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News Article: DNA analysis confirms species: Whale found at Te Kaha unusually ‘rare’

ByRob Elshire

“We had a kōrero about the rarity of Wharekura and about how us taking her to be studied benefits not only marine science and everybody in Aotearoa, but us as a people, too, so we can understand more about what’s happening here in our own water. Having a taonga like Wharekura washed up so young is massive for us.”

Michaela Insley

This story demonstrates a wonderful collaboration between a Māori ecological restoration project and Massey University researchers. Full story here.

Image credit: Allen Lyu (CC BY-NC).

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Molecular Ecology Resources Special Issue

ByRob Elshire

This Special Issue: skúkum tílixam: Uniting to Support Indigenous Contributions to Molecular Ecology was co-edited by GFANZ council alumna Dr. Alana Alexander. There are great research articles, thoughtful insights, and useful resources. Most of the articles are open access, so anyone can read them. Excellent issue highlighting the work of  Indigenous researchers in molecular ecology.

News Article: Patently insufficient: a new intellectual property treaty does little to protect Māori traditional knowledge

News Article: Patently insufficient: a new intellectual property treaty does little to protect Māori traditional knowledge

ByRob Elshire

However, the new agreement is unlikely to lead to major changes to New Zealand law, or improve the rights of Māori to own or control their intellectual property and taonga (treasured possessions). Given the well-documented misappropriation of Māori knowledge and taonga, more substantive protections are still needed. Full Article

Phylogenetic tree of rail lineages. This is from the paper.

Research Paper: De-novo assembly of four rail (Aves: Rallidae) genomes: A resource for comparative genomics

ByRob Elshire

Last month, Julien Gaspar, Steve A. Trewick, and Gillian C. Gibb published the paper De-novo assembly of four rail (Aves: Rallidae) genomes: A resource for comparative genomics. It is open access for everyone to read. The publishing of this work is a milestone for the GFANZ cloud bioinformatics platform project. By using the GFANZ infrastructure,…