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Federated Farmers Struggling With Both The Law And Arithmetic
Thursday, 30 June 2022, 3:30 pm | NZ Forest Owners' Association
The Forest Owners Association says Federated Farmers have got their sums wrong on the rate of forest planting and don’t understand the law on overseas investment either. FOA is responding to claims made by Federated Farmers to Parliament’s Finance ... More >>
Forest Owners Say Native Trees Are Nice But Won’t Solve The Climate Emergency
Tuesday, 17 May 2022, 2:16 pm | NZ Forest Owners' Association
The Forest Owners Association says the just released Emissions Reduction Plan is a welcome and unprecedented blueprint for reducing New Zealand’s gross emissions. But the Association is warning that a huge emphasis in the ERP on planting native ... More >>
Forest Owners Puzzled At Overseas Investment Reform
Thursday, 24 February 2022, 2:40 pm | NZ Forest Owners' Association
The Forest Owners Association is asking why the government needs to reintroduce more process around overseas investment for conversions from pasture to plantation forests. The Associate Minister of Finance, David Parker, says the government is ... More >>
Forest Owners Tell Government To Look Across The Tasman
Monday, 21 February 2022, 4:06 pm | NZ Forest Owners' Association
The Forest Owners Association is telling the government that Australia’s support of plantation forestry is in sharp contrast to the increasingly restrictive measures being promised in New Zealand by our government. The Australian Prime Minister, Scott ... More >>
Forest Owners Say ‘back The Bat’
Wednesday, 27 October 2021, 12:30 pm | NZ Forest Owners' Association
The Forest Owners Association is urging its members and the public to vote for the pekapeka – the Long-Tailed Bat - in the Forest and Bird sponsored Bird of the Year 2021 competition. President, Phil Taylor, says Forest and Bird should be congratulated ... More >>
Forest Owners Says Extra Planting ‘just As Well’ Given Slippage On Carbon Reduction Targets
Friday, 15 October 2021, 8:57 am | NZ Forest Owners' Association
The Forest Owners Association is saying that foresters’ intentions to plant more trees is an immediate and practical insurance against New Zealand not achieving greenhouse gas reduction goals. The Association President, Phil Taylor, says the reaction to ... More >>
EDS attack on forestry ignores threat of climate change
Friday, 17 September 2021, 1:43 pm | NZ Forest Owners' Association
The forest industry is calling a media statement from the Environmental Defence Society an ill-informed rant against forestry which ignores the threat of climate change. Forest Owners Association President, Phil Taylor, says he would not have ... More >>
Industry Says Main Political Parties Abandon Forest Industry At Economic And Environmental Cost
Tuesday, 13 October 2020, 2:20 pm | NZ Forest Owners' Association
The Labour and National parties’ policies on forestry, leading into the election, are disappointing to forest industry leaders. They say the policies jeopardise New Zealand’s post-covid economic recovery and New Zealand reaching its carbon emission ... More >>
Taxpayers To Pick Up Carbon Cost If Production Forests Are Restricted
Friday, 18 September 2020, 3:06 pm | NZ Forest Owners' Association
The Forest Owners Association says taxpayers are likely to have to pay billions of dollars for imported carbon credits, if planting production forests is to be restricted with the idea of protecting farming. The Environment Minister, David Parker has said ... More >>
Forest Industry Says Government Wood Preference Policy Good For Economy And Environment
Wednesday, 16 September 2020, 12:28 pm | NZ Forest Owners' Association
Forest owners say the government’s announcement of a policy to give preference to low greenhouse gas emission materials in government construction will be good for both the environment and for the timber construction industry. The Forest Owners ... More >>
Forest Owners Brace For Avalanche Of Clip-boards In Government Measure
Friday, 15 May 2020, 1:12 pm | NZ Forest Owners' Association
The Forest Owners Association says the industry anticipates an unacceptable and pointless bureaucratic cost to all parts of the forest industry, if the Forests (Regulation of Log Traders and Forestry Advisers) Amendment Bill becomes law. The bill was introduced ... More >>
Foresters Says Shane Jones’ Call To Preference Domestic Timber Supplies Can’t Work
Wednesday, 8 April 2020, 2:50 pm | NZ Forest Owners' Association
Foresters are saying that log supply to domestic and export markets is inextricably linked and can’t be separated, as Forests Minister Shane Jones now seems to be advocating. Forest Owners Association President Phil Taylor says a harvest of just ... More >>
Forest Industry Backing Government COVID-19 Strategy
Friday, 27 March 2020, 1:07 pm | NZ Forest Owners' Association
The Forest Owners Association is backing the government’s strategy to combat COVID-19 as just about all parts of the forest industry are now in shut-down. President Phil Taylor says the FOA appreciates the government’s difficulties in working in great ... More >>
Forest Industry Says Working With Government Is Vital To Lead Recovery After COVID-19 Epidemic
Friday, 20 March 2020, 5:35 pm | NZ Forest Owners' Association
The Forest Owners Association says it’s working closely with government in making sure that relief packages for forestry workers will both look after the workers and also speed economic recovery when the almost inevitable New Zealand COVID-19 epidemic ... More >>
Forest owners wary of closing access risk in China
Monday, 3 February 2020, 6:46 pm | NZ Forest Owners' Association
New Zealand log exporters are bracing themselves for supply chain problems in China due to the outbreak of coronavirus. More >>
Forest Owners urge vote for tōtara as plant of the year
Thursday, 21 November 2019, 11:59 am | NZ Forest Owners' Association
The Forest Owners Association wants people to vote for tōtara as plant of the year in a poll being conducted by the New Zealand Plant Conservation Network. Association President, Peter Weir, says this indigenous tree is probably the best bet for the ... More >>
March on Parliament deliberately created confusion
Tuesday, 12 November 2019, 2:27 pm | NZ Forest Owners' Association
Large and small scale and Māori foresters say the 50 Shades of Green march on parliament on Thursday (eds 14 November) highlights deliberately created confusion about the true nature and recent scope of forestry expansion. More >>
Vote for the kārearea
Saturday, 9 November 2019, 11:03 am | NZ Forest Owners' Association
Vote for the kārearea The Forest Owners Association is urging people to vote for the kārearea, or native falcon, for Bird of the Year. Most pairs of this rare bird live in pine forests where they nest on the ground among newly planted trees and ... More >>
Communication is vital as more rural fires will occur
Wednesday, 30 October 2019, 11:46 am | NZ Forest Owners' Association
Foresters are agreeing with the main recommendations coming out of the just released review of the Tasman fires last February, but say there’s nothing in the report that hasn’t been said before and implementation is overdue. More >>
Research Awards emphasise range of challenges in tree scienc
Wednesday, 16 October 2019, 10:33 am | NZ Forest Owners' Association
Researchers in fields as diverse as nitrogen movement in forest soils, to the designer of a grapple on a helicopter to collect forest slash from vulnerable slopes, have been recognised at the Forest Growers Research Awards at Te Papa in Wellington (eds ... More >>
