conifers are well adapted to grow at high programmes, such as Predator Free 2050 and Battle altitudes and could eventually replace much of our for our Birds, the strategy identifies further steps we sub-alpine and alpine vegetation. In Budget 2016 an need to take not only to restore those species that additional $16 million was allocated to wilding conifer are already at risk of extinction, but also to prevent control over 4 years. In year one our ambitious target others from becoming threatened. We invite all New is to spend $5 million to clear a million hectares of light Zealanders to be a part of that effort. infestations.
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13.20-13.35 13.35-13.55 AUSTRALIAN PERSPECTIVES ON THE CONVERSATION ABOUT FERAL CATS FIGHTING EXTINCTION IN NEW ZEALAND Andrews G Beattie H Threatened Species Commissioner, Australia NZ Veterinary Association In 2014 the Australian Government appointed The National Cat Management Strategy Group Australia’s first-ever Threatened Species Commissioner, (NCMSG), of which the New Zealand Veterinary Gregory Andrews, to lead a national effort in fighting Association is a member, presented its proposed extinction by raising awareness, mobilising resources strategy and key recommendations to the New Zealand and advising the Government on policy priorities. Companion Animal Council at a conference in 2016. Australia’s first-ever Threatened Species Strategy was The strategy addresses the significant societal issue of launched in 2015, with hard and measurable targets stray and feral cats in New Zealand. NCMSG’s vision is to turn around the trajectories of priority animals and that cats in New Zealand are responsibly owned and plants, and to tackle key threats like feral cats. Since valued, and should be humanely managed in a way that 2014 over $210 million has been mobilised under protects their welfare and our unique native species this new national approach, and multiple species by 2025. The NCMSG recognises there are significant trajectories are turning around as a result. Under one benefits to cat ownership, and that cats have their own of the priority targets in the Strategy, Australia will cull 2 intrinsic value and value to people, the community million feral cats by 2020. Last year 211,000 feral cats and to New Zealand society, but also acknowledges were culled, and efforts are ramping up. there are concerns regarding the impact cats have, particularly on native wildlife and pastoral industries.
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13.55-14.10 14.10-14.30 UNITING AGAINST INVADERS: CORE COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT BIOCONTROL AS A KEY WEAPON FOR THE FOR TARGETED AND MANAGEABLE WAR ON WEEDS CONSERVATION OF DIVERSITY Hayes L Ghamkhar K1,2 Landcare Research 1Agresearch, 2 Margot Forde Forage Germplasm Centre, The University of Western Australia Invasive exotic weeds have an unfavourable impact on both primary production and biodiversity values, Genetic resources and any other collection of plants including providing a significant challenge to the provide vast resources for exploring genetic diversity. survival of threatened species. Biocontrol is a key However, the size of these collections make these tool for reducing the harmful impacts of widespread explorations difficult and expensive. An approach weeds and has been used safely in New Zealand suggested for access to a more manageable for more than 90 years. I will share examples where representative of a germplasm collection is core weed biocontrol has delivered excellent outcomes collection development. Core collections are meant to already (mist flower, ragwort), where success is looking capture maximum diversity and minimum redundancy in imminent (broom, heather, lantana, tradescantia), and the genetic resources of plant species. These carefully where new agents offer future hope (Chinese privet, selected subsets represent the spectrum of diversity of Japanese honeysuckle, wild ginger). I will also outline the whole collection. Eco-geographical data are the first the process by which safe and successful agents are set of data used for sub-setting germplasm collections. found and established. This is made possible by collecting information from different environments where the individual accessions have been collected from. These eco-geographical and climatic data can be accessed at Bioclim database, NOTES: which provides data such as annual mean temperature and mean diurnal range, using passport data of the collection sites, such as latitude and longitude. The second step in developing a core collection is to use the eco-geographical subset for molecular screening using techniques such as genotyping by sequencing. The final subset and outcome of the molecular screening would be the core collection. This core should then be validated by comparing maximum, minimum, range and mean of each ecogeographic variable in the core and the original collections. A very recent example of an efficient core collection is the world collection of subterranean clover, which was reduced from 10,000 accessions to 97. The core collection is now being screened for different traits, and also allele mining. Margot Forde Germplasm Centre is now conducting the same process in the world collection of two species, Lolium perenne L. and Trifolium repens L., each having >2,500 accessions globally. The same process can be applied to any other species for manageable conservation of germplasm and targeted study of specific traits, environments and G x E associations.
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14.30-15.00 CONCURRENT SYMPOSIA: THREATENED SPECIES SUMMIT SESSION 2 THE ROLE OF BOTANIC GARDENS IN – CONSERVATION WITHOUT BORDERS THREATENED PLANT CONSERVATION (BEYOND PUBLIC CONSERVATION LAND) 1 2 Hobbs J , and Rolfe J 14.30-16.45 1Auckland Botanic Gardens, 2DOC Botanic gardens are uniquely placed to play an THE FUTURE OF THREATENED SPECIES important role in the conservation of threatened plant IN CAPTIVITY AND THE ROLE OF ZOOS IN species. This presentation outlines the collective role CONSERVATION that NZ botanic gardens can play in protecting plant Fifield 12K biodiversity in NZ, and the specific contribution they 1Wellington Zoo Trust, 2Zoo and Aquarium Association can make in the new partnership with DOC. Australasia (ZAA) Regional Board Horticultural and propagation expertise allows botanic Good zoos, wildlife parks and aquariums have species gardens to play a key role in ex situ conservation conservation at their heart. The 25 New Zealand through curating living plant collections and seed members of the Zoo and Aquarium Association banking of threatened plant species. Australasia (ZAA) work with a range of conservation High visitor numbers enable them to play an important partners and agencies across our country to save educational role through creating awareness of the New Zealand threatened species. The Department plight of threatened plant species to diverse audiences. of Conservation and ZAA have a memorandum They can also make an important contribution to of understanding regarding the collaboration that research projects. occurs between the two organisations for species conservation. Good zoos, aquariums and wildlife parks play a significant role in field research, species management, husbandry advice, breeding for NOTES: restoration, advocacy and specialist veterinary care for New Zealand native wildlife.
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16.05-16.25 16.25-16.40 WHY BUSINESS SHOULD INVEST IN WHY PROTECTING NATURE ON PRIVATE THREATENED SPECIES LAND IS PIVOTAL TO AGRICULTURE’S Barclay N FUTURE SUCCESS Meridian Energy Steele D Blue Duck Station Meridian Energy’s general manager of retail, Neal Barclay, will be speaking about why Meridian has ‘Farming, conservation and tourism need to go hand partnered with the Department of Conservation to in hand for New Zealand’s future’, Whakahoro farmer support the Kākāpō Recovery Programme. and entrepreneur Dan Steele says. He was one of New As a generator of electricity from 100% renewable Zealand’s four Nuffield Scholars last year, and what he sources (wind and water), the health of the environment learned overseas strengthened views he had from the is intrinsic to Meridian’s operations. The recognition outset. His own farm is an example of what he would of this is the primary reason for the company being like to see. Blue Duck Station covers 1,460 hectares in involved with threatened species recovery. Neal will the remote Retaruke Valley adjoining the Whanganui share his thoughts on the important role business plays River and Whanganui National Park. It gets 8,000 in environmental sustainability. visitors a year, has 10 full-time staff plus part-time staff and volunteers, and runs 5,000 breeding ewes, 800 cattle and 150 red deer. NOTES:
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CONCURRENT SYMPOSIA: PARTNERING WITH 16.00-16.15 COMMUNITIES BIODIVERSE CITIES AND A KIWI IN EVERY 15.30- 16.00 GARDEN CITIZEN SCIENCE FOR CONSERVATION: Freeman C, van Heezik Y HOW CAN WE DO BETTER HERE? University of Otago Peters M Seven-eighths of New Zealand’s population lives in people+science urban areas, and most future growth will take place in cities. The loss of vegetated and open spaces The term ‘citizen science’ has been variously through infill and hard landscaping is escalating, and embraced, disputed, discussed and applied to a prominent in the media are demands for cheap housing wide range of activities where members of the public at higher densities to address housing shortages. Will engage in scientific studies. Often it’s just collecting the pressure to accommodate more people mean data, but it may also include co-designing studies, fewer spaces for native wildlife? We argue that it as well as analysing and sharing the results. In need not be like this. We propose that cities can act as New Zealand, citizen science includes community wildlife sanctuaries, a place where people and wildlife environmental groups monitoring the results of their can coexist. Though highly modified, well-planned pest control and habitat restoration, voluntary societies cities can and should provide resources for many logging species occurrences, and schools and species, serve as refuges, support a diverse biota, and others partnering with science providers to conduct provide for an increasingly culturally diverse human novel ecological studies. It’s no surprise that citizen population with wellbeing benefits. We show how science activities in this country are on the increase: this new biodiverse future city might look and identify biodiversity decline, water quality issues, user-friendly the processes by which it can be realised. With an new technologies, alternative sources of funding and engaged population that has easy access to biodiverse the need to narrow the divide between science and the spaces, and committed biodiverse-aware planning, our public are all contributing factors. cities can function to support native biodiversity, and This talk provides a snapshot of what citizen in doing so foster our own well-being and our sense of science has so far achieved for species and habitat national identity. Let’s create spaces for New Zealand’s conservation in New Zealand. Activities are examined unique and threatened wildlife, including the kiwi, in all against international citizen science projects and urban neighbourhoods and gardens. Their needs can programmes, and the question is asked: how can we and should be part of the urban development process. do better here? Over the last 18 months this question has been tackled by over 200 people attending citizen science workshops, mostly via NZ Landcare Trust’s NOTES: Citizen Science Meets Environmental Restoration project. To conclude, their ideas will be presented, most of which are entirely logical, many of which are urgent, and some of which are very ambitious. Ultimately, the aim is to create a more cohesive citizen science ‘movement’ that is well supported and valued for the positive conservation outcomes it achieves.
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16.15-16.30 16.30-16.45 CITIZEN SCIENCE FOR REFINEMENT OF SHIPS IN THE NIGHT: THE VEXED KAURI DIEBACK CONTROL TOOLS INTERFACE OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY Horner I AND ECOLOGICAL LIMITS IN NEW The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Limited ZEALAND Brown M Kauri dieback, caused by Phytophthora agathidicida, is resulting in the decline and death of kauri trees New Zealand is a lucky country, with a wealth of throughout northern New Zealand. Loss of these natural capital including unique ecosystems and taonga trees is not only affecting the integrity of the world-class landscapes. However, just as we lead in remaining kauri forest, but is also causing a deep the aesthetics, so too we lead in the threats. We have emotional impact on communities. A Biological the highest proportion of threatened species in the Heritage National Science Challenge citizen science world, our landmass has endured one of the most project has recently commenced, aiming to facilitate rapid transformations anywhere, and the declining community involvement in research to refine tools for indicators across land, freshwater and sea make for kauri dieback control. The programme, named Kauri jarring reading. Invasive predators, habitat clearance, Rescue™, will initially focus on phosphite treatment, extractive industries (e.g. fishing, mining) and other but will also facilitate the investigation of other tools, impacts place our vulnerable heritage continually under including potential solutions from traditional Māori siege. knowledge. As a nation we have also poured considerable energy Under the programme, landowners with Phytophthora into our environmental legislation, promulgating a agathidicida-infected kauri trees will be provided with wealth of legal instruments to protect public goods tools to treat trees on their own properties. Participants from private exploitation. The depth and breadth of will also be provided with the resources to collect these instruments are obvious – but are they effective? prescribed data about the site, monitor tree health, Do they successfully limit exploitation beyond limits and follow lesion development and responses to and preserve environmental function for the greater treatments. By collating data from multiple landowners, good, as desired? There are strong indications that sites and situations, we anticipate that the refinement these desired outcomes are not being achieved, of treatment tools will be substantially accelerated, and this presentation examines the evidence for the well beyond what would be possible in formal scientific effectiveness of policy charged with recognising trials. ecological limits, using a range of examples from The project team comprises scientists, social scientists, around New Zealand. The factors for success and Māori and community groups. A major part of the failure are examined in each situation. work will be fostering the development of local This presentation then examines why this interface is community action groups around kauri dieback control. so vexed – why, despite laudable goals, environmental Community engagement, knowledge and attitudes policy so rarely recognises and enforces behaviour that to kauri dieback, and responses to our programme, will see us remain within ecological limits. The solutions will be monitored throughout. We anticipate that this to this phenomenon do exist, and the presentation community engagement in kauri dieback control work concludes by setting out what they are and how we will encourage future participation in other biosecurity might implement them. and conservation-related issues. We will discuss details of the early rollout of the programme, including pilot participant training and engagement with the community. NOTES:
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16.45-17.00 17.00-17.15 LANDSCAPE-SCALE BIODIVERSITY NON-TRADITIONAL PARTNERSHIPS ARE RESTORATION: AN IWI- AND COMMUNITY- FUNDAMENTAL TO THE MANAGEMENT OF DRIVEN PROCESS DOMESTIC CATS Handford P Kikillus H1, Emeny M1, Taylor N2 Groundtruth 1Wellington City Council, 2Wellington SPCA This presentation shows how biodiversity restoration Cats are very popular pets in New Zealand, but they that is driven by the interests of iwi and community also have the ability to negatively affect native wildlife and integrated with commercial land uses is essential and cause a nuisance to neighbours. As a result, their to both short-term progress and long-term success in management is a major challenge. No national body or enhancing and preserving biodiversity. It puts forward a law for the management of owned cats currently exists practical model for applying restoration at a landscape in New Zealand. However, in November 2014 several scale and experience with the practical application of organisations came together to form the National Cat these approaches. Management Strategy Group. Member organisations Over recent years there has been increasing interest include the New Zealand Veterinary Association, in landscape-scale restoration. Integrated catchment the New Zealand Companion Animal Council, the management has also been a widely used concept. Royal New Zealand Society for the Prevention of Management of biodiversity and biodiversity restoration Cruelty to Animals, the Morgan Foundation, and Local is critically about connections and relationships across Government New Zealand. Technical advisors to a landscape of species, habitat, land use and, very the group include the Department of Conservation importantly, people. We have many of the practical and the Ministry for Primary Industries. This group’s tools to rapidly advance in biodiversity restoration, but primary objective is to promote responsible cat unless we are working with communities and at the ownership, environmental protection and humane cat right scale, progress can be limited. management. Over the past decade Groundtruth have worked At present, regulations and bylaws pertaining to the on several landscape-scale restoration and land- management of owned cats in New Zealand are use change projects. These include work in the piecemeal among individual councils. Wellington catchment of Pauatahanui Inlet at Wairarapa Moana, City Council is the first council to require pet cats to and examining criteria for landscape-scale restoration be microchipped for identification purposes. Also, across New Zealand. It has led to working with the in partnership with the SPCA and local veterinarians, support of the Allan Wilson Centre to assist Te Aitanga Wellington City Council has recently been involved in a a Hauiti and the community of Uawa Tolaga Bay low-cost desexing and microchipping campaign (Snip n to develop the Uawanui Project, which addresses Chip), which saw almost 2,000 local cats microchipped biodiversity, and economic and cultural restoration and their details registered with the New Zealand across the 50,000-hectare Uawa catchment and Companion Animal Register. Further programmes coast. These examples are used to provide a model of to encourage responsible pet ownership are in the practical landscape-scale biodiversity restoration. planning stages. This talk will discuss the challenges of setting boundaries for cat ownership in Wellington and creating new partnerships and non-traditional collaborations to reach the common goal of balancing NOTES: cats and conservation.
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WHAT DOES THE PUBLIC KNOW ABOUT NOTES: OUR NATIVE BIRDS? Fern S Biologist and story-teller, Dunedin New Zealand has a reputation of bringing bird species back from the brink of extinction. What, however, does the New Zealand public know about the present conservation status of the birds that have been “saved?” The public was asked to estimate the remaining numbers of kākāpō, takahē and Chatham Island black robin, three bird species that have similar life story narratives in the media. And, as few of us have had the privilege having an un-mediated encounter with these birds, they were also asked whether they had ever spent time with these birds in person. This talk discusses the results of this survey that showed that, both in the groups that had and the groups that had not spent time with these birds, this surveyed public massively overestimated the remaining number of kākāpō and takahē. It also suggests why the story of the Chatham Island black robin has persisted for so long.
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HOW DIGITAL MONITORING AND PLANT CONSERVATION TRAPPING TECHNOLOGIES CAN BIOTECHNOLOGIES AND GERMPLASM ACCELERATE AND COMPLEMENT GENETIC BANKS: THE FOUNDATION OF PLANT TOOLS FOR PREDATOR CONTROL CONSERVATION, RESTORATION, AND Ryan G RESPONDING TO CLIMATE CHANGE AND The Cacophony Project BIOSECURITY Van Der Walt K The Cacophony Project is an open-source IT project Wellington City Council that uses cameras, artificial intelligence (AI) and digital lures, and aims to make trapping 80,000 times more The Convention on Biological Diversity (1992) lists efficient. This set of tools will also be able to accelerate obligations on each contracting party (including New and complement genetic tools in the following ways. Zealand) to identify components of biological diversity • It will accelerate the testing and acceptance of important for its conservation and sustainable use. In genetic tools. We will probably need to test the response to these obligations, the plant conservation consequences of genetic tools before being able community launched the Global Strategy for Plant to release them. The dual-camera AI tools will be Conservation, with clear recognition given to the able to monitor at scale to test specific questions importance of ex situ conservation to support in situ like ‘What happens to an ecology if you just take initiatives. Early arguments that ex situ plant conservation mice out of the food chain?’, ‘What happens if you is an irrelevant novelty or counterproductive distraction take mice and rats out but not mustelids or cats or were discredited by numerous case studies in which possums?’, ‘What is the best sequence to remove highly threatened and/or extinct-in-the-wild plant species predators?’ and ‘Is it worth removing just one type have been successfully restored. of mustelid or do we need remove them all at same Long-term ex situ conservation technologies include seed time?’ banking for species with orthodox seeds (seeds that can • It will be easier to protect borders from escape or be dried to low moisture contents) as well as tissue culture re-entry of predators (mice and rats in particular). and cryopreservation in liquid nitrogen for species with Digital social lures have the potential to work seeds that are desiccation sensitive. Research focusing particularly well in low densities. on conservation biotechnologies is coordinated through • Genetic tools may not be able to be used for institutions such as Botanic Gardens Conservation ethical reasons (e.g. possums are protected in International, the Kew Millennium Seed Bank and the Australia) or for social reasons (e.g. cats). We International Union for the Conservation of Nature. Despite will need a scalable method to remove these the mounting scientific evidence of the importance of predators. Digital tools could tell the difference germplasm for conservation, restoration and research, between feral and chipped domestic cats. New Zealand has been slow to embrace this concept. • Digital tools will make it possible to protect areas Research is required into conservation biotechnologies with high rates of confidence to enable mainland and ex situ conservation to pave the way to success within sanctuaries for some predators (e.g. kiore or the following research priorities of NZ Biological Heritage, possums). This may become an ethical condition including: for the use of genetic tools. • reducing risks and threats: access to germplasm Given the large number of unknowns for both digital collections will enable research into disease/pest/ and genetic tools and the natural way the tools can pathogen resistance and/or susceptibility (e.g. testing complement each other, it seems prudent to develop Myrtaceae species, out of country, for susceptibility both in parallel as fast as possible. to myrtle rust will ensure effective surveillance, and inform species selection for resilient restoration • enhancing and restoring resilient ecosystems: the use of genetically representative germplasm is essential for successful restoration of threatened species. The establishment of ex situ plant collections, including all the required research into storage methods, propagation, survival requirements etc., is essential to ensure that baseline information is available to maintain and restore New Zealand’s indigenous floral species (including taonga species).
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IDENTIFYING THE BIASES CAUSED BY TRAP NATION: TECHNOLOGY ENABLING DNA EXTRACTION METHODS FOR EDNA COORDINATED PREDATOR CONTROL RESEARCH Handford P Hermans S1, Buckley H2, Curran-Cournane F3, Groundtruth Lear G1 Community-based restoration groups have flourished 1School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, 2School of Science, Auckland University of Technology, around New Zealand over the last decade. Expansion 3Auckland Council of predator control has seen these groups become a major driver of community buy-in to predator control In recent years there has been an increase in the use and its delivery on the ground. These diverse groups of molecular methods to study the diversity of both have many different members collaborating on micro- and macro-organisms present in a range of establishing and operating trapping and bait station environments. Environmental DNA, or eDNA, can be networks. Groundtruth and WWF New Zealand detected from a range of samples, including soil, leaf developed Trap.NZ to provide technology to assist litter, freshwater and sediments. Each of these sample these groups, and all organisations involved in predator types presents unique challenges for the extraction of control, to operate more efficiently and collaborate to DNA, and often different methods are used. However, establish predator control across the whole landscape. there is ample evidence that different DNA extraction Trap.NZ has been highly successful and is now used techniques not only generate different quantities by around 400 predator control projects across New and qualities of DNA, but also affect measures of Zealand. This includes both well-known major projects community richness, diversity and composition. To such as Cape to City in Hawke’s Bay and Kiwi Coast in reduce this potential bias, we seek to confirm if a Northland, as well as all manner of other projects. Trap. single extraction approach can be used to assess the NZ has the potential to be a fundamental component of diversity of DNA in a variety of sample substrates. the suite of technology driving forward and supporting We are testing the ability of six commonly used DNA the expansion of predator control in New Zealand. extraction kits to obtain high-quality DNA from different This poster demonstrates how technologies such as sample media, including soil, water, leaf litter and Trap.NZ can provide a major step up in the operation biofilm. By constructing ‘mock communities’, which are and understanding of predator control, including the composed of a range of known microbial, plant, fish linking of a distributed network of predator control and invertebrate species, we are further evaluating projects. It identifies how radio-monitored traps can each kit’s ability to extract the broadest possible range be linked into this network to offer new opportunities, of target organism DNA. Our goal is to determine if both in efficiency of trapping and engagement with the it is possible to recommend the adoption of a single community. It also shows how real-time trapping and extraction technique that performs optimally on a wide bait station results can be provided in interactive online range of sample media, and obtains DNA from both maps, allowing the ability to link a range of monitoring macro- and microorganisms. This would be greatly results to trapping projects. beneficial to the field of eDNA research by showing how molecular methods can be better integrated NOTES: into ecological studies for assessing biodiversity, the detection and tracking of invasive species, and the monitoring of endangered species.
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GROWING GRASSROOTS INNOVATION PARASITE MIMICRY OF HOSTS: Frank M IMPLICATIONS FOR BIOLOGICAL WWF-NZ CONTROL OF SOCIAL WASPS Brown B The purpose of the WWF-New Zealand Conservation Landcare Research Innovation Awards is to grow grassroots innovation. The awards celebrate the many ways that talented and Invasive social wasps are a significant problem in passionate Kiwis from different sectors come together New Zealand, and in many other countries in the to tackle New Zealand’s most significant conservation Southern Hemisphere. In their native ranges, Vespula problems. They show case action-led innovation wasps are hosts to several different parasites from by community, iwi, researchers and businesses, at least five different insect orders. A new species of and reward the most exciting ideas developed by mite, Pneumolaelaps niutirani, was recently found to innovators and start-up businesses. Some award be associated with smaller, less-aggressive Vespula winners go on to commercialise their products for colonies in New Zealand. Preliminary work has shown application in New Zealand and overseas. The awards that the mites are using chemical mimicry to disguise process is run using a crowd-sourcing platform, which themselves to avoid the wasps’ fastidious hygienic encourages feedback and collaboration. behaviour. Work still needs to be done to determine if the mites are acquiring the chemicals from the nest ‘The Conservation Innovation Awards are a great or if they are producing the cuticular hydrocarbons way of sharing ideas for conservation around NZ and that are similar to that of the queen wasp. Although building a community of conservation innovators.’ the mites are not considered a classic biological Rachel Fewster, Catch IT 2014 Runner Up control agent, they appear to be capable of spreading disease throughout the colony. Mites feed from wasp larvae secretions, which is probably the mechanism for disease vectoring. How important is mimicry to NOTES: the success of parasites infiltrating the nest of social insects? Can this system be manipulated to increase the deleterious effect the mites are having on wasps in New Zealand?
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PUBLISHING NOVEL AND BOLD IDEAS IN DUNEDIN: USING STRATEGY ECOLOGY PARTNERSHIPS TO EMPOWER CITIES TO Boyer S1, Lefort M1,2, Winder L3 DRIVE ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION 1Unitec Institute of Technology, 2Bio-Protection Research Sugishita J, McLean P, Sargeant T, Ioannou M 3 Centre, Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology Dunedin City Council At a time when the number and complexity of global Cities around the world face complex environmental ecological challenges we face is increasing, there is an challenges, such as the pollution of air, water and urgent need for new ideas and hypotheses in ecology, soil, accumulating waste, and increasing resource evolution and environmental sciences. This includes consumption and biodiversity loss, exacerbated by proposing solutions to address critical global issues climate change. As urban populations increase globally, such as climate change, food security and biodiversity the role cities play in environmental conservation loss. We contend that solutions to such challenges becomes increasingly important. require bold thinking and ideas that are potentially Dunedin is committed to safeguarding the environment, controversial. However, publishing ideas or hypotheses reducing the human impact on it and preparing for that challenge current thinking and ecological dogma the effects of climate change. The plan for taking in ‘conventional’ peer-reviewed journals is difficult. this forward is set out in Te Ao Tūroa – The Natural Often this requires thorough experimental testing , World, Dunedin’s Environment Strategy. The strategy which causes long delays before a new idea is made articulates the city’s vision to be one of the world’s available to the wider scientific community, as scientists great small cities with a thriving environment we look are reluctant to share ideas prior to their publication. after, respect and enjoy. The new open-access peer-reviewed journal Dunedin is in New Zealand’s South Island, the Rethinking Ecology, published by Pensoft, provides a world’s fifth largest city in geographical area, with unique venue for publishing novel and potentially bold approximately 120,000 residents. The natural ideas as it exclusively invites perspective papers and environment is unique, ranging from upland tussock responses. The journal offers a double-blind review grasslands to saltmarsh, and the Otago Peninsula system to enable authors to publish their best ideas is home to some of the world’s rarest species, such and perspectives, regardless of their seniority, their as yellow-eyed penguins, royal albatrosses and sea publication track record, their gender, or their country lions. Dunedin people are justifiably proud of the city’s of origin. Unique features of Rethinking Ecology natural beauty as a core part of their identity. include a percentage-based author contribution index Te Ao Tūroa takes a partnership approach to delivering that accurately reflects the true contribution of each on the city’s environmental ambitions, with everyone co-author and limits ‘guest authorship’, and a more working together to facilitate and secure a healthy sustainable publishing model whereby a proportion environment, now and into the future. The goals are: of the APC is dedicated to supporting researchers in 1) Dunedin is resilient and carbon zero; 2) Dunedin developing countries. has a healthy environment; and 3) Dunedin people Launching a new international ecology journal from care for the natural world. Delivery will require bold New Zealand was an ambitious idea in itself. With steps. Cross-sector collaboration and – perhaps most Rethinking Ecology we aspire to provide a platform for importantly – community participation are critical to inspirational ideas that will ultimately contribute to the achieving the strategy’s goals. The first step is ensuring sustainable management of ecological resources on the vision is embedded into the business-as-usual work planet Earth. In this presentation we will briefly present of the city. Also, a variety of projects and initiatives the rationale behind Rethinking Ecology, detail its call on every person in Dunedin to own the vision unique features and encourage the audience to submit and make it a fundamental part of everyday decision- their novel idea in ecology even – if they do sound a bit making. crazy!
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GERDA: ENABLING SMARTER PEST MAMMAL ERADICATION WILL BE ERADICATIONS GOOD FOR HUMAN HEALTH TOO! Stringer L1,2,3, Kean J3,4, Vereijssen J1,3, Sullivan Wilson N, Mcintyre M N1,3, Suckling D1,2,3 Dept Public Health, University of Otago Wellington 1The NZ Institute for Plant & Food Research Ltd, 2School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Tāmaki Campus, The proposed eradication of some mammal pest 3Better Border Biosecurity, 4AgResearch Limited, Ruakura species will benefit New Zealand by removing Research Centre potential wildlife pathogen reservoirs and vectors Globalisation is driving a rapid increase in the number of human and livestock disease. This, in turn, of official control programmes against invasive will reduce the risk of certain zoonotic infections arthropod pests. Biosecurity managers in New Zealand establishing here. New Zealand already incurs a and other countries are grappling with accelerating burden of imported human disease from infected rates of pest invasion and establishment, and there travellers arriving or returning home, for which are limited tools for eradication once a response is there has not been evidence to date for local initiated. Although the science and practice of pest transmission. Three New Zealand scenarios are eradication are developing rapidly, practitioners rarely outlined, involving possums, mustelids or rodents publish their experiences. as a reservoir or vector for human pathogens, for The Global Eradication and Response Database which there are elements of risk already present. (GERDA) project (http://b3.net.nz/gerda/index.php) Climate change effects will be added to this. collates published and unpublished data on eradication programmes around the world, allowing practitioners to learn from the experiences of others and enabling statistical identification of the factors that determine success or failure. Factors such as visibility of the NOTES: pest (through the provision of a lure-based trapping system for delimitation) and affected area at the time of detection have had a major impact on success rates. Currently, GERDA contains records from 105 countries on 1,095 arthropod and plant pathogen incursion responses, of which 768 are arthropod eradication programmes. Of the programmes for which the outcome has been reported, 79% have been successful, while 21% failed to eradicate the target pest. Recent reviews derived from the database have focused on factors affecting eradication of fruit flies of economic importance, pest Lepidoptera, and arthropods as a whole. Global collaboration and data sharing are enabling the elucidation of factors involved in eradication successes to create a powerful, open access knowledge centre about pest incursions and responses, including eradications. We hope GERDA will improve our ability to respond to new incursions effectively and efficiently with well-informed and defendable decisions. Preventing the establishment of new pests will allow New Zealand and other countries to maintain environmental integrity, food security and human health.
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HOW GOOD IS EDNA METABARCODING AT KIWI COAST : NORTHLAND’S DETECTING FUNGAL PATHOGENS? COMMUNITY-LED KIWI CORRIDOR Makiola A1, Dickie I1, Glare T1, Holdaway R2, Lee Tyson N C3, Orwin K2, Wood J2 Kiwi Coast 1Bio-Protection Research Centre, 2Landcare Research, 3Waikato DNA Sequencing Facility, School of Science, The Kiwi Coast is a grassroots landscape-scale University of Waikato collaborative initiative linking 86 community-led conservation projects, iwi/hapu, forestry companies, Rust fungi (Pucciniales) are important parasitic fungi government agencies and organisations in the shared known around the world. In New Zealand, Pucciniales vision of creating New Zealand’s first kiwi corridor. are a major component of natural ecosystems. They The Kiwi Coast stretches over 291km through eastern play a key role in normal ecosystem function, some Northland from Mangawhai to the Aupouri peninsula are used as biocontrol agents, while others pose a in the Far North. Together, groups involved in the major biosecurity risk for agriculture and native plants. Kiwi Coast are managing 125,217ha, making it New Reliably and cost-effectively detecting and identifying Zealand’s largest pest control project. fungal pathogens such as Pucciniales is critical to Collectively, 169,731 animal pests have been trapped on better understand these organisms and to underpin the Kiwi Coast over the last four years, demonstrating biosecurity. the value of working together on a landscape scale. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies have In 2016 alone, a total of 56,629 animal pests were the potential to develop into an effective method for trapped, meaning over 1000 pests are being destroyed the molecular identification and survey of organisms, every week. As pests removed via toxin are not allowing the simultaneous consideration of vast included in these figures, these results are minimums. numbers of species from environmental samples Monitoring demonstrates that the approach is working. (metabarcoding). Many previous studies using Analysis of a decade of kiwi call count data shows kiwi metabarcoding have looked at community diversity populations are slowly, but steadily increasing on the patterns without focusing on specific species. But how Kiwi Coast, bucking the national trend of a 2 % decline. good is metabarcoding at detecting a specific group of One longstanding community project (Backyard Kiwi) obligate plant parasitic fungi of major interest, where have increased their kiwi numbers over 12 years from the identity of fungal species is key to understanding 80 to over 700. the potential impacts? While kiwi provide an iconic focus, additional Here we use the metabarcoding approach to biodiversity gains are inevitable from such large scale investigate biases of different platforms in detecting kaitiakitanga/stewardship. Pateke, bellbird and kaka Pucciniales from within fungal communities. We use are also monitored as indicator species to investigate Illumina MiSeq and Ion Torrent sequencing, and the natural dispersal of threatened species through compare these results to a cloning approach. We the Kiwi Coast as predator control networks continue highlight biases between NGS platforms and some to grow and new communities and hapu get involved. important limitations, but also show the promising The Kiwi Coast vision of creating New Zealand’s first potential of these new techniques for protecting New kiwi corridor, where thriving kiwi can roam safely across Zealand’s biological heritage. Northland from one safe area to another, gets closer every year as communities lead the charge to not just reverse the decline of kiwi but ensure they flourish NOTES: forever.
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KIWI COAST : NORTHLAND’S HOW DOES THE EPA HELP YOUR CRAZY NOTES: COMMUNITY-LED KIWI CORRIDOR AND AMBITIOUS IDEAS COME TRUE? Tyson N Safavi M Kiwi Coast Environmental Protection Authority The Kiwi Coast is a grassroots landscape-scale Achieving a predator-free New Zealand by 2050 is collaborative initiative linking 86 community-led likely to require new approaches, such as CRISPR- conservation projects, iwi/hapu, forestry companies, based gene drives, non-GMO technologies such as government agencies and organisations in the shared Trojan females, and novel bio control agents. The vision of creating New Zealand’s first kiwi corridor. Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996 The Kiwi Coast stretches over 291km through eastern (HSNO Act) regulates ‘new organisms’, which are Northland from Mangawhai to the Aupouri peninsula defined as those organisms that were not present in the Far North. Together, groups involved in the in New Zealand immediately before 29 July 1998, Kiwi Coast are managing 125,217ha, making it New including any genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Zealand’s largest pest control project. Under the HSNO Act, any applications to import, Collectively, 169,731 animal pests have been trapped on develop, or release any new organisms are assessed the Kiwi Coast over the last four years, demonstrating by the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA). Each the value of working together on a landscape scale. application is assessed on a case-by-case basis, In 2016 alone, a total of 56,629 animal pests were reflecting the associated potential positive or adverse trapped, meaning over 1000 pests are being destroyed effects on the environment. Since each application is every week. As pests removed via toxin are not considered on its own merits, each risk assessment included in these figures, these results are minimums. will take into account all the following matters: the Monitoring demonstrates that the approach is working. sustainability of all native and valued introduced flora Analysis of a decade of kiwi call count data shows kiwi and fauna; the intrinsic value of ecosystems; public populations are slowly, but steadily increasing on the health; the relationship of Māori and their culture Kiwi Coast, bucking the national trend of a 2 % decline. and traditions with their ancestral lands, water, sites, One longstanding community project (Backyard Kiwi) wāhi tapu, valued flora and fauna, and other taonga; have increased their kiwi numbers over 12 years from the economic and related benefits and costs of 80 to over 700. using a particular new organism; and New Zealand’s While kiwi provide an iconic focus, additional international obligations. biodiversity gains are inevitable from such large scale kaitiakitanga/stewardship. Pateke, bellbird and kaka are also monitored as indicator species to investigate the natural dispersal of threatened species through the Kiwi Coast as predator control networks continue NOTES: to grow and new communities and hapu get involved. The Kiwi Coast vision of creating New Zealand’s first kiwi corridor, where thriving kiwi can roam safely across Northland from one safe area to another, gets closer every year as communities lead the charge to not just reverse the decline of kiwi but ensure they flourish forever.
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Delegate List
NAME ORGANISATION EMAIL ADDRESS
Barbara Anderson Landcare Research [email protected] Chauncy Ardell Taranaki Regional Council [email protected] Travis Ashcroft Ministry For Primary Indiustries [email protected] Jamie Ataria Lincoln University [email protected] Paul Atkins Zealandia [email protected] Jovana Balanovic Department Of Conservation [email protected] Alison Ballance Radio NZ [email protected] Genevieve Bannister Queen Elizabeth II National Trust [email protected] John Barkla Department Of Conservation [email protected] Barbara Barratt AgResearch [email protected] Jacqueline Beggs University Of Auckland [email protected] Phil Bell Zero Invasive Predators (zip) [email protected] Nardene Berry NZ Landcare Trust [email protected] Amber Bill Ministry For The Environment [email protected] Jenna Bishop Ministry For The Environment [email protected] Amanda Black Lincoln University [email protected] Helen Blackie Boffa Miskell [email protected] Richard Bowman Environment Southland [email protected] Stephane Boyer Unitec Institute Of Technology [email protected] Al Bramley Zero Invasive Predators (zip) [email protected] Melissa Brignall-Theyer Department Of Conservation [email protected] Eckehard Brockerhoff Scion (NZ Forest Research Institute) [email protected] Marie Brown Independent [email protected] Bob Brown Landcare Research [email protected] Samantha Brown Landcare Research [email protected] Teree-vontel Brown Pūhoro STEM Academy - Massey University [email protected] Thomas Buckley Biological Heritage NSC [email protected] Maree Burnett Banks Peninsula Conservation Trust [email protected] James Buwalda Innovation Strategy [email protected] Andrea Byrom NZ’s Biological Heritage NSC [email protected] Pete Caldwell Boffa Miskell [email protected] Jace Carson University of Canterbury [email protected] Fiona Carswell Landcare Research [email protected] Kevin Carter Department Of Conservation [email protected] Danica Carter Ministry For Primary Indiustries [email protected] Phill Cassey University of Adelaide [email protected] Aurelie Castinel Ministry For Primary Indiustries [email protected] Murry Cave Gisborne Gistrict Council [email protected] Olivia Chamberlain Ministry For The Environment [email protected] Mark Christensen Banks Peninsula Conservation Trust [email protected]
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Shannon Clarke AgResearch [email protected] Bev Clarkson Landcare Research [email protected] Bruce Clarkson University Of Waikato [email protected] Mick Clout University Of Auckland [email protected] Kevin Collins Collins Consulting [email protected] Katie Collins University of Canterbury [email protected] Tony Conner AgResearch [email protected] Mireille Consalvey Victoria Univeristy Of Wellington [email protected] Ena Conway Queen Elizabeth II National Trust [email protected] Tanya Cornwell Department Of Conservation [email protected] Debra Cox Sirtrack Limted [email protected] Mike Cripps AgResearch [email protected] Philippa Crisp Greater Wellington Regional Council [email protected] Bruce Davidson Environmental Protection Authority [email protected] Sky Davies Office Of The Parliamentary Commissioner For The Environment [email protected] Justine Daw Landcare Research [email protected] Natalie de Burgh Hawke’s Bay Regional Council [email protected] Peter Dearden University Of Otago [email protected] Ian Dickie Bio-protection Research Centre, Lincoln University [email protected] Mike Dickison Whanganui Regional Museum [email protected] Andrew Digby Department Of Conservation [email protected] Richard Duncan University Of Canberra [email protected] Bill Dyck Regional Councils [email protected] Eric Edwards Department Of Conservation [email protected] Peter Edwards Scion [email protected] Julian Elder Scion [email protected] Rewi Elliot Wellington City Council [email protected] Steve Ellis Taranaki Regional Council [email protected] Gareth Eloff Queen Elizabeth II National Trust [email protected] Myfanwy Emeny Wellington City Council [email protected] Robert Ewers Imperial College London [email protected] Glen Falconer Greater Wellington Regional Council [email protected] Denise Fastier Department Of Conservation [email protected] Graham Fenwick NIWA [email protected] Sophie Fern Independent [email protected] Alison Fordyce Ministry Business Innovation & Employment [email protected] Lillian Fougere Ministry For The Environment [email protected] Claire Freeman University Of Otago [email protected] Tim Gale Greater Wellington Regional Council [email protected] Austen Ganley University Of Auckland [email protected]
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NAME ORGANISATION EMAIL ADDRESS
Sean Gardiner Taranaki Regional Council [email protected] Neil Gemmell University Of Otago [email protected] Monica Gerth University Of Otago [email protected] Kioumars Ghamkhar AgResearch [email protected] Emma Giesen Wellington City Council [email protected] Judy Gilbert Windy Hill Rosalie Bay Catchment Trust [email protected] George Gill Ministry For Primary Indiustries [email protected] Aprille Gillon Greater Wellington Regional Council [email protected] Brent Gilpin ESR [email protected] Marcus Girvan Boffa Miskell [email protected] Travis Glare Bio-protection Research Centre [email protected] Dianne Gleeson University Of Canberra [email protected] Stephen Goldson Agresearch/bio-protection Research Centre [email protected] Laura Goodall Curious Minds, Royal Society of New Zealand [email protected] Richard Gordon Landcare Research [email protected] Meg Graeme Natural Solutions - Marine & Terrestrial Ecologists Ltd [email protected] Phillipa Guthrey Ministry For The Environment [email protected] Brian Habberfield Predator Free Hauraki Coromandel [email protected] Amanda Haigh Department Of Conservation [email protected] Matthew Hall Ospri [email protected] Katrina Hall Our Land and Water, National Science Challenge [email protected] Peter Handford Groundtruth [email protected] Jan Hania Next Foundation [email protected] Libby Harrison ESR [email protected] Andrew Harrison Kiwifruit Vine Health [email protected] Stephen Hartley Victoria University of Wellington [email protected] Barb Hayden NIWA [email protected] Tim Herman Pipfruit New Zealand Inc. [email protected] Syrie Hermans University Of Auckland [email protected] Veronica Herrera Ministry For Primary Indiustries [email protected] Brendan Hicks University Of Waikato [email protected] Simon Hills Massey University [email protected] Rod Hitchmough Department Of Conservation [email protected] Fiona Hodge Ministry For The Environment [email protected] Kristy Hogsden University of Canterbury [email protected] Holden Hohaia Landcare Research [email protected] Robert Holdaway Landcare Research [email protected] Leigh Honnor Taranaki Regional Council [email protected] Tim Hooson NotYetKnown Ltd - MFESI [email protected] Jude Hooson Providence Group [email protected]
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NAME ORGANISATION EMAIL ADDRESS
Ian Horner Plant & Food Research [email protected] Gary Houliston Landcare Research [email protected] Brandi Hudson Independent Maori Statutory Board [email protected] Philip Hulme Bio-protection Research Centre [email protected] Kiri Hurunui Lincoln University [email protected] Tiki Hutching Nga Whenua Rahui [email protected] Stu Hutchings Ospri [email protected] John Innes Landcare Research [email protected] Jeanne Jacobs AgResearch [email protected] Aidin Jalilzadeh Landcare Research [email protected] Scott Jarvie Department Of Zoology, University Of Otago [email protected] Todd Jenkinson Pukaha Mount Bruce [email protected] Michael Joyce Wild For Taranaki [email protected] John Kean AgResearch [email protected] Julie Knauf Department Of Conservation [email protected] Andrew Kralicek Plant & Food Research [email protected] Laura Kranz Victoria University of Wellington [email protected] Goetz Laible AgResearch [email protected] James Lambie Horizons Regional Council [email protected] Gavin Lear The University Of Auckland [email protected] Campbell Leckie Hawke’s Bay Regional Council [email protected] Phil Lester Victoria University of Wellington [email protected] Wayne Linklater Centre for Biodiversity & Restoration Ecology [email protected] Mackenzie Lovegrove Lab For Evolution And Development - University Of Otago [email protected] Audrey Lustig University of Canterbury [email protected] Edy Macdonald Department Of Conservation [email protected] Cate Macinnis-ng University Of Auckland [email protected] Bridget Makan Queen Elizabeth II National Trust [email protected] Andreas Makiola Bio-protection Research Centre [email protected] Thomas Malcolm Waikato Regional Council [email protected] Richard Maloney Department Of Conservation [email protected] James Mansell Noos [email protected] Naomi Manu Pūhoro Academy Programmes [email protected] Alby Marsh Plant & Food Research [email protected] Rob Masters Greater Wellington Regional Council [email protected] Sarah McIntyre Greater Wellington Regional Council [email protected] Mary Mcintyre University Of Otago Wellington [email protected] Devon McLean Project Janszoon [email protected] Ocean Mercier Victoria University of Wellington [email protected] Mark Mitchell Hawke’s Bay Regional Council [email protected]
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NAME ORGANISATION EMAIL ADDRESS
Jessi Morgan Predator Free NZ Trust [email protected] Donna Moses-heeney Carisbrook School [email protected] Emil Murphy Ministry For Primary Indiustries [email protected] Bjorn Oback AgResearch [email protected] Maureen O’Callaghan AgResearch [email protected] Danette Olsen Ministry Business Innovation & Employment [email protected] Barry O’Neil Kiwifruit Vine Health [email protected] Richard Palmer Horticulture New Zealand [email protected] Emily Parker Victoria University [email protected] Shannon Patterson Department Of Conservation [email protected] Stephen Pawson Scion [email protected] Roger Pech Landcare Research [email protected] Duane Peltzer Landcare Research [email protected] David Penman David Penman And Associates [email protected] Monica Peters people+science [email protected] Rob Phillips Environment Southland [email protected] Krystal Phillips Nga Whenua Rahui [email protected] Nikki Pindur Department Of Conservation [email protected] Kevin Prime Environment Court of New Zealand [email protected] John Quinn NIWA [email protected] Wendy Rakete-Stones Hawke’s Bay Regional Council [email protected] Marc Rands Royal Society Te Apārangi [email protected] Aubanie Raynal Environmental Protection Authority [email protected] Christine Reed Ministry For Primary Indiustries [email protected] Melissa Reid Department Of Conservation [email protected] Jo Ritchie Treescape Limited [email protected] Hone Ropata Plant & Food Research [email protected] Allan Ross Department Of Conservation [email protected] James Russell University Of Auckland [email protected] Grant Ryan The Cacophony Project [email protected] Rhian Salmon Victoria University / Deep South Challenge [email protected] Lewis Sanson Department Of Conservation [email protected] Alan Saunders Waikato Regional Council [email protected] Katherine Seward Ministry For The Environment [email protected] Melanie Shadbolt National Science Challenge [email protected] Danielle Shanahan Zealandia [email protected] Lee Shapiro Boffa Miskell [email protected] Helen Sharpe Ministry For The Environment [email protected] Rob Smissen Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research [email protected] Roger Smith Ministry For Primary Indiustries
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NAME ORGANISATION EMAIL ADDRESS
Robyn Smith Queen Elizabeth II National Trust [email protected] Jamie Steer University Of Auckland [email protected] Tammy Steeves University of Canterbury [email protected] Barney Stephenson Ministry For Primary Indiustries [email protected] Philippa Stevens Plant & Food Research [email protected] Georgina Stewart School of Education, AUT University [email protected] Tony Stoddard WWF-NZ [email protected] Lloyd Stringer The NZ Institute For Plant & Food Research Ltd [email protected] Junichi Sugishita Dunedin City Council [email protected] Kim Tallbear University Of Alberta [email protected] Alice Tappenden Victoria University of Wellington [email protected] Trevor Taurima Hawke’s Bay Regional Council [email protected] David Teulon Better Border Biosecurity (B3) [email protected] Theresa Thornton Hawke’s Bay Regional Council [email protected] Susan Timmins Department Of Conservation [email protected] Gail Tipa Tipa and Associates [email protected] Jacqui Todd Plant & Food Research [email protected] Jono Underwood Marlborough District Council [email protected] Pat Van Berkel Forest & Bird Upper Hutt / Friends of the Hutt River [email protected] Karin Van Der Walt Wellington City Council [email protected] Erik Van Eyndhoven Ministry For Primary Indiustries [email protected] Yolanda Van Heezik University Of Otago [email protected] Deidre Vercoe Department Of Conservation [email protected] Joshua Viers University Of California, Merced [email protected] Eduardo Villouta Stengl Department Of Conservation [email protected] Nicholas Vincent Ministry For The Environment [email protected] Nick Waipara Auckland Council [email protected] Steven Wakelin Scion [email protected] Daniel Walker CSIRO [email protected] Susan Walker Landcare Research [email protected] Hannah Walker Walker Ministry Business Innovation & Employment [email protected] James Walker Plant & Food Research [email protected] Helen Warburton University of Canterbury [email protected] Alison Waru Uawanui [email protected] Louise Weaver ESR [email protected] Roy Weaver Wild For Taranaki [email protected] Bevan Weir Landcare Research [email protected] Dave West Department Of Conservation [email protected] Kerry Weston Department Of Conservation [email protected] Patrick Whaley Waikato Regional Council [email protected]
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NAME ORGANISATION EMAIL ADDRESS
Mark Whitworth Port Of Tauranga [email protected] Lettecia Williams Moehau Environment Group [email protected] Jeff Williams Predator Free Hauraki Coromandel [email protected] Lindsay Wilson Department Of Conservation [email protected] Deb Wilson Landcare Research [email protected] Becky Wilson WWF-NZ [email protected] Aaron Wilton Landcare Research [email protected] Mara Wolkenhauer University Of Otago [email protected] Susie Wood Cawthron [email protected] Mariska Wouters Ministry For The Environment [email protected] Elaine Wright Department Of Conservation [email protected] Janice Wright Office Of The Parliamentary Commissioner For The Environment [email protected] Sarah Yarrow Living Water (DOC-Fonterra) [email protected] Johanna Yletyinen University of Canterbury [email protected] Andrew Young CSIRO, National Research Collections Australia [email protected] Laura Young University of Canterbury [email protected] Melanya Yukhnevich Greater Wellington Regional Council [email protected]
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Discover the treasures and unique stories of New Zealand on six VenueNau mai, Floorplan haere mai! floors of fascinating displays – from Mäori and Pacific culture to WELCOME TO art and the natural environment.
Te Papa National Museum Tühuratia ngä taonga me ngä körero motuhake o tënei whenua 55 Cable Street, Wellington | Tel: +64 4 381 7000 ki ngä papa whakaaturanga e ono – mai i te ao Mäori, Te Moana- TEMUSEUM OF NEW PAPAZEALAND TE PAPA TONGAREWA nui-a-Kiwa ki ngä toi, puta noa ki te taiao.
Toilets Accessible toilets Parents’ Room Coats, Bags Money machine Telephone Food & Drink Red Gates bar Cafe Te Papa Store Discovery Centre Lift Stairs Wharepaku Wharepaku türu wïra Rüma Mätua Koti, Pëke Mïhini moni Wäea Kai Paparainu Këti Whero Kawhe Te Papa Toa Te Papa Tühura Ara rewa Ara piki
Quake Braker LEVEL Whakangäwari Rü (outside main entrance) Te Papa’s base isolators
Te Papa Cafe Bridge to Level 2 Te Papa Kai Bush City Te Papa Store, Level 1 1 Te Papa Toa Red Gates bar Paparainu Këti Whero
Cave
Fossil Dig
Red Gates bar
Te Papa Cafe Car park Te Papa Store, Level 1 Main Stairs
Entrance Taiwhanga
Quake Car park Braker entrance Foyer
Information Desk LEVEL Tëpu Pärongo Tickets for guided tours, children’s StoryPlace, and exhibitions with entry fees
Gallipoli: The scale of our war Bridge to Level 1 Karipori: Te pakanga nui Bush City 2 New Zealanders in the World War I campaign
Awesome Forces
Ngä Au Kukume NatureSpace Geological forces that shape Mountains our landscape to Sea Cave Mountains to Sea Mai i ngä Maunga ki te Moana Awesome Forces Plants and animals, marine mammal Fossil Dig skeletons, colossal squid Peter Snell: Bush City Medal-Winning Magic Information Desk Te Ngahere Te Papa Store, Native bushwalk outdoors Level 2 Wellington Foyer Gallipoli: Peter Snell: Medal-Winning Magic The scale of our war Te Kaha Whakawhiwhinga Mëtera ICON Function venue Kids | Tamariki ICON Soundings NatureSpace Theatre Te Papa Taiao Natural environment Discovery Centre StoryPlace Blue Whale StoryPlace Function venue Te Papa Püräkau Stories, songs, and play for children 5 years and under
Te Papa Store, Level 2 Te Papa Toa Pukapuka Bookshop See over for Levels 3, 4, 5, and 6 Natural environment & Gallipoli: The scale of our war
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Venue Floorplan
Te Papa National Museum 55 Cable Street, Wellington | Tel: +64 4 381 7000
Blood Earth Fire LEVEL Whängai Whenua Ahi Kä The transformation of Aotearoa New Zealand
BloodBlood Earth Earth And Fire Fire
Oceania Function venue 3 Te Huinga Centre Function venues Angus Room 1 Angus Room 2 Rangimarie Room 1 Rangimarie Room 2 Rangimarie Room 3 ANGUS ROOM People’s impact on the land
Mana Whenua Kids | Tamariki LEVEL The world of Ma�ori Te Marae PlaNet Pasifika Rongomaraeroa Te Papa Moana Pacific Discovery Centre Te Papa’s contemporary meeting place Treaty of Waitangi: Signs of a nation Te Huka ä Tai Ma�ori Discovery Centre Te Tiriti o Waitangi: Ngä tohu kotahi- 4 tanga Aotearoa New Zealand’s founding document Hinetitama Espresso Meeting room Tangata o le Moana Kawhe Kutëtë Te Marae Pacific peoples in New Zealand Te Huka Britten Bike Mana ä Tai Motupaika Hautipua Whenua
The record-breaking Britten V1000 motorbike At Espresso from 2 Feb 2017 Golden Days Britten Bike Mana Hokinga Mahara Whenua A junk shop that comes alive!
Passports Treaty of Waitangi: Uruwhenua Signs of a nation Immigrants’ stories Amokura Gallery The Mixing Room Passports Ngä Manene AMOKURA The Mixing Room Stories from young refugees in New Zealand GALLERY Phar Lap Tangata PlaNet Phar Lap o le Moana Pasifika Golden Hïnätore Days Learning Lab Social history – Mäori, Pacific, and other communities
LEVEL Viewing Terrace CORE FUNDERS: Tirohanga Step outside for a harbour panorama
Viewing 6 Terrace FREE WI-FI (Level 6) You are welcome to photograph and film your visit for personal use, unless signage says otherwise.
Share your experience #tepapa Tirohanga
Te Papa is smoke-free.
Food and drink are not allowed in the museum. PAGE 93 Open daily 10am–6pm Closed Christmas Day
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Venue Floorplan
Te Papa National Museum 55 Cable Street, Wellington | Tel: +64 4 381 7000
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GEORGE ST A Colonial Cottage Museum B National War Memorial & Carillon TE AHUMAIRANGI HILL C New Zealand Cricket Museum HOBSON STREET D Mount Victoria Lookout GRANT ROAD E Embassy Theatre F BATS Theatre
MURPHY STREET G St James Theatre TINAKORI ROAD H The Film Archive WELLINGTON URBAN MOTORWAY I Freyberg Swimming Pool 29 J Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa HAWKESTONE STREET K Circa Theatre
HARRIET ST FRAN WILDE WALKWAY L The Opera House Y A U M Wellington Town Hall PIPITEA STREET Q N O Michael Fowler Centre D N RN THO CRUISE TERMINAL WALKWAY O Department of Conservation Visitor Centre P City Gallery Wellington SACRED HEART ROMAN CATHOLIC Q Wellington Cable Car Museum CATHEDRAL A3 A2 A1 A4 R Shed 6 HILL STREET AITKEN STREET Z S TSB Bank Arena Beehive & Parliament MOLESWORTH STREET WATERLOO QUAY Buildings MULGRAVE ST T Capital E U Wellington Museum of City & Sea
TINAKORI ROAD KATE SHEPPARD PL V The New Zealand Portrait Gallery W Carter Observatory B O W X Old Government Buildings E N Y Reserve Bank Museum MAKARA PEAK STR EE CENTREPORT 15 MINS DRIVE T Z Archives New Zealand Y A1 Alexander Turnbull Library Zealandia ACCESS TO X A2 National Library 5 MINS DRIVE 28 TURNBULL BOTANIC GARDEN HOUSE Wellington Railway Station A3 Wellington Cathedral
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