14 November 2022
EDS claims unfounded and should know better
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 should know better.
12 October 2022
Foresters ask James Shaw if the government wants more trees or not
Foresters are saying a suggestion by Climate Change Minister James Shaw to centralise buying carbon credits in central government, and decoupling the Emissions Trading Scheme from forestry, is a message that trees are irrelevant to fighting climate change.
6 October 2022
Biogenic methane issue ‘alarming’ but forestry helps
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.
13 September 2022
Wooden cities key to cutting worldwide carbon emissions to combat climate change.
The Forest Owners Association President is predicting massive increases in the worldwide demand for engineered timber construction.
1 September 2022
Forestry Transformation Plan could be ‘game changer’ for New Zealand economy and for combating climate change
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.
Forest Owners say native trees are nice but won’t solve the Climate Emergency
The Forest Owners Association says the just released Emissions Reduction Plan is a welcome and unprecedented blueprint for reducing New Zealand’s gross emissions.
30 June 2022
Federated Farmers struggling with both the law and arithmetic
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.
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.
28 April 2022
Please refer to the EDN decision FAQ document provided by STIMBR for answers to common queries relating to the EPA’s 5 April 2022 decision approving EDN for use in NZ.
10 November 2023 Foresters back the call of the blue duck
9 October 2023 Forestry seeking judicial review to halt ETS fees. The Ministry for Primary Industries’ new fees...
FOA produce a number of publications.If you require further information on any of them please email us.
Careers in Forestry - training and career information
Commodity Levy - information relating to the levy
Planted Forests Portal - key statistics
IRIS - Incident Reporting Information System
Rare species - managing rare species in plantation forests
Log Transport Safety Council - to report incidents of log truck driver behaviour (good and bad)
FISC - The safety body for the forestry sector.
