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• Emissions Trading announcement is incentive for farmers to plant trees
  Tuesday, March 26, 2019
  Forest owners believe the just announced reform of the Emissions Trading Scheme will encourage farm foresters and hill country pastoral farmers to plant more trees. Farm Forestry Association Chair, Neil…
• PCE Report needs clarity from government
  Monday, March 25, 2019
  Forest Owners want clarity for what New Zealand plantation forestry is expected to deliver on climate change targets. The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, Simon Upton, has just issued a…
• Boosting forest harvesting productivity, safety and skills focus of new programme
  Thursday, March 14, 2019
  Boosting forest productivity, technology, safety and skills and reducing environmental impacts are at the heart of a new programme announced today. Te Māhi Ngahere I te Ao Hurihuri – Forestry Work…
• Awareness and perceptions of the forest growers commodity levy
  Wednesday, February 27, 2019
  The New Zealand Forest Owners Association (FOA), the New Zealand Farm Forestry Association (FFA), and the Forest Growers Levy Trust (FGLT) have commissioned research to help them understand the awareness…
• Land Information NZ develops wildling tool
  Wednesday, January 30, 2019
  A new tool to enable the public to help fight one of New Zealand’s most invasive species has been created by Land Information New Zealand (LINZ). Wilding Watch can be…
• $36 million investment approved to tackle regional erosion
  Wednesday, January 16, 2019
  Te Uru Rākau (Forestry New Zealand) has announced funding of almost $36 million through the Hill Country Erosion Fund (HCEF) to enable much-needed erosion control in the regions. The HCEF…
• Forest Practice Guides launched
  Thursday, October 04, 2018
  The Forest Owners Association has today launched a series of 28 Forest Practice Guides. The Guides are a joint venture between the forest sector and MPI and were initiated as…
• Scion strategy to 2030: Right tree, right place, right purpose
  Sunday, September 30, 2018
  Scion publishes its strategy "Strategy to 2030: Right tree, right place, right purpose".  Scion strategy to 2030
• Productivity Commission Report heralds massive land conversion to forestry
  Monday, September 03, 2018
  Forest owners say the Productivity Commission’s call for up to 2.8 million hectares of land to be turned into forests as a carbon sink would require implementing the most ambitious…
• Emissions Trading Scheme revisions timely and necessary for climate change goals
  Monday, August 13, 2018
  Forest owners are calling the proposed revisions to the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) both timely and necessary if New Zealand is to hope to meet its greenhouse gas reduction targets.…
• Trees for steep erosion prone land report released
  Monday, August 06, 2018
  A report on alternative plantation forest species is now available on the New Zealand Farm Forestry Association website detailing the characteristics of a wide variety of tree species that are…
• One billion trees programme tree list
  Wednesday, July 11, 2018
  Planting the right tree in the right place is important because today’s tree planting decisions can have impacts that last for generations. One of the first decisions you have to…
• NZ Institute of Forestry launches new National Forest Policy
  Sunday, July 08, 2018
  New Zealand forestry professionals meeting for their annual conference in Nelson today will receive and discuss a new national forest policy. The document “Forest Policy for New Zealand” has been…
• Forest owners vow to deal with forest harvest slash
  Wednesday, June 27, 2018
  Forest Owners say the industry is focused on measures to make sure a repeat of the recent floods transporting harvest debris out of forests and into Tolaga Bay isn’t repeated…
• Protecting our Eucalyptus trees
  Wednesday, June 20, 2018
  Scion are undertaking community pre-consultation on a proposed biological control of the Eucalyptus tortoise beetle. Eucalyptus plantations are a recognisable part of New Zealand’s diversified forestry industry. They provide pulp and…
• Forest industry reputation damaged by mobilisation of forest harvest residues
  Sunday, May 27, 2018
  The successful prosecution of a forest management company by the Marlborough District Council has been endorsed by the Forest Owners Association. Merrill and Ring has been fined $39,000 and ordered…
• Biosecurity Levy Proposal, as it affects Plantation Forest Owners
  Tuesday, May 15, 2018
  Consultation Document: The New Zealand Forest Owners Association (FOA) and the NZ Farm Forestry Association (FFA) acting on behalf of New Zealand plantation forest owners plans to apply to the…
• Advisory group has the right mix for huge land use challenge
  Thursday, May 10, 2018
  The Forest Owners Association President Peter Weir says Shane Jones’ just announced Advisory group has the right mix of forest industry background and experience to take the industry forward into…
• Forest industry backing judgment against forest companies
  Monday, April 23, 2018
  Forest industry associations are supporting penalties imposed in the District Court against Bay of Plenty forest owner Whitikau Holdings and two harvesting contractors. The companies pleaded guilty to charges laid…
• Pre application consultation has begun for a new potential biological control introduction to control Eucalyptus tortoise beetle, Paropsis charybdis
  Monday, April 09, 2018
  Background The Farm Forestry Association, and Scion have been collaborating for the last 5 years on a project to get a new biological control agent into New Zealand to control…
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