Speaking at the national Wilding Pine Conference in Southland today, Biosecurity Minister Andrew Hoggard has announced a new $1 million community funding programme to back grassroots wilding pine control.<\/p>\n
The fund, running over two years, will be available from the National Wilding Conifer Control Programme to support community-led control projects. It comes on top of $109 million being invested over the next three years to ramp up control work nationally and get ahead of the spread.<\/p>\n
“Wilding pines are a scourge on the productive heart of rural New Zealand, and there are plenty of people as passionate as I am about getting rid of them.”<\/p>\n
“Volunteers, landowners and community groups, with help from contractors and councils, are already making enormous progress to tackle infestations. This initiative is about backing those local efforts.”<\/p>\n
Wilding pines threaten productive farmland, water supplies in sensitive catchments, native biodiversity, and increase the risk of wildfires.<\/p>\n
“With a problem as big as wilding pines, national coordination is essential, but I also believe in letting local people take charge of local issues,” Mr Hoggard says.<\/p>\n
Expressions of interest in the new community funding programme are expected to open later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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