Sharing knowledge with Māori communities and empowering Māori business with the latest science.
Te Kūwaha - Māori Environmental Research
Sharing knowledge with Māori communities and empowering Māori business with the latest science.
We are NIWA, Taihoro Nukurangi
Te Kūwaha, NIWA’s National Centre for Māori Environmental Research is a dedicated Māori research team, with a vision to work in partnership with others to enable complementary knowledge systems to support kaitiakitanga and provide environmental research excellence that enhances the social, environmental and economic aspirations of whānau, hapū and iwi, Maori communities and Maori business.
Te Kūwaha Graduate Programme: Applications now open
NIWA's Te Kūwaha Graduate Internship Programme has been established to help address the growing need for scientific skills combined with capability in mātauranga Māori, while supporting and creating visible pathways for the next generation of Māori researchers.
Meet the team
Te Kūwaha is partnering with whānau, hapū and iwi across Aotearoa to undertake the fundamental research required by Māori to inform their unique responsibilities as kaitiaki.
Cultural Keystone Species 2020
A four-year research programme focused on the co-management and restoration of our freshwater taonga species wraps up this year.
Building pathways
28 July 2020
It has been a whirlwind first six months for Ngāpera Keegan and Tekiteora Rolleston-Gabel, the first two young researchers in NIWA’s newly established Māori Graduate Internship Programme.
Taonga species show vulnerability to climate change
15 September 2020
A new study has identified seven freshwater species native to Aotearoa-New Zealand that will likely be highly or very highly vulnerable to climate change.
Taonga Species Series
NIWA, through the MBIE-funded Cultural Keystone Species programme (2016-2020), have developed a series of iwi engagement booklets sharing science knowledge to support species management strategy
Bringing together Maori and western knowledge systems
Māori worldviews are based on centuries of observation and anticipation of their physical and social environment and can be used to inform a wide variety of environmental research.
