Date: 2nd February 2026
Following on from our very successful 2025 conference for your viewing pleasure or perhaps displeasure please see the following videos with Mackenzie landowners and contractors: Visual, concise and factual personalizing the challenge and scale…
Date: 18th December 2025
History shows that large scale, long term national biosecurity programmes need to be adequately and consistently resourced over the full extent of their lives. Failure to complete these programmes in the most cost effective…
Date: 18th December 2025
A recent email from Nick Ledgard highlighted the above and the seriousness of a delay in control due to insufficient funding to act proactively on all fronts. The graph below shows how just a…
Date: 18th December 2025
The media savvy team at Federated Farmers have taken a Xmas classic song – The 12 days of Xmas and given it a kiwi biosecurity twist. Day 5 is wilding pines. Pine trees and…
Date: 18th December 2025
Planted in the right place, introduced conifer trees can provide timber, store carbon, decrease erosion, filter soil nutrients, improve water quality, and provide shelter for stock. However, wilding pine trees are a major weed…
Date: 18th November 2025
Thanks to all those who came to the 2025 conference in Twizel. Delegates, sponsors, local suppliers all made it a memorable experience over 3 days enhanced by some great field trips and demonstrations. Follow…
Date: 18th November 2025
Recently the South Marlborough Landscape Restoration Trust hosted Minister Potaka (Conservation Minister) and Stuart Smith (MP for Kaikoura) and took them for a trip up into the Branch Leatham catchment. They bravely took up…
Date: 23rd July 2025
Listen to a great interview on Rex with Johnny Oswald, chair of the South Marlborough Landscape Restoration Trust a long-time wilding pine campaigner and advocate. Molesworth station: Jo Ritchie The interview focuses on the…
Date: 10th July 2025
14-16 October 2025 – Twizel Events Centre A warm welcome is extended to all our wilding whanau to extend the 2025 conference which is shaping up to be a cracker. We have been very…
Date: 22nd May 2025
The Central Otago Wilding Group has recently received a funding boost totaling $150K from the Otago Regional Council for the project of transitioning contorta shelterbelts to native plants shelter in the Styx valley (upper…