Mā Ngā Mātanga Māori

A website intended to help Māori land owners and managers find out more about the physical characteristics, constraints and potential of their whenua Māori.

Explore fundamental soil data, create custom soil maps and download soil factsheets in Te Reo for your land.

Use our guides to assess soil quality easily, quickly, reliably and cheaply on a paddock scale.

The MBIE-funded Soil Health and Resilience: Oneone Ora, Tangata Ora programme is developing both the science to understand soil resilience and soil health and the kaupapa Māori research to explore soil health from a Te Ao Māori/mātauranga Māori perspective.

The 'Oneone ora, tangata ora' programme represents a coming together of Māori philosophical, epistemological and kaupapa Māori based knowledge and perspectives with those of science.

A collection of publicly available shapefiles, intended as a place for interested landowners, community groups, and iwi to start visualising their current conservation efforts and map out where they can focus future endeavours to achieve conservation goals.