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Foresters like the look of Billion Trees scheme26 Feb 18 - Forest owners say they are starting to think the Government is serious about forestry. |
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OIO cutting rights role wrong move, say foresters23 Jan 18 - Giving the Overseas Investment Office approval of the sale of forestry cutting rights will jeopardise the Government’s billion trees plan, forest owners say. |
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Mixed forests may not resist climate change5 Dec 17 - Researchers have confirmed once again that a good forest is a mixed forest, a natural one, with a diversity of species. |
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AirNZ eyes paying landowners to plant trees22 Nov 17 - Air New Zealand wants to set up a private afforestation scheme under the Emissions Trading Scheme to offset some of its greenhouse gas emissions. |
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TREE TALK: Why we need a better forest philosophy9 Nov 17 - On November 6, 1217, Henry III’s Charter of the Forest gave ordinary English people back their traditional rights to use royal hunting grounds for livestock grazing and collecting firewood. |
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Forests can bring 1.5deg Paris target closer3 Nov 17 - Protecting the world’s forests could achieve a quarter of the greenhouse gas emissions cuts needed to meet the 1.5°C Paris target, scientists say. |
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Government planting target OK, say forest owners27 Oct 17 - The Government’s plan to plant an extra 50,000 hectares of new forest a year is “optimistic but achievable”, say forest owners. |
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High land prices key blocker to forest planting7 Sep 17 - New Zealand won’t get more carbon-sequestering forests until land prices fall. |
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Greens want high-end wood products industry5 Sep 17 - The Green Party wants a regional research institute to develop high-value wood products as part of a strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. |
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Foresters hope next government will vote for trees31 Aug 17 - Forest owners are hoping next month’s general election will lead to more forestry-friendly government policies – especially if New Zealand First is in the driving seat. |
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Fund wants to see 5283ha of new forest10 Aug 17 - The Government’s reinstated Afforestation Grants Scheme will fund 5283 hectares of new forest this year. |
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Foresters greet environmental standards move8 Aug 17 - The introduction of a national environmental standard for plantation forestry is vitally needed, forest owners say. |
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Using forests to manage carbon still a heated debate4 Aug 17 - The best way of managing trees and forests for climate change and accounting for contributions of forests and forestry activities in carbon budgets remains hotly contested. |
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PICKY PROBLEM: What makes a carbon forest?3 Aug 17 - The regeneration of vast areas of carbon-storing native forests is being hampered by “pickiness” over the definition of carbon forests. |
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Foresters fine, but the ETS has some problems2 Aug 17 - The forestry sector has behaved rationally in response to the Emissions Trading Scheme - but the scheme itself hasn’t always been rational, a new analysis shows. |
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ETS changes of little help, say foresters1 Aug 17 - The Government’s latest changes to the Emissions Trading Scheme will do nothing to get more trees in the ground, the forestry sector says. |
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It pays off to pay landowners to keep trees25 Jul 17 - Paying landowners not to cut down trees is cheaper than the carbon-related costs the destruction of the forests would cause, new research shows. |
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Scientists fear EU rules will hide forest carbon loss20 Jun 17 - Leading researchers have condemned attempts to change the way carbon from trees will be counted in Europe. |
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