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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 >>
Forest Owners Say Fish And Game Barking Up The Wrong Tree
Thursday, 9 December 2021, 2:51 pm | NZ Forest Owners Association
The Forest Owners Association says Fish and Game’s criticism of exotic plantation forests doesn’t accord with reality. “Fish and Game is, quite simply, barking up the wrong tree when it invents what it calls a ‘myriad of adverse impacts’ ... More >>
Forest Owners Says Lessons For New Zealand In UN Wood-Based Products Report
Friday, 19 November 2021, 2:55 pm | NZ Forest Owners Association
The Forest Owners Association says the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation has laid down a blueprint for the New Zealand forest and wood industry, with the release of ‘ Forest Products in the Global Economy’ , as part of the COP26 meeting and ... More >>
New Zealand Forest Owners Sign On To International Wood Manifesto Leading Into COP26
Friday, 29 October 2021, 6:29 am | NZ Forest Owners Association
The New Zealand Forest Owners Association has joined 17 other forest and timber organisations around the world in launching the International Wood Manifesto in London, to lead into the crucial COP26 UN climate change conference starting in Glasgow on ... More >>
New Construction Policy Will Deliver More Timber Use
Monday, 6 July 2020, 4:38 pm | NZ Forest Owners Association
The Forest Owners Association says the MBIE announcement of ‘Building for Climate Change’ will mean more timber is used in New Zealand construction. FOA President Phil Taylor says he’s been waiting three years for the government to announce a ... More >>
Feds Telling Their Members They Can’t Sell Land For Forestry
Sunday, 5 July 2020, 6:43 pm | NZ Forest Owners Association
The Forest Owners Association is startled that the new Federated Farmers Meat and Wool Chair is asking the government to restrict the right of farmer members to plant trees or sell their land for forestry. Recently elected Meat and Wool Chair, William ... More >>
Promised Forest Limit Trashes Zero Carbon Goals By At Least 30,000 Hectares A Year
Monday, 22 June 2020, 4:38 pm | NZ Forest Owners Association
The Forest Owners Association says New Zealand’s carbon zero goal is seriously in doubt after a statement by the Minister of Agriculture, Damien O’Connor, that the government would ‘need to step in’ if new forest planting increased to more ... More >>
