New Zealand forests, which increased in size markedly after 1990, began shrinking in recent years, partly due to dairy conversions. In addition, many …
Category: NZ Forestry
Project explores bond to fund new permanent native forests
Hall was the lead author of Pure Advantage’s 2016 report “Our Forest Future”, which argued that New Zealand needed to plant around 1.3 million new …
Jacinda Ardern’s coalition government to bring back the forestry service
It was once of our biggest employers. Now the incoming coalition government is to recreate the New Zealand forestry service. And it’s understood the …
Unified approach to forestry needed
The priority put on new forest plantings by New Zealand First entering the coalition presents an enormous challenge to the new Government and …
Labour cabinet – the who, not the what
That leaves four NZ First cabinet members yet to be named and three … Labour has a position that we would locate the forestry service in Rotorua, …
Former Forest Service workers gather for reunion on West Coast
The New Zealand Forest Service was created in 1919 to control the cutting of indigenous forests and establish forest plantation as an alternative …
Valuable years lost for forestry
The Forest Owners Association says the priority put on new forest plantings by New Zealand First entering the coalition presents an enormous …
Welcome to our world, New Zealand, you’re running late
Chinese demand for NZ forestry products (10 per cent of all China’s timber and forestry imports) and meat (six per cent of total imports) contributed to …
Farmers welcome signal water tax may be dropped
Speaking on Radio New Zealand, she said Labour was “absolutely … Both Labour and NZ First had policies to strengthen forestry, with the setting up …
What Labour has planned in its first 100 days, and how likely it’ll happen
Likelihood: Excellent. It ties in nicely with NZ First’s plan to boost the New Zealand forestry sector. It could take a while before the effects start to be felt, …