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OPINION: Your canine crusader was truly impressed by the almost unanimous support given by politicians of all stripes in Parliament…
The Government will provide up to $1.69 million through the One Billion Trees programme to Māori landowners.
Synlait Milk is establishing an industrial-scale native plant nursery at its Dunsandel headquarters as the centrepiece of a wide-ranging environmental initiative.
Forest owners are urging people to vote for tōtara as plant of the year in a poll being conducted by the New Zealand Plant Conservation Network.
OPINION: The Hound notes that the foreign-owned and controlled NZ forestry industry is starting to feel the pressure of the growing anti-tree sentiment springing up all around the country.
About 1000 people from around rural New Zealand marched on Parliament last week to protest the Government’s policies on planting trees.
The protest group ‘50 Shades of Green’ is organising a march on Parliament this week to try and stop good farmland being covered in pine trees.
A large foreign-financed but New Zealand owned investment company has brought a big station in the Wairarapa for forestry development.
OPINION: Your canine crusader finds it ironic that the pompously self-proclaimed ‘champion’ of the provinces and ‘first citizen’ of regional NZ, Shane Jones, is single handedly destroying the regions.
A new lobby group is calling for an immediate halt to the government’s plans to plant a billon trees, saying it will damage the environment and harm New Zealand’s rural economy.