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Source: Landcare Research – Press Release/Statement:
Headline: New Zealand’s most devastating predators’ genomes sequenced. DNA codes broken for stoat and ship rat
The DNA secrets of the Predator Free 2050 programme’s most wanted species have been revealed.
The complete genome of the stoat is now available to researchers on the US-based National Center
for Biotechnology Information genome database, hard on the heels of the ship rat genome.
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Source: Landcare Research – Press Release/Statement:
Headline: How many moa?
Flightless birds were once the largest and heaviest terrestrial fauna on many archipelagos around the world – including the nine species of moa in New Zealand.
Dave Latham and colleagues used population data from living species of flightless birds to estimate how many moa these islands might have once supported.
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Source: Landcare Research – Press Release/Statement:
Headline: The Great Weeds Hunt Aotearoa
New Zealand is one of the weediest countries in the world, with the number of weed species now outnumbering our native flora.
These invasive weeds are among the greatest environmental threats to our parks, wetlands, reserves, coasts, bush remnants, and alpine areas.
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Source: Landcare Research – Press Release/Statement:
Headline: Protecting our history with harakeke – the National New Zealand Flax Collection
Manaaki Whenua is kaitiaki (guardian) of the National New Zealand Flax Collection. The collection is made up of over 300 plants. The five main collections include weaving varieties, ornamental garden plants, historical plants from the early flax industry, plants taken to offshore islands by both Māori and Pākehā, and a collection of plants representing what grows in the wild.
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Source: Landcare Research – Press Release/Statement:
Headline: Jewelled geckos released in Otago
The Central Otago Ecological Trust recently released Jewelled geckos into a 14-ha predator-proof fence near Alexandra. This species has been extinct from Central Otago for many decades, so this translocation represents a significant step in restoring lost lizard communities in this region.
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