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Foresters Back The Call Of The Blue Duck
Friday, 10 November 2023, 3:54 pm | NZ Forest Owners' Association
The Forest Owners Association (FOA) is promoting New Zealand’s endemic whio - the blue duck - for Bird of the Century. Entries for Forest & Bird’s national bird competition close this Sunday. FOA chief executive, Dr Elizabeth Heeg, says ... More >>
Forestry Seeking Judicial Review To Halt ETS Fees
Monday, 9 October 2023, 1:30 pm | NZ Forest Owners' Association
The Ministry for Primary Industries’ new fees regime, which will increase costs for foresters participating in New Zealand's Emissions Trading Scheme by several thousand percent, will undermine climate action, put Iwi, landowners and farm foresters ... More >>
Local Government Insufficiently Resourced To Cope With Forest Slash Problem
Tuesday, 3 October 2023, 9:44 pm | NZ Forest Owners' Association
Forest Owners say the just announced regulations to deal with forest slash will result in a mishmash of regulations which will lead to even less forest planting and compromise forest carbon sequestration to meet climate change targets. FOA President, ... More >>
Cost Recovery Bill Of More Than $14 Million A Year Another Kneecap For Forestry
Thursday, 21 September 2023, 1:36 pm | NZ Forest Owners' Association
The Forest Owners Association (FOA) says the just announced cost recovery scheme for the Emissions Trading Scheme is another government disincentive to plant forests just when they are most needed. President Grant Dodson says the huge jump to a more ... More >>
New Forest Owners Chief Executive Looking To Forestry As Sustainable Keystone Of Bioeconomy
Tuesday, 29 August 2023, 8:55 pm | NZ Forest Owners' Association
The new Chief Executive of the Forest Owners Association, Dr Elizabeth Heeg, is promising to expand the vision of the forest industry. Elizabeth Heeg has just taken up the job, to replace long serving chief executive David Rhodes. She was previously ... More >>
Forest Owners Say Planting Increase Is Positive For The Environment
Monday, 14 August 2023, 2:06 pm | NZ Forest Owners' Association
The Forest Owners Association says an expansion of new forest planting in 2021, highlighted in a new report, is positive news for carbon capture ambitions. Beef + Lamb NZ has released a commissioned report by Orme & Associates. Beef + ... More >>
Forest Owners Want ETS Review Put On Hold
Thursday, 10 August 2023, 4:01 pm | NZ Forest Owners' Association
The Forest Owners Association wants the government to put an immediate hold on a reform of the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) to restore stability to the carbon market and certainty for forest planning. FOA President, Grant Dodson, says the reform options ... More >>
ETS Reset A Positive Step Towards Net-zero
Wednesday, 26 July 2023, 3:12 pm | NZ Forest Owners' Association
The Forest Owners Association says the government’s reset of the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) auction settings will stabilise the carbon market and set New Zealand on a positive trajectory to achieve its net-zero target by 2050. The carbon market ... More >>
Court Decision Backs The Need For Forestry In Combatting Climate Change
Wednesday, 19 July 2023, 11:05 am | NZ Forest Owners' Association
The Forest Owners Association says the successful judicial review of the workings of the Emissions Trading Scheme shows government attitudes and actions are jeopardising New Zealand reaching its greenhouse gas reduction goals. The High Court in Wellington ... More >>
SNA Regulations 'confusing Ecological Naivety'
Friday, 7 July 2023, 12:57 pm | NZ Forest Owners' Association
Forest Owners say the just released National Policy Statement on Indigenous Biodiversity (NPSIB) is a classic bureaucratic formula of confusing ecological naivety which will not help rare species and likely have an opposite effect. Forest Owners Association ... More >>
Foresters Need Positive Signals In ETS Reform
Tuesday, 20 June 2023, 1:03 pm | NZ Forest Owners' Association
The Forest Owners Association (FOA) says the just announced reform options for revising the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) will cause a shortfall of plantation forests for sequestering carbon in New Zealand and make meeting our 2050 emissions target impossible. ... More >>
International Report Highlights Forest Products Important To Meet Climate Targets
Thursday, 1 June 2023, 4:56 pm | NZ Forest Owners' Association
The New Zealand Forest Owners Association (NZFOA) says a just released international report has highlighted the value of forest products for meeting greenhouse gas reduction targets. NZFOA Chief Executive and member of the International Council of Forestry ... More >>
Forest Owners Hail ‘Biosecurity Hero’
Tuesday, 23 May 2023, 11:47 am | NZ Forest Owners' Association
The Forest Owners Association and Scion want more people to report suspicious imported wood products which might be infested with introduced wood and forest pests. FOA Biosecurity Manager, Brendan Gould, says Northlander Michelle Reichardt is a biosecurity ... More >>
Tairāwhiti Land Use Inquiry Not Addressing Wider Issues
Sunday, 14 May 2023, 3:01 pm | NZ Forest Owners' Association
The Forest Owners Association says the Ministerial Inquiry into landuse in Tarāwhiti has a core of practical recommendations, but has not addressed some more difficult and fundamental issues. President, Grant Dodson says concentrating on changing forest ... More >>
Forest Owners Say Carbon-only Forestry Should Be Kept Off Productive Land
Wednesday, 19 April 2023, 4:17 pm | NZ Forest Owners' Association
The Forest Owners Association would like to see production forestry and farming on productive land – rather than this land used for carbon-only forests. It says this should be a priority for any incoming government. The FOA has been approached ... More >>
Forest Owners Want Genetic Technology Approved
Friday, 17 February 2023, 11:33 am | NZ Forest Owners' Association
The Forest Owners Organisation says New Zealand needs to concentrate on the safety of genetic technology on a case-by-case basis rather than persisting with blanket bans. The FOA wants approval to introduce Douglas fir trees which can’t reproduce ... More >>
EDS Claims Unfounded And Should Know Better
Monday, 14 November 2022, 3:37 pm | NZ Forest Owners' Association
The President of the Forest Owners Association says that once again the commercial forest industry is having to point to its science based environmental credentials to organisations such as the Environmental Defence Society which Grant Dodson says ... More >>
Biogenic Methane Issue ‘alarming’ But Forestry Helps
Thursday, 6 October 2022, 1:52 pm | NZ Forest Owners' Association
The Forest Owners Association says the highlighting of biogenic methane discharges, in a report just issued by the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, is alarming and urgently calls for forest planting solutions to buy New Zealand time. ... More >>
Wooden Cities Key To Cutting Worldwide Carbon Emissions To Combat Climate Change.
Tuesday, 13 September 2022, 2:32 pm | NZ Forest Owners' Association
The Forest Owners Association President is predicting massive increases in the worldwide demand for engineered timber construction. Grant Dodson has told delegates at the Forest Institute Conference in Auckland today (Tues 13th eds) that continuing worldwide ... More >>
Forestry Transformation Plan Could Be ‘Game Changer’ For New Zealand Economy And For Combating Climate Change
Friday, 19 August 2022, 7:18 pm | NZ Forest Owners' Association
The Forest Owners Association says the Forestry and Wood Processing Industry Transformation Plan has the potential to drive New Zealand’s biggest step yet to increase domestic value-add to forest products. The FOA also says the ITP is a vital tool to combat ... More >>
