WAKATIPU WILDING CONIFER CONTROL GROUP
Mar 5, 2017
The Wakatipu Wilding Conifer Control Group (WCG), will be attending the March GCA meeting and would like to speak to the Glenorchy Community about opportunities to remove wilding conifers before they become a threat to vulnerable land.
While Glenorchy do not have many wilding conifers, there are a couple of small hot spots and there is an opportunity to work with landowners to remove these threatening wilding trees before they spread further.
The National Wilding Conifer Management Strategy led to $16 million of new national operating funds being made available in the 2016 Budget to tackle wilding conifers in New Zealand. Approximately $2.6 million of this funding has been allocated to the Wakatipu over the next four years, some of this funding has been allocated to Glenorchy.
The WCG – The Wakatipu Wilding Conifer Control Group Inc (WCG) is a community, not-for-profit organisation created in April 2009. We are focused on protecting biodiversity and the remarkable landscape of the Wakatipu for the benefit of residents, users, tourists and particularly, future generations. The WCG aim is to control wilding trees. Queenstown is renowned worldwide for its stunning and iconic landscapes, but they are under threat from wilding trees. Wilding conifers threaten and replace native beech forests and tussock.
http://www.wakatipuwilding.co.nz/
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