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Forest Owners Persecuted For Climate Change Action
Wednesday, 4 December 2024, 7:00 pm | NZ Forest Owners Association
New rules limiting farm to forestry conversions under the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) are set to have dire consequences for forest growers in New Zealand and the country’s ability to meet its climate change targets. More >>
Forest Owners Call For Greater Examination Of Forestry As A Value Land Use
Thursday, 22 August 2024, 5:32 pm | NZ Forest Owners Association
NZFOA chief executive, Dr Elizabeth Heeg, says while the sector welcomes the science and modelling behind the report, a more critical examination of land use evidence is needed. More >>
High Court Ruling Builds Confidence In Forestry's National Environmental Controls
Friday, 21 June 2024, 4:59 pm | NZ Forest Owners Association
Forest growers in the Canterbury region say the High Court’s ruling on sediment discharge and water yield rules provides certainty and consistency in environmental controls for growers across the country. More >>
Forestry Minister Announces ETS Fee Change And A Renewed Vision For Forestry
Friday, 14 June 2024, 6:14 pm | NZ Forest Owners Association
New Zealand Forest Owners Association chief executive Dr Elizabeth Heeg welcomed the news removing the ETS charge and supported a more collaborative relationship with the Government to grow forestry in New Zealand. More >>
Repeal Of Forest Regulation A Relief For Cost-struck Growers
Friday, 31 May 2024, 7:11 pm | NZ Forest Owners Association
Forest owners say the repeal of legislation surrounding log traders and forest advisors will provide relief and assurance to growers facing increased regulatory cost and complexities. More >>
Forests Pivotal For Building A More Resilient Environment
Wednesday, 22 May 2024, 6:36 pm | NZ Forest Owners Association
New Zealand Forest Owners Association chief executive, Dr Elizabeth Heeg, says forest owners are supporters of an integrated land use conversation but says forestry must first be recognised as a valued part of that land use mosaic. More >>
Forest Owners Say Clark Foundation Report Ignores Benefits Of Forestry
Tuesday, 16 April 2024, 1:40 pm | NZ Forest Owners Association
The Pathways to Prosperity report clings to forestry misconceptions, claiming the sector is a pine ‘monoculture’, producing woody material and sediment in waterways and having a negative impact on rural communities. More >>
Emissions Trading Scheme Fee Review A Relief For Cost-struck Foresters
Thursday, 29 February 2024, 5:28 pm | NZ Forest Owners Association
The New Zealand Forest Owners Association says the review of the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) fees is a relief for foresters facing excessive costs and loss of climate change action. Announced by Forestry Minister, Hon Todd McClay, the review will re-evaluate ... More >>
Forest Plantation Soils Have Benefits Too
Tuesday, 19 December 2023, 11:25 pm | NZ Forest Owners Association
The Forest Owners Association (FOA) says the fact that soils under plantation forests are similar to soils under native trees, does not make them damaged, as a recent Newshub report has claimed. FOA President, Grant Dodson, says a representative of ... More >>
Wilding Conifers A Legacy Issue That Need Continued, Collaborative Management
Friday, 27 October 2023, 3:55 pm | NZ Forest Owners Association
Forest owners welcome the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment’s (PCE) acknowledgement that the presence of wilding conifers across New Zealand is largely a legacy issue, but caution against placing costs on foresters who are already investing ... More >>
Forest Owners say judgment legitimises council's abuse of minority ratepayers and wants law change
Wednesday, 30 August 2023, 6:21 pm | NZ Forest Owners Association
The Forest Owners Association wants the incoming government to change the Local Government Act to protect minority ratepayers in rural areas. The FOA says the recent Court of Appeal judgment, against forest owners in Wairoa, opens the way for local ... More >>
Planting Restrictions Will Thwart Foresters' Choice And Trash Climate Change Targets
Wednesday, 14 June 2023, 7:21 pm | NZ Forest Owners Association
Labour’s commitment to tighten the rules around farm-to-forestry conversions will thwart land owners' choice on where they can plant trees and mean that Aotearoa New Zealand will fail to reach its climate charge target by 2050. In a press statement ... More >>
Kiwi Milestone Made Possible Through Forestry
Monday, 12 June 2023, 7:47 pm | NZ Forest Owners Association
Foresters have celebrated a collective conservation effort, with the one hundredth kiwi released into a plantation forest on Coromandel Peninsula. The milestone is part of an 11-year collaboration between Project Kiwi and Summit Forests NZ who have ... More >>
Forest Owners Back More Trees For Tairāwhiti
Wednesday, 12 April 2023, 8:16 am | NZ Forest Owners Association
The Forest Owners Association has told the Ministerial Inquiry into land use in Tairāwhiti, that the region’s future has to include more trees for land stability. But it appreciates forest practices also have to improve with increasing land use ... More >>
Hill Country Farming Campaign Shows They Think Climate Change Is Someone Else’s Problem
Friday, 10 March 2023, 6:54 am | NZ Forest Owners Association
The Forest Owners Association says the latest campaign against forestry, led by Beef+Lamb New Zealand and 50 Shades of Green, is climate change responsibility denial, and is dangerous in the long term for New Zealand’s sheep and beef farmers. Forest ... More >>
Forest Owners Says Two Months Too Brief To Look Into The Complex Land Issues In Tairāwhiti
Friday, 24 February 2023, 6:53 am | NZ Forest Owners Association
The Forest Owners Association says the two month long inquiry into land use in Tairāwhiti doesn’t give enough time or depth to find solutions. The Prime Minister, Chris Hipkins has just announced the government would be launching a Ministerial level ... More >>
‘Smart Spade’ One Of New Technologies For Forest Silviculture Project
Friday, 6 May 2022, 1:37 pm | NZ Forest Owners Association
A ‘smart spade’ which identifies exactly where to plant a tree seedling is just one of the new technologies in the seven-year $25.5 million Precision Silviculture development project. The newly elected President of the Forest Owners Association, ... More >>
Forest Owners Call For Forest Trade Mission To India Following Approval Of New Fumigant For Log Exports
Tuesday, 12 April 2022, 1:00 pm | NZ Forest Owners Association
The Forest Owners Association wants a delegation of government ministers to urgently go to India to try to re-open the export log market there, following the New Zealand Environmental Protection Authority approval for EDN fumigation of export log stacks. ... More >>
Forest Owners Says IPCC Doesn't Back Anne Salmond
Wednesday, 2 March 2022, 3:38 pm | NZ Forest Owners Association
The Forest Owners Association says highly qualified reservations in the latest International Panel on Climate Change report, do not back anthropologist Anne Salmond’s claims that New Zealand should switch exclusively to native trees for its carbon sequestration ... More >>
Forest Owners Challenge Federated Farmers To Prove Misleading Carbon Farming Claims
Tuesday, 1 February 2022, 2:59 pm | NZ Forest Owners Association
The Forest Owners Association is telling Federated Farmers that it needs to educate itself about how the Overseas Investment Act works before making any more false claims about non-existent overseas investment in carbon farming. Carbon farming is where ... More >>
