Landcare Research New Zealand

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Landcare Research New Zealand Limited
( Landcare Research )
Maori: Manaaki Whenua

logo
legal form Limited
founding July 1, 1992
Seat New ZealandNew Zealand Lincoln , New Zealand
management Richard Gordon , CEO
Number of employees 332 permanent employees,
60 associated employees in 2017
sales NZ $ 65.036 million (2017)
Branch Environmental research
Website www.landcareresearch.co.nz

The Landcare Research Limited , in brief Landcare Research called, is one of eight New Zealand Crown Research Institute , based in the city of Lincoln , near Christchurch .

task

The main task of Landcare Research is to conduct environmental research . The institute has specialized in the sustainability management of land resources, with a more efficient use of resources while protecting nature and maintaining and increasing biodiversity .

The research is roughly divided into two branches. The biological systems structure includes the areas of biodiversity & species protection , biosystematics , ecosystem processes , pest control technologies , wildlife ecology and epidemiology , while the environment & society structure includes the areas of global change processes, sustainability & society , soils & landscapes and the area Are subordinate to IT .

As with all state institutions and state-owned companies, Landcare Research has a Maori name. In short, Manaaki Whenua means something like "keep the land".

Seat and locations

The company's headquarters are in Lincoln . Additional offices and research facilities are located across the country from north to south in the cities of Auckland , Hamilton , Gisborne , Hastings , Palmerston North , Wellington , Nelson , Dunedin and Alexandra .

history

In the 1980s, the New Zealand government began to restructure research and science . In 1989, the Ministry of Research, Science and Technology was created for this purpose with the aim of advising the government, preparing decision-making processes, prioritizing the allocation of funds and introducing success monitoring. But that was not all, the aim was to create different institutes for the most diverse areas of activity, which would operate independently and responsibly under government supervision and which would then, under these conditions, carry out public and private-sector contracts with their own rules and guidelines.

With the Crown Research Institutes Act 1992 , ten Crown Research Institutes were founded for this purpose, eight of which still exist today. Landcare Research is one of them.

With the Companies Act 1993 , all institutions were to a limited liability company ( Limited converted). Like all other Crown Research Institutes , Landcare Research is now subordinate to the Crown Company Unit (controlling and advisory department) of the Ministry of Finance and the responsible Minister for Research, Science and Technology. Both ministers responsible are registered as shareholders of the eight Crown Research Institutes .

Data collections

Landcare Research has collections of a wide variety of organisms . The focus here is on those species that represent a national value for New Zealand. The following are:

  • Allan Herbarium (CHR) , with 276,200 database entries and 276,201 copies ( October 2018 ), the largest New Zealand collection of systematically created data on plants and parts of plants in New Zealand regions and the South Pacific.
  • International Collection Of Micro-organisms (ICMP) , with 21,598 database entries ( October 2018 ), an important international collection of flora and fauna from New Zealand and the South Pacific.
  • National New Zealand Flax Collection (FLAX) , with 84 database entries ( October 2018 ), a collection of New Zealand flax with its 160 different species of origin.
  • New Zealand Arthropod Collection (NZAC) , with 120,528 database entries and 141,565 copies ( October 2018 ), the largest collection ofterrestrialinvertebrates from New Zealand and the South Pacific.
  • New Zealand Fungal and Plant Disease Collection (PDD) , with 101,203 database entries and 101,219 copies ( October 2018 ), the largest fungal herbarium in New Zealand with specimens from New Zealand and other Pacific countries.

Detailed information can be found on the Institute's Systematics Collections Data (SCD) website.

literature

  • Annual Report 17 - Part 1 - Our Story, Our Ambitions, Our Strategic Focus . Landcare Research New Zealand Limited , 2017, ISSN  1172-7942 (English, online [PDF; 4.7 MB ; accessed on October 4, 2018]).
  • Annual Report 17 - Part 2 - Disclosures & Financials . Landcare Research New Zealand Limited , 2017, ISSN  1172-7942 (English, online [PDF; 2.4 MB ; accessed on October 4, 2018]).

Web links

  • Homepage . Landcare Research New Zealand Limited,accessed October 4, 2018.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Our Senior Managers . Landcare Research New Zealand Limited , accessed October 4, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b Annual Report 17 - Part 1 . 2017, p.  12 .
  3. ↑ Annual Report 17 - Part 2 . 2017, p.  21 .
  4. ↑ a b Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd (Landcare Research) . Crown Company Monitor Advisory Unit (ccmau) , archived from the original on May 1, 2009 ; Retrieved on September 23, 2012 (English, original website no longer available).
  5. ↑ Manaaki Whenua : the meaning and ethos . Landcare Research New Zealand Limited , accessed January 19, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Science reforms 1989-1996 . Ministry for the Environment , archived from the original on October 16, 2008 ; accessed on October 4, 2018 (English, original website no longer available).
  7. ^ Cabinet Office - Research, Science and Technology . Department of Primeminister and Cabinet , archived from the original on May 26, 2010 ; accessed on September 23, 2012 (English, original website no longer available).
  8. ↑ Systematics Collections Data . Landcare Research New Zealand Limited , accessed October 4, 2018 .