Story: Weeds of the bush

More links and websites

• Department of Conservation strategic plan for managing invasive weeds

  Space Invaders: This 1998 document, revised in 2000, describes the goal, objectives, general principles and means by which weeds are controlled (PDF, 760 KB.

• Invasive weeds programme

  On the Landcare Research site, this page has information and guidelines on weed control, species details and weed ecology.

• Weedbusters

  Weedbusters is an education programme that aims to reduce the threat of weeds to New Zealand's environment.

• Weeds

  Department of Conservation information on weeds and their control.

More suggestions and sources

• Esler, Alan E. Naturalisation of plants in urban Auckland. Wellington: DSIR, 1988.
• Esler, Alan E. Wild plants in Auckland. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2004.
• Owen, S. J. Ecological weeds on conservation department land in New Zealand: a database. Wellington: Department of Conservation, 1996.
• Plant me instead: plants to use in place of common and invasive environmental weeds in the lower North Island. Wellington: Dept. of Conservation, Wellington Conservancy, 2005.
• Roy, Bruce, and others. An illustrated guide to common weeds of New Zealand. 2nd ed. Lincoln: New Zealand Plant Protection Society, 2004.
• Thompson, G. M. The naturalisation of animals and plants in New Zealand. London: Cambridge University Press, 1922.