Events & Launches

Sanma is a province of Vanuatu which includes the second largest city in Vanuatu, Luganville and the islands of Malo and Espiritu Santo. In this video, Peter Napwatt from the Vanuatu Agricultural College discusses with Ranga Tatenga how climate change is impacting on cocoa crops and strategies for adapting to these changes.

Torba is the northernmost province of Vanuatu that includes the Banks Islands and Torres Islands. In this video climate change scientist Dr Jim Salinger and farmers from Torba interview coconut farmer Kevin Henderson on how changes in weather patterns are affecting his crops.

These video clips were recorderd using Flip Videos and edited on I Movie for an English speaking audience.

This seminar, co-hosted by Te Puna Wānanga and Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, featured international speakers Professor Karina Walters and Dr Eduardo Duran. Dr Duran, a leading expert on clinical and research work dealing with the impacts of historical trauma, talked about his experiences as a practicing clinical psychologist in Indian country for several decades.

This seminar, co-hosted by Te Puna Wānanga and Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, featured international speakers Professor Karina Walters and Dr Eduardo Duran.

Recipients of 2012 National Māori Academic Excellence Awards talk about some of their research experiences. Video produced by Nadia Jones and Melanie Cheung. Editing and illustrations provided by Dan Mace from remote|limited.

The 5 October 2011 grounding of the MV Rena on Otaiti was acknowledged as the worst environmental disaster in New Zealand’s history. The grounding and subsequent pollution had significant environmental impacts that were experienced in anthropogenic terms as impacts upon social, economic, and cultural well-being.