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• Budget fails to plan for forest future
  May, 2017
  Forest Owners Association President Peter Clark says the Budget is money for urban New Zealanders’ immediate concerns, and he says it fails to provide and prepare for the scale of…
• No need for delay in forest planting
  May, 2017
  Forest owners are saying the government needs to get extra forest planting under way and not wait until next year for a report to be presented on climate change. FOA…
• Forest Owners want Vivid Economics Report implemented
  March, 2017
  The Forest Owners Association says policy makers must decide soon on which option to adopt from the just released Vivid report recommending various scenarios for making New Zealand carbon neutral.…
• New Zealand forest industry important nationally, regionally and environmentally – NZIER Report
  March, 2017
  A report on the plantation forest industry has highlighted its value to national and regional economies, as well as forestry's beneficial effect on New Zealand's ecology. The NZIER Report was…
• Forest Owners urge farmers to plant more trees
  February, 2017
  Forest Owners say the new Federated Farmers' policy on climate change is a major step to help farmers understand trees are not an alternative to farming, but rather trees are…
• Timber Harvesting in New Zealand: A guide for Small Scale Forest Landowners
  February, 2017
  This information resource has been produced by NZFFA with growers levy funding and is the first in a series of web-based information pages to be produced for growers. Timber Harvesting…
• Update on Paropsis biocontrol December 2016
  December, 2016
  The parasitoid wasp Eadya paropsidis remains a strong candidate for safe release as a biological control agent for Eucalyptus tortoise beetle in New Zealand. Eadya paropsidis has been identified as…
• More trees part of the answer to agriculture's greenhouse gas emissions
  October, 2016
  The Forest Owners Association is backing the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment’s call for more plantation forests to be planted in New Zealand to offset greenhouse gas emissions in agriculture.…
• Forest industry wants to see how government can deliver on Biosecurity 2025 promise
  October, 2016
  The Forest Owners Association believes the government is aiming in the right direction with its just announced biosecurity ambitions, but wants to see real plans to deliver on this intention.…
• Forest industry’s challenge to manage supply fluctuations
  August, 2016
  The pan forest and timber processing industry organisation, the New Zealand Wood Council (Woodco) says there is a supply challenge for many regions in the domestic processing industry. WoodCo media…
• Eucalyptus Beetle Investigation Underway
  August, 2016
  Eucalyptus Beetle (paropsisterna beata) Investigation Underway MPI has been conducting an investigation on a suspect eucalyptus beetle found on firewood as a result of a posting on NatureWatch.  The notifier…
• Timber industry ready to contribute to home building catch-up
  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. Woodco chair, Brian Stanley, says the volume of…
• ETS subsidy removal could deliver efficiency
  July, 2016
    The New Zealand Wood Council says the government decision to phase out a polluters’ subsidy in the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) is a step in the right direction, but…
• Report: Pathways to Building Code compliance for farm-totara timber
  June, 2016
  Backed by the Sustainable Farming Fund, Tanes Tree Trust and NZFFA, this report explores opportunities for Building Code compliance that would lead to market development and greatly increase the potential…
• The Forest Industry Safety Council What is it up to?
  June, 2016
  Ian Jackson New Zealand Tree Grower, May 2016. On March 16 at the Forestwood conference in Auckland, on behalf of NZFFA, I signed the charter for the Forest Industry Safety…
• Update on SFF Paropsis biocontrol project May 2016
  May, 2016
  The Tasmanian parasitoid wasp, Eadya paropsidis, is being investigated as a potential biological control agent for Paropsis charybdis, the Eucalyptus tortoise beetle. The first year of the three year Sustainable…
• Fire and Emergency New Zealand
  May, 2016
  The NZ Farm Forestry Association (NZFFA ) welcomes the Minister of Internal Affairs’ (Peter Dunne) announcement that Budget 2016 will include $303m to modernise and combine New Zealand’s urban and…
• Pure Advantage calls for 1.3 million hectares of new forest in New Zealand
  April, 2016
  As set forth in the Pure Advantage discussion paper, Our Forest Future, this goal is defined as ambitious but realistic. Our Forest Future "Our future forests will add national value…
• Bennett supported by forest owners at New York signing
  April, 2016
  Forest owners say the formal adoption of the Paris climate change agreement in New York on Friday [22 April] will potentially have great benefits for both plantation and natural forests…
• New forestry leader
  April, 2016
  Peter Clark, the chief executive officer of PF Olsen Ltd, has been elected president of the Forest Owners Association (FOA). FOREST OWNERS ASSOCIATION Media release 16 April 2016 He replaces…
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