7.3 million trees planted through Ministry for Primary Industries
15 March 2018
The launch of the Government’s Provincial Growth Programme is expected to result in Hawke’s Bay benefiting from an increase in commercial forestry plantings. Source: New Zealand Herald As part of the program, Pamu Farms of New Zealand (formerly Landcorp) will plant up 1000
Continue Reading →Red Stag to invest $20m for cross-lamination plant
15 March 2018
Red Stag Group, which runs the largest sawmill in the Southern Hemisphere, plans to invest more than NZ$20 million developing a largescale cross-laminated timber plant at its wood processing site in Rotorua. Sources: NZ Advisor, Stuff NZ The plant is expected to be operational by mid-
Continue Reading →Removing logging won’t prevent Gita damage
08 March 2018
Tasman residents want stronger controls on forestry after logging waste and debris from collapsed pine forests swept around homes in Marahau and the Motueka Valley near Nelson when ex-tropical cyclone Gita hit two weeks ago. Source: Stuff NZ A petition signed by more than 3500 people
Continue Reading →Record logs go to China, with South Korea second for NZ
08 March 2018
New Zealand exported a record volume of logs to China last year as Asia’s largest economy clamped down on harvesting its own forests, and the future points to constant or better demand in coming months, according to AgriHQ’s latest forestry market report. Source: Share Cha
Continue Reading →NZ expands restrictions on foreign investment in forestry
08 March 2018
New Zealand is to expand investment restrictions in the country’s lucrative forestry sector that would require foreign investors to gain regulatory approval before receiving the rights to harvest trees. Source: Reuters Associate Finance Minister David Parker said in an emailed stateme
Continue Reading →Wall of wood to travel by train
08 March 2018
Timber trains are expected to resume running by the end of this year on part of KiwiRail’s mothballed Napier – Gisborne line in the east of North Island, the operator announced on February 26. Source: The Railway Gazette The line has been out of use for the past six years, but KiwiRai
Continue Reading →Entries open for NZ Wood-Resene Timber Design Awards
08 March 2018
Entries are being accepted for the 2018 NZ Wood-Resene Timber Design Awards, with Stage One entries closing at 5pm on Thursday 30 April. Source: Architecture Now These awards are the premier space for architects, engineers and others to profile their recent work with locally-sourced t
Continue Reading →Pine to native forestry regeneration in NZ
08 March 2018
The last pine trees have been felled in a major Hawkes Bay conservation project in New Zealand that aims to convert a 4000-hectare pine plantation back to regenerating native forest. Source: Timberbiz More than 3500 hectares of the Maungataniwha Pine Forest have now been logged since
Continue Reading →Survey says farming, forestry and fishing not positively viewed
01 March 2018
Farming’s image has taken a significant dent in Kiwis’ eyes over the last 10 years, although the public is the least positive about commercial fishing and forestry. Source: Stuff NZ The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) survey shows an almost equal unhappiness from peo
Continue Reading →Forestry concerns after cyclone Gita lashes NZ
01 March 2018
Communities near Nelson, New Zealand lashed by the tail end of tropical cyclone Gita, are demanding action on forestry practices that some residents say are dangerous and unsustainable. Source: Stuff NZ Devastation caused by the storm, which hit a week ago, has left many people on edg
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