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Recloaking Papatuanuku

Our friends at Pure Advantage have launched an exciting new campaign aimed at ‘recloaking Papatuanuku’.

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Posted: 8 December 2023

New Project: Close-to-nature continuous cover forestry project

Ian Barton talking about CCF management in NZ. Photo: Ian Brennan

CCF with radiata pine at Woodside in Oxford - Image supplied by Mark Bloomberg.

Close-to-nature continuous cover forestry project

Tāne’s Tree Trust has partnered with The Connective, Nga Pou a Tane and Scion, on a collaborative project examining business models for CCF in Aotearoa, NZ. This one year project is co funded by Te Uru Rākau, New Zealand Forest Service, and started mid 2023.

The project will:

• Identify and engage NZ-based stakeholders to understand experiences, needs, challenges and aspirations
• Identify and analyse research on international business cases, plus enabling markets and policy relevant to the NZ-context
• Develop high-level business CCF cases for NZ – including CCF with exotic, native, and mixed species forests
• Produce a summary report outlining key findings and recommendations, plus a high-level plan to implement trials

This project is expected to help guide policy-makers and target future research work on the topic.

WATCH THE ONLINE CCF WORKSHOPS!

A series of six online wananga (workshops) were held in August and September, each 90 minutes long. These confirmed not just significant interest in the topic of CCF in NZ, but also attracted international speakers and participants. They have also helped create a valuable network of stakeholders.

Recordings of the online workshop sessions can be viewed from the project website: https://www.continuouscoverforestry.com/

TTT Contacts for this project

• Paul Quinlan, Trustee, Tāne’s Tree Trust
• TTT Executive Officer: [Enable JavaScript to view protected content]

Posted: 2 November 2023

September Newsletter

Our latest newsletter is now available. We look at the benefits of predator control, a recent Continuing Professional Development conference and we take a look at Cassie’s Farm. Also we have details of our upcoming AGM. Click here to view:

https://www.tanestrees.org.nz/site/assets/files/1067/ttt_newsletter_september_2023.pdf

Posted: 21 September 2023

Northern Tōtara Working Group Newsletter

The latest Northland Tōtara Working Group newsletter is here. This issue focuses on what the project timber has been used for. Click here to read.

Posted: 13 September 2023

Submission for Proposals to redesign the permanent forest category in the NZ ETS Scheme

Tāne’s Tree Trust has made a submission to the ETS Forestry Policy group at MPI on the proposals to redesign the permanent forestry category. Read our submission here.

Posted: 28 August 2023