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The New Zealand Forest Owners Association (NZFOA) represents the owners of New Zealand's commercial plantation forests. The association and its members are committed to the highest standards of sustainable silviculture, environmental practice and workforce safety.
Plantation forestry is science-based and highly innovative. It is New Zealand's third largest export industry and a major regional employer. It is the industry with the greatest potential to transform New Zealand into a carbon-neutral economy where all land-based industries are environmentally sustainable.
Latest news
Forest owners seek international help to fix Kyoto (06 Nov 2008)
New Zealand plantation forest owners are working closely with their overseas counterparts to make carbon forestry a more practical proposition.
A government plan to require all lumber and wood products made from kwila to carry labels verifying that they come from legally-logged forests is strongly supported by the NZ Forest Owners Association.
Radio New Zealand's Waatea News reports that the legal challenge by the Maori Council and the Federation of Maori Authorities to the Te Arawa settlement, involving a large part of the Kaingaroa forest, has come to an end.
Design awards showcase bioplastics (23 Oct 2008)
Design students from Unitec New Zealand have been awarded for household products made from bioplastics. Their challenge -- issued by Crown Research Institute Scion and the Designers Institute of New Zealand -- was to create stylish, functional products using bioplastics derived from sustainable resources.
Matariki up for sale (22 Oct 2008)
Matariki Forests has today issued an information flyer to prospective buyers of its New Zealand assets which comprise approximately 134,000 hectares of high quality Radiata Pine forests around New Zealand.Matariki Forests is owned by a consortium and managed by Rayonier New Zealand, a subsidiary of Rayonier Inc.
