8 March 2022
Overseas investment in Forestry - hui on changes to the Overseas Investment Act 2005
Forestry News
The folly of the native forest carbon solution
22 February 2022
The Farm Forestry Association says anthropologist Dame Anne Salmond’s recently publicised views, that planting native forests offer the best solution to the climate crisis, is misinformed and misleading.
Forestry Minister has strategic leadership opportunity in farm forestry
4 February 2022
Forestry Minister has strategic leadership opportunity in farm forestry
Research on spontaneous combustion
26 October 2021
2021 Factors contributing to spontaneous combustion of slash at skid sites Final Report.
News around the ROVE and FWAP
12 December 2019
An update on the Reform of Vocational Education from FOA, FFA, FICA, and Competenz
Forest Research Awards emphasise range of challenges in tree science
16 October 2019
Joint Media Release with Forest Growers Research
Researchers in fields as diverse as nitrogen movement in forest soils, to the designer of a grapple on a helicopter to collect forest slash from vulnerable slopes, have been recognised at the Forest Growers Research Awards at Te Papa in Wellington (eds -Tuesday 15 October).
Forest industry says Te Uru Rākau expansion vital for coherent forest development
17 May 2019
Forest industry leaders say the pre-Budget announcement by Forestry Minister Shane Jones of additional regional resources for Te Uru Rākau is potentially of great benefit to regional New Zealand.
Opportunities Party identifies safe, valuable use of genetic technology
2 May 2019
Joint Media Release with Federated Farmers
The Forest Owners Association and Federated Farmers congratulate The Opportunities Party for its balanced and sensible gene editing policy, which recognises the significant economic and environmental benefits gene editing technology can provide.
Call for foresters to vote on levy order
16 April 2019
The Chair of the Forest Growers Levy Trust, Geoff Thompson, says a positive vote in the current levy referendum is vital to maintain the support of government funding for the industry.