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Supporting the management of wilding conifer infestations in New Zealand via advocacy, advice and action.

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Wilding Pine Network

The Wilding Pine Network is an Incorporated Society aiming to raise awareness of the wilding conifer issue, advocate for funding for wilding conifer control, and provide nation-wide coordination of and advice to community groups involved in active wilding conifer management.

Community Groups

Our community groups play an important part of wilding conifer control. These groups often organise volunteer days, and welcome your help. Being part of a group can be fun and rewarding. You don’t need any special knowledge, skills or tools, just an average level of fitness.

Webinar & Resources

The Wilding Pine Network facilitates information sharing through webinars, newsletters, reports, and workshops. Our Resources page has links to our webinars and publications, as well as details about latest research findings.

Let’s finish the job

The case for urgent investment for the wilding conifer crisis

The recent Government decision to cut funding to the National Wilding Conifer Control Programme by 75% (from $25m to $10m/annum) is effectively a death sentence for effective and sustainable wilding pine management in New Zealand.

Join our campaign to advocate for increased funding to the Wilding Conifer Control Programme and Let’s finish the job…

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News / Blog

Hiding in plain sight: Reinvasion risk from retained seed after dispersal events in introduced conifers

You have to have a grudging respect for Pinus contorta. It can pretty much grow anywhere and now scientists from Scion and Auckland Council have found that cones persist on trees even after mortality…

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Alt-F Reset: Examining the drivers of forestry in New Zealand

The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment has recently released the above report. The introduction to the report is below as is a link to the summary and the main report. Two main types of…

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Douglas fir – the next wave of wildings -Reporting the recent spread of wilding Douglas fir in the southern South Island

This is an opinion piece by Richard Bowman, past chair of the Wilding Pine Network. There is a new wave of wilding conifer spread that is now starting to become widely recognizedparticularly in the…

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