28 August 2016
Roving 'log grabbers' in Northland buying immature trees for export may exacerbate log supply pressure at the expense of our local construction industry (Sunday Star-Times 21st August). But these procurers did not create the problem.
Forestry News
Otago foresters win stream crossing design award for Slipstream Crossing
14 August 2016
Ernslaw One foresters, Greg Kendal and Paul Hart, were awarded an industry excellence award by the Otago Regional Council for their Slipstream Crossing device.
Timber industry ready to contribute to home building catch-up
4 July 2016
The timber industry believes the government's announced boost to home construction, through a Housing Infrastructure Fund, needs to have a timber focus.
AGS applications close on 8 June
27 April 2016
The second funding round for New Zealand's Afforestation Growth Scheme (AGS) opened this week and comes at an important time for forestry, Associate Primary Industries Minister Jo Goodhew announced.
Bennett considers cancelling dodgy carbon credits
26 April 2016
Climate change Minister Paula Bennett is considering cancelling 122.2 million surplus Kyoto units. It comes amid heightened public attention on New Zealand's climate policy in the wake of a Morgan Foundation report released last week that said the reliance on 'dodgy' Eastern European carbon credits rendered the country "climate cheats".
NZ needs to expand its forest cover: report
22 April 2016
Pure Advantage today launches its new report, Our Forest Future, as the Government signs a landmark UN agreement to rein in global warming. The group calls for a new national forest strategy that would halt deforestation and ultimately create 1.3 million hectares of new forest.
Fourth death in forestry this year
31 March 2016
A forestry worker has been killed after a tree fell on him in a forest north of Napier. The death is the fourth in forestry this year.
NZ forest harvest volumes fall in 2015 for first time in 7 years
21 March 2015
New Zealand forest harvest volumes declined in 2015 for the first time in seven years as uncertainty about future prices prompted plantation owners to hold back from felling their trees.
Hikurangi Forest Farms falsely accused
18 March 2016
The claim made this week that local stakeholders in the Gisborne forestry industry have accused Hikurangi Forest Farms of boycotting the Prime Sawmill appears to have little basis, according to an article in The Gisborne Herald. It appears to be part of a dispute between a Swiss-based conservation fund and HFF's parent company, Malaysian-owned Samling Group.