Date: 22nd March 2025
Our 2025 conference will be in Twizel at the Events Centre. The theme will be around Innovation and how we manage land after wildings have been removed. Once we have a draft programme we…
Date: 5th February 2025
A recent timely find from one of our tireless campaigners having a clean out of his mother’s treasures was an article from May 1982 in The Press acknowledging the success of high-country forestry but…
Date: 14th January 2025
The Government is looking for partners to plant trees on Crown-owned land that has low conservation and farming value. The intended purpose is that it will contribute to climate change targets, spur economic growth…
Date: 14th January 2025
The Upper Clutha Wilding Tree Group (UCWTG) are a community-led, not-for-profit organisation with the goal of protecting the outstanding natural landscapes and indigenous biodiversity of the Upper Clutha region from the threat of key…
Date: 9th December 2024
The success of the national collaboration that is the wilding pine management network is based on the “carrot approach” – good relationships where landowners, agencies and communities agree that wilding pine control is necessary,…
Date: 13th November 2024
A great article published recently in Country Wide magazine celebrated how great the rural community are at stepping up and helping out well beyond the farm gate. Thake very much to Jo Grigg, a…
Date: 13th November 2024
The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) has completed a review of the Biosecurity Act 1993. They have a developed a range of proposals to update and modernise the Act. Submissions from stakeholders are essential…
Date: 13th November 2024
Miles Anderson, National MP for Waitaki is a tireless campaigner for wilding pine management. He has put a bill in the “tin”. Every bill is given a housie token, and that token goes into…
Date: 13th November 2024
Scion and Manaaki Whenua-Landcare Research are conducting a survey to understand how perceptions of wilding conifers differ across regions of Aotearoa New Zealand, and between professions and stakeholders. They are also interested in understanding how these…
Date: 11th September 2024
The enemy of my enemy…. Invasive mammals as seed predators of wilding conifers. Tom Carlin from Scion recently completed our second webinar with a great presentation. You can watch this on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1cizVVDmoc Tom along…