2 x Articles - Ecosystem Management, Climate Change

[Kiwi Frontline]

EMPOWERING MĀORI TO IMPROVE ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT IN AOTEAROA

Sustainable Seas researchers have outlined ways to enable and empower Māori to lead the sustainable management of resources in Aotearoa New Zealand.

The 2018 report, written by Dr Robert Joseph and his team from the University of Waikato, compares how tikanga Māori and Western legal systems are applied to environmental management. The report highlights the need for more inclusive and better resource management policies, practices and laws that enable the accurate application of tikanga and mātauranga Māori to the governance and management of the country’s land-based and marine ecosystems......

sustainableseaschallenge.co.nz/news-updates/empowering-maori-improve-ecosystem-management-aotearoa

[Kiwi Frontline]

CLIMATE CHANGE SCIENTISTS LOOK TO MĀORI AND OTHER INDIGENOUS PEOPLE FOR ANSWERS

In the Māoriland Hub in Ōtaki, north of Wellington, an exhibition details how bad climate change will get for locals in the Kāpiti Horowhenua region, where the frequency of heavy rainfall, flooding, erosion and landslides is already on the rise.

Mātauranga is the body of traditional and contemporary knowledge about the world – both physical and spiritual – held by Māori. It is also the process by which information is observed, tested, interpreted, built upon and handed down. It is inseparable from Māori culture, values and beliefs. Māori consider themselves part of nature and within it, and mātauranga reflects this......

www.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/110587713/climate-change-scientists-look-to-mori-and-other-indigenous-people-for-answers