News

WCG News Autumn 2024

Date: 3rd April 2024

Celebrating Shotover MU success with our community in 2024. A hard won milestone! Maps, images & full story in our Autumn newsetter…

Ben Lomond Project Update

Date: 7th December 2023

And that’s a wrap! A huge thank you to everyone who came out and volunteered with us! A huge thank…

WCG News Summer 2023

Date: 1st December 2023

Graeme Watson- WCG Executive Member, Keynote Speaker at WPN 2023 Conference. I spent 40 years farming thinking gorse was the…

Ben Lomond Project

Date: 9th October 2023

COME AND JOIN US FOR THIS SUPER-CHARGED EVENT  Dates: 1 – 9th November 2023   WCG Adopt a Plots &…

Media

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…

WCG Chainsaw Contepency Course

Date: 22nd June 2022

16 of our most committed volunteers endured a below zero morning up at Coronet Forest to complete their chainsaw competency…

Wilding Firewood

Date: 16th June 2022

You’d think all these wildings around the Whakatipu would have marketable timber, right? The answer… it’s complicated. Wildings are self…

Douglas Fir

Date: 8th June 2022

Our alps are starting to get a good dusting of snow, it is quite chilly outside but this weather is…

Pines and Fungi

Date: 1st June 2022

Today we cover the symbiotic relationship between fungi, land and plant but with a particular focus on pines. The internet…

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