Environment

Eliminating wilding pines in the Marlborough Sounds

13:30 pm on 20 September 2018

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Ten years ago, many of the hills in the Marlborough sounds were riddled with wilding pines.

But now the native bush has started to flourish, thanks to painstaking work by the Marlborough Sounds Restoration Trust, which has been killing off the wilding pines, one by one.

The  Marlborough Sounds Restoration Trust project manager Andrew Macalister tells us how they've managed it.