New Zealand faces increasing pressure on our biosecurity systems and needs science to deliver smarter approaches for managing risk. New Zealand’s Biological Heritage National Science Challenge is a major initiative that is seeking to deliver science solutions for biodiversity and biosecurity.

The Challenge is based around seven strategic outcomes for which a co-design process is currently being undertaken with stakeholders to guide research priorities, through a series of workshops.

KVH is well represented in this process providing stakeholder input into three of these Strategic Outcomes; emerging risks, border tools and technologies, and post-border tools and technologies.