Nic Rawlence and Trevor Worthy

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NEW ZEALAND – 2008/12/07: New Zealand, North Island, Wellington, Te Papa (national Museum), Sign. (Photo by Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Myopic management decisions at Te Papa are bad news for New Zealand science

For the first time since the Victorian era, New Zealand does not have a tenured marine mollusc expert. Here's why that matters.

By Nic Rawlence and Trevor Worthy | 27th February, 2019