The Moana Project investigates larval dispersal of kūtai (green-lipped mussel). The Moana Project is a five-year Endeavour Fund ocean research initiative funded by The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) and its aim is to improve our understanding of…
Nurturing and protecting the whenua is a responsibility many New Zealanders can relate to, particularly with increasing awareness of New Zealand’s Predator Free 2050 goal. However, the challenge we all share now is how to offer our moana that same…
A familiar feature of The Noises and wider Hauraki Gulf is colonies of pied shags kāruhiruhi nesting in trees, on coastal cliffs or islands. Getting close up to these colonies reveals the mauri (life force) with birds leaving from or…