News

WCG News Summer 2025

Date: 11th December 2025

Grant Hensman speech to the new Upper Clutha Wilding Tree Group “…I would ask you to picture what the District…

Your invitation

Date: 20th August 2025

WCG Annual Community Reporting Night 2025 – Monday 15 September 2025, 5.30pm Memorial Centre, CBD

WCG News Autumn 2025

Date: 1st May 2025

Image: Wye Creek Catchment. A high value conservation area.
Meet Jack Cocks at Mt Nicholas Station, our new WCG Project Manager, Hamish Hutton, view awesome Autumn images and find out about both our commercial and volunteer conservation work – targeting wilding pines.

WCG News Summer 2024

Date: 5th December 2024

Image: Difficult Pinus mugo infestation spreading high above beautiful Gibbston Valley, Muddy Creek. Meet 2 new WCG Executive Members. Fill out a quick survey & much more…

Media

New Zealands future tourists – what to expect!!

Date: 19th November 2025

Does this scene represent what will meet trampers in the future?

WCG Reclaiming Our Biodiversity & Natural Landscapes

Date: 19th July 2023

An overview of the huge task of wilding pine control work that the Whakatipu Wilding Control Group and their partners…

Dick Hubbard on wilding pines

Date: 2nd March 2023

From grains to pines. Find out how New Zealand’s cereal man ‘Dick Hubbard’ latched onto the wilding pine problem. Dick…

FENZ & WCG Fire Risk

Date: 26th January 2023

Are wilding pines a fire hazard? We caught up with Mark Mawhinney, Risk Reduction Advisor for Fire and Emergency NZ…

Map Chat with Will McBeth

Date: 16th November 2022

Ever wonder who does the intricate colourful maps for our upcoming wilding work? That would be, Will McBeth. The DOC…

Wilding control work on Mount Dewar

Date: 11th October 2022

First helicopters and now Buggies! We sure know how to make our wilding work adventurous. In conjunction with Treespace, WCG…

Shelter Belt Species

Date: 29th July 2022

Pines are often used as shelter belts for privacy, to block prevailing winds and shelter animals in paddocks. They have…

Wilding Pine Removal – Kelvin Heights

Date: 21st July 2022

Let’s talk about the proposed tree removal in Kelvin Heights. WCG is with Queenstown Lakes District Council and Whakatipu Reforestation…

Coronet Peak Community Planting Project

Date: 15th July 2022

A snapshot of the Coronet Peak Community Planting Project discussions, featuring Jana Davis from Te Tapu o Tane and Will…

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