Election year:
2023
Political party:
Green Party
Associated politicians:
Policy:
Foresty
- Increase a focus on managing the native forests better by protecting them from pests, monitoring and pruning them for better growth, and selectively harvesting them sustainably for NZ buildings, furniture, carving etc.
- Provide greater opportunities for communities to create new areas of woodlots anf forest reserves for soil and water conservation, recreation and biodiversity.
- Work with industry to have at least 30% of the plantation forestry portfolio in superior high value species.
- Enable developing countries to protect their forests by actively advocating, in international forums on forestry and on climate change, for the establishment of a compensation and development fund, resourced by developed countries.
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