Eliminating wilding pines in the Marlborough Sounds

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.

Dead wilding pines at Dieffenbach Point

Before and after at Arapawa Island

Felling vs Poisoning

Dead wilding pines in the sounds

Poisoning a wilding pine

How the sounds should look

the reality of many hillsides in the Sounds

Native bush regenerating amongst the dead pines