Date: 29th July 2026
Wilding conifers are one of New Zealand’s most pressing environmental challenges — and managing them for the long term will take more than cutting down trees. At the Bioeconomy Science Institute, the Vive la Resistance…
Date: 15th June 2026
The South Marlborough Landscape Restoration Trust and the national advocacy group the Wilding Pine Network have welcomed the Government’s announcement of increased funding for New Zealand’s National Wilding Conifer Control Programme, describing it as…
Date: 2nd June 2026
As part of our Help Save campaign https://wildingpinenetwork.org.nz/helpsave/ we are going to the 2026 Mystery Creek field days. Come visit us from the 10th to 13th June at D70 – we are in the…
Date: 2nd June 2026
Congratulations to Nick Ledgard for a great video and huge thanks to Bill Morris from Frank Films and Radio New Zealand for promoting it. This great 10-minute video charts the march of contorta and…
Date: 2nd June 2026
The National Environmental Standards for Commercial Forestry (previously Plantation Forestry) provide nationally consistent regulations to manage the environmental effects of commercial forestry. You can read all about them on https://www.mpi.govt.nz/forestry/national-environmental-standards-commercial-forestry Changes come into effect this…
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…