Date: 6th October 2023
The National Environmental Standards for Commercial Forestry (NES-CF), formerly the National Environmental Standard for Plantation Forestry (NES-PF), are for managing the environmental effects of plantation and exotic continuous-cover forestry (sometimes called carbon forestry). A…
Date: 6th October 2023
A big thanks to Lauren Prebble from Marketellingenz in Cromwell who manages our social media. She canvassed all the political parties to get their position on wilding pines. Hirakimata – Mount Hobson summit looking…
Date: 2nd October 2023
Smoke drifting across Lake Pukaki from the large blaze at Pukaki Downs (in mid-September). Photo: RNZ / Nathan McKinnon Listen to a good interview from 27th September with Kathryn Ryan from RNZ – Clint Miles from…
Date: 22nd September 2023
Otago Regional Council chairwoman Gretchen Robertson has written an opinion piece in the Otago Daily Times and describes wilding pines around Central Otago as ticking biological timebomb. Her piece is reproduced below or read it direct in…
Date: 18th September 2023
A really good interview with Steve Satterthwaite from Muller station in Marlborough. https://www.rexonline.co.nz/home/podcasts.html. Scroll down and look for this podcast: Steve talks about his perspective as a large high-country landowner but also as a…
Date: 14th September 2023
Biological invasions cost the global community an estimated USD$423 billion in 2019, and those costs have quadrupled every decade since 1970. The Assessment Report on Invasive Alien Species and their Control https://www.ipbes.net/IASmediarelease is a new…
Date: 13th September 2023
The damaging consequences of cutting funding for environmental regeneration. Pioneering wilding pines on the march across iconic Central Otago landscape Alexa Forbes, an Otago Regional Councillor has written a thought-provoking story on her blog…
Date: 6th September 2023
Please find below a great article that featured in the Sunday Star Times on 3rd September and also in the Press. We are very grateful to Andrea Vance for a thorough story and to…
Date: 2nd September 2023
Pete Oswald, Project Manager for the Central Otago Wilding Conifer Group (https://www.centralwildingconifers.co.nz/about) did a late-night interview on Radio New Zealand. It’s a great interview as it is both a personal and professional perspective on…
Date: 2nd September 2023
A great story on Radio New Zealand recently featuring Grahame Sydney who is a champion of the Central Otago Wilding Conifer Group. The story is about declining funding for the environment and its effects…