Election 2020 - Party Policies - Primary Industries and Rural Affairs - Forestry
25th Jul 20, 5:56am
by
Forestry
Click here to return to the policy homepage.
- Protect, maintain, enhance and increase our indigenous forests.
- Significantly expand protection of forests and plantation forests in diversity of species, and manage and use them sustainably.
- Retain and expand government ownership of state forests, unless they are required for treaty settlements.
- Ensure that all timber and other wood products (both imported and domestic) used or sold in New Zealand are sourced from legal sustainably certified forests.
- Read more here and here.
Not yet available on their website.
Not yet available on their website.
- Continue to support and fund the One Billion Trees programme
- Ensure that New Zealand has the appropriate amount of nurseries to promote the One Billion Tree programme
- Increase the use of mapping technology so that low value, low productive land is prioritised in planting efforts
- Support biodiversity by encouraging native tree planting targets through methods such as native tree nurseries
- Properly fund research to counter bio-security threats such as Kauri die-back and Myrtle Rust
- Investigate the feasibility of a ‘New Zealand Native Tree Seed Bank’ and the greater use of ‘Native Tree Sanctuaries’
- Continue to support Wood First initiatives as a way to further encourage the use of New Zealand wood in government and local government procurement
- Further promote training and pathways for careers in forestry through trades training, programmes, and scholarships
- Read more here.
 |
  |
 |
1 Comments
All forests need to be managed. Indigenous forests should be protected the question is did QE2 covenants do as good a job as some law? What thought has gone into looking at how fragments of forest can be reconnected to form larger units that could provide habitat for species that need larger areas and for isolated populations to interbreed?
We welcome your comments below. If you are not already registered, please register to comment.
Remember we welcome robust, respectful and insightful debate. We don't welcome abusive or defamatory comments and will de-register those repeatedly making such comments. Our current comment policy is here.