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Will provide funding, resources, and expertise to whānau-led expeditions to locate and sample taonga species to be included in a regional biobank located within the ngai Tahu takiwā (domain).
The Ngāi Tahu Research Centre has entered into a strategic partnership with de-extinction company, Colossal Biosciences, and Sir Peter Jackson, to resurrect the South Island Giant Moa and other Taonga ...
Colossal Biosciences, together with Maori partners, has revealed intentions to functionally bring back the moa – a massive, flightless bird that disappeared within 150 years after humans arrived in ...
A groundbreaking new collaboration is working to resurrect one of New Zealand’s most enigmatic lost species, the South Island ...
The first known fossils of human ancestors, those of Neanderthals, were unearthed in the early 19th century, and decades passed before naturalists understood what they were looking at.
Because I know there are individual Ngai Tahu runanga who are against de-extinction. The iwi at the top of the South Island are against the de-extinction of the giant moa (or any moa), which also ...
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The collaboration also includes the New Zealand-based Ngai Tahu Research Centre. “The movies are my day job, and the moa are my fun thing I do,” said Jackson.