More links and websites
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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.
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Invasive weeds programme
On the Landcare Research site, this page has information and guidelines on weed control, species details and weed ecology.
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Weedbusters
Weedbusters is an education programme that aims to reduce the threat of weeds to New Zealand's environment.
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Weeds
Department of Conservation information on weeds and their control.
More suggestions and sources
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Esler, Alan E. Naturalisation of plants in urban Auckland. Wellington: DSIR, 1988.
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Esler, Alan E. Wild plants in Auckland. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2004.
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Owen, S. J. Ecological weeds on conservation department land in New Zealand: a database. Wellington: Department of Conservation, 1996.
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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.
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Roy, Bruce, and others. An illustrated guide to common weeds of New Zealand. 2nd ed. Lincoln: New Zealand Plant Protection Society, 2004.
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Thompson, G. M. The naturalisation of animals and plants in New Zealand. London: Cambridge University Press, 1922.