Election 2017 - Party Policies - Primary Industries and Rural Affairs - Forestry
27th May 17, 9:14am
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- Support research & development beneficial to the forestry industry, including projects on the use of wood and wood waste as an energy source.
- Require within 5 years that all wood products from indigenous forests be certified as sourced from sustainably managed forests.
- Work with industry to have at least 30% of plantation forestry in superior high value species in 10 years.
- Promote farm forestry on agricultural land, especially lower productivity, erosion prone land and sensitive catchments.
- Prioritise planting 1.2 billion trees across 1.1 million hectares of erosion-prone land around New Zealand. This will be funded via forestry payments from the Kiwi Climate Fund and by doubling funding for the existing Afforestation Grant Scheme to $40 million, to regenerate native forest.
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- Establish a New Zealand Forest Service in Rotorua to help coordinate forestry companies and manufacturers by developing a National Forestry Strategy.
- The Forest Service will also: plant commercial forests itself on Crown land and other land to provide certainty of supply to businesses investing in processing and manufacturing, and provide consultancy services for iwi and private owners to help them establish forests on their land.
- Support wood manufacturing and processing by favouring wood for new government building projects, including KiwiBuild.
- Help keep forestry in New Zealand hands by requiring the sale of logging rights on land over 50 hectares to be approved by the Overseas Investment Office for overseas purchasers.
- Encourage landowners to plant forests as carbon sinks, particularly on marginal or vulnerable land,and provide incentives and information on suitable trees to plant; and work to maximise the biofuels potential of forestry.
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- Support a proposal that will see the planting of 100,000 hectares of new forests over the next 10 years.
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- Planting up to 15,000 hectares of forestry on underutilised and erosion-prone land through the Afforestation Grants Scheme.
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- Re-establish the New Zealand Forestry Service.
- Re-establish the Crown’s direct ability to create state forests on Crown land and, with the co-operation of landowners, on private land.
- Require the cessation of deforestation trough the felling of immature trees.
- Ensure that the vast majority of our raw forest products are processed here in New Zealand.
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