24 May 2010
As part the emission trading scheme (ETS) the Government would over five years pay $1.6 billion to foresters to plant trees. It would get $900 million of this from taxpayers and $600 m from other ETS revenue gathering, prime minister John Key told TVNZ's Breakfast programme today.
27 May 2010
New Primary Growth Partnership funding to improve forest harvesting technology has a huge potential to benefit the New Zealand economy and make logging safer for workers on the ground.
27 May 2010
Funding for research into steep country logging is part of the first allocation of funds from the Primary Growth Partnership.
27 May 2010
The Forest Legality Alliance was launched today to support private sector efforts and policies to reduce trade in illegally harvested wood. The Alliance is a global public-private initiative open to businesses, industry associations, financial institutions and civil society organizations with a stake in legal forest product supply chains.
29 May 2010
Development of the National Standard for Certification of Plantation Forest Management in New Zealand in accordance with Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) has recommenced.
31 May 2010
The big Motueka River flood of 16 May has drained the Tasman District Council's emergency fund, but the council's engineering services committee chairman Trevor Norriss disputes that forestry companies are to blame for property damage.
1 Jun 2010
US legislation designed to stop the trade in products from illegally logged forests appears to be working in Malaysia.
2 Jun 2010
The Government of Norway has pledged up to US $1 billion for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) in Indonesia.
4 Jun 2010
Indonesia's chief economic minister said on Wednesday that the government will not revoke existing forestry licenses to develop natural forests under a billion dollar conservation deal signed last week with Norway.
