Acknowledgements

In 1998 the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology accorded the Allan Herbarium (CHR), the International Collection of Microorganisms from Plants (ICMP), Te Kohinga Harakeke o Aotearoa – National New Zealand Flax Collection (FLAX), the New Zealand Arthropod Collection (NZAC) and the New Zealand Fungarium - Te Kohinga Hekaheka o Aotearoa (PDD) the status of Nationally Significant Collections and Databases. Upkeep and maintenance is supported by Strategic Science Investment Fund funding from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s Science and Innovation Group (MBIE).

Additional funding for the digitisation of specimen records has been provided by the:

• Terrestrial and Freshwater Biodiversity Information System (TFBIS) Programme, Department of Conservation
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade

We would like to thank users of the site who provide feedback on the data — these contributions help us to improve the quality of the data.

Our use of external initiatives

We use the Local Contexts framework for grounding indigenous rights. We have added notices to all our holdings and created collection-wide projects within Local Contexts. We have created specific Local Contexts projects in partnership with some iwi for material collected in their rohe.

Native Lands helps us to map material globally to terrorities of indigenous communities.