Forest Talk

Teams and individuals whose talents and toil help New Zealand’s foresters, farmers and fishers thrive, and what they produce foot it in intensely competitive international marketplaces, were honoured at the 2023 Primary Industries New Zealand Awards last week.

The awards evening is a highlight of the fifth annual PINZ Summit, with winners from 65 nominations across nine award categories announced at Tākina, Wellington’s new Convention and Exhibition ..... more

Rotorua and Scion are set to welcome one of the oldest and largest international organisations to the city in March 2024 for a conference dedicated to propagation technologies for forestry.

Founded in 1892, the International Union of Forest Research Organisations  (IUFRO) is a non-profit, non-governmental network of forest scientists and researchers committed to voluntary global cooperation and knowledge sharing in forest-related research. With ..... more

Local forestry companies and contractors from throughout the lower South Island supported the 2023 Southern Wood Council Forestry Awards run in conjunction with the country’s industry training organisation, Competenz – Te Pūkenga at the Forsyth Barr Stadium, Dunedin. 

In addition to highlighting the contribution forestry and those working within the industry make to the economic and social wellbeing of the region, the night was designed to celeb..... more

In the aftermath of Cyclone Gabrielle and in areas affected by wildfires, the opportunity for biochar to be made from problematic organic resource streams has become increasingly obvious, says Warrick Isaachsen, Chair of Biochar Network New Zealand.

In Canterbury, the Biochar Network has facilitated a workshop in collaboration with Pukaki Forestry to present the basics of biochar production and its applications,. The project aims to demonstrate alter..... more

New research is showing how effective forests are at mitigating the effects of extreme rainfall during severe weather events.

High resolution data collected from Mahurangi Forest near Auckland during the Auckland Anniversary weekend floods and Cyclone Gabrielle shows that nearly 60% of the rain that fell during those events was stored within the forest rather than flowing immediately across the ground and into waterways. The forest catchment was in e..... more

The potential overturning of the ban on genetic modification in New Zealand would add value to the products and processes in many New Zealand industries, including forestry, agriculture, marine, environmental and human and animal healthcare, says BiotechNZ’s Dr Zahra Champion. 

She says the announcement by National’s Science, Innovation, and Technology spokesperson, Judith Collins, that a National government would end New Zealand’s ban on gene e..... more