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…
Date: 18th May 2025
I have been asked a couple of times in the last few months about the above. People are interested as they consider whether to poison trees standing or fell them. Most of the time…
Date: 18th May 2025
dwarf mistletoes (Genus Arceuthobium Bieb.) on a lodgepole (P. contorta) pine Waves of wilding conifers are currently moving across the New Zealand landscape and there seem to be few long-term options available to control…
Date: 16th May 2025
A recent survey by the South Marlborough Landscape Restoration Trust evidences the relentless spread of wilding pines and conifers and the heights they will grow at. During April 2025 control work new contorta sites…