News

Expanding our reach

Date: 7th February 2023

Welcome to 2023. We hope you had some time to refresh and revive over the weird and wonderful weather had by many over Xmas and New Year. The world of wildings has had a…

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Good Nature, Bad Nature

Date: 19th December 2022

The University of Otago is embarking on a really interesting project exploring the current and future management of invasive species, and people’s values associated with contentious species. Their study will help understand how attitudes…

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Carbon forestry – what’s it all about?

Date: 16th December 2022

This is a topic regularly in the media and a land use that is gaining in popularity around New Zealand. Carbon forestry or carbon farming as it is also called is the planting of…

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Wilding conifers on the ground will not wait for funding to catch up

Date: 9th December 2022

The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment released a report in October 2022 – entitled Environmental reporting, research and investment – Do we know if we’re making a difference? It’s a big read but pages…

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The fragility of our alpine ecosystems and hill tops

Date: 2nd December 2022

A Recent visit to Southland reminded me about the beauty and vulnerability of our alpine ecosystems which are dominated by small natives -plants and animals especially skinks. Wilding pines and conifers decimate and completely…

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Sustaining the Gains in the media

Date: 1st December 2022

As you know we are building our profile in the media with our campaign to retain sufficient funding for the national programme. It is critical that this resourcing is maintained at a level which…

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Hybrid tree wrongly sold as sterile

Date: 29th November 2022

A recent article in Friday Offcuts, the weekly electronic newsletter for Australasian Forest products companies gives a warning about marketing a product based on something it is not. Pinus radiata x attenuata hybrid has…

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True Story: Wilding pines strangle Kiwi landscapes, but a resistance fights back

Date: 25th November 2022

Check out a great story featuring Steve Palmer from ECAN on Episode 2 on Stuff’s new podcast True Story delves into a curious tale of evil pine trees, shy wallabies, and more. It’s entertaining,…

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Funding opportunities open… get in quick!

Date: 22nd November 2022

Two funds are now open for applications. We encourage you to get cracking with applications. If you need help, please let Jo know jo@wildingpinenetwork.org.nz – part of WPN’s job is to help with these…

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The power of people propagating plants….

Date: 1st November 2022

I recently had the pleasure of going to a propagation workshop held by Wilding Free MacKenzie. Propagation of native species that is – not those marching green trees we saw extending right up to…

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