WildLab is passionate about developing the ways we connect with this country’s amazing nature. Our mission involves sharing best practice, and having an open source mindset to the work we develop, so that we can grow nature’s value across Aotearoa. This includes sharing our work and methods through news, articles, updates and ideas.
News, updates and ideas
Stuff columnist Graham McGregor’s focus is on business models and in particular on novel approaches to creating value in commercial sectors. In this column he dissects WildLab’s approach, and the way it combines commercial projects with academic research as something both refreshing and innovative. His column can be found here.
In January 2021 an article written by WildLab’s Mick Abbott and Cameron Boyle was awarded Landscape Research’s Best Article Prize for 2020. Landscape Research, published in the UK, is a leading academic journal in landscape architecture. The article is based on design work undertaken at Te Waihora / Lake Ellesmere as part of the replanting programme being undertaken there. The article, titled Ecological homelands: towards a counter-ontopology of landscape design, can be found here.
In August 2019 Mick was invited to speak at EDS’s Rethinking Landscape in Aotearoa Conference. His presentation was on ‘Designing Landscapes for New Zealand’s Future’ and can be viewed on Vimeo.
Sometime back Kennedy and Mick went searching out Alphonse Barrington’s route through the Red Hills, close to the Olivines. As part of the journey Kennedy recorded the unfolding conversation about the possibility this country’s distinctive nature could offer us, here in Aotearoa New Zealand. Read more here.
In March 2021 Pure Advantage and Tane’s Tree Trust launched the O Tātou Ngāhere Our Forest Campaign. Check out the inspiring video and series of articles including Dame Anne Salmond, Sir Stephen Tindall and Lou Sanson here. Mick Abbott also contributed – check out his article ‘Our Place in the Forest’ here.
Articles
Research and reports
Abbott, M., K. Blackburne, M. Bowie, J. Bowring, N. Dickinson, B. Dollery, & C. Murphy, 2015. A part of our nature: building social and economic value through ecological restoration. NZ Ecological Society Conference, November 17-19, Christchurch.
Boyer S., Abbott M., Bowie M.H.,Dickinson N.M., Hahner J. Rhodes S.H., Sharp D., Smith C.M., 2014. The Punakaiki Living Lab a case study for a consultative and multidisciplinary approach in restoring a mining closure site, West Coast, New Zealand. Society for Ecological Restoration Australasia Meeting (SERA) in Nouméa, New Caledonia.
S., Verghese, K., Crossin, E., Lockrey, S. & Abbott, M., 2013. LCA in the last frontier: Quantifying the environmental impacts and environmental impact reduction strategy. In Strategic Science in Antarctica, a joint Australian and New Zealand conference, Hobart, Australia, 24 – 26 June.
Department of Conservation., 2012. Further information about wilderness protection in Antarctica and use of tools in the Protocol. Article prepared for New Zealand and Netherlands Government to submit at the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting XXXV.
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