Tag: forestry
Opportunity to improve environmental outcomes from forestry largely missed
Forest & Bird has lodged a comprehensive submission on the Government’s proposed National Environmental Standard for Plantation Forestry (NESPF) today.
Kiwi group breeding drought-resistant trees
Outsmarting climate change.
Timber scam sees Congo rainforest hammered
Another reason to only buy FSC certified wood products and paper. "BBC Television's Panorama programme has spent six months tracking illegal logs from the Congo rainforest to western Europe. The investigation has revealed that new EU timber regulations are failing to stop illegal wood getting into European stores." Click here to read more.
Using waste wood from the logging industry for energy generation – is it a good idea?
The idea of using energy from wood waste is being pushed on the EECA’s Business website (EECA stands for Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority – they’re a government organisation). The claim is that using waste wood from the logging industry is a cheap way to get energy and has low emissions
Carbon credits and forestry
Reader submittedOur family has a forestry plantation set up for retirement funds, the first 'crop' is a few years from harvest and the funds made from this are for my parents' retirement and to replant the next crop for the future retirement of their children. A great idea for the family. However,
Hope for our dying kauri
New Zealand’s iconic forest giants are dying from a creeping fungal disease that leaches their lifeblood. But a breakthrough by a local biotech company means kauri may still be with us in the millennia to come. Melinda Williams reports.