New Zealand has over 10 million hectares of forests, both native and exotic. Find out the tree species that make up our forests and their location. In Māori mythology, the creator of the first human also created the forests, connecting the two forever.

New Zealand's native forests have economic, environmental, cultural and recreational value. Although most of New Zealand's indigenous forests are on conservation land, a significant portion is privately-owned. Find out about indigenous forestry and how it's managed.

Forestry in New Zealand has a history starting with European settlement in the 19th century and is now an industry worth seven percent [citation needed] of annual revenue. Much of the original native forest cover was burnt off and logged, however forests have been extensively planted, predominantly with fast-growing cultivars of the Monterey Pine.

There are 6.4 million hectares of native forest in New Zealand. Find out how MPI helps owners of native forest manage and conserve their forests and what options are available for owners who don't want to manage their forests for timber.

Much of New Zealand looks like a large patchwork quilt of rural farmland. Occasionally dotted throughout the low-land agricultural landscape are areas of native podocarp-hardwood forest. These show us what much of the region would have once looked like.

Beech forests are the largest remaining indigenous forest type in New Zealand, mainly because beech forests are found on mountainous land not generally regarded as the best for agriculture. Beech trees can produce millions of seeds, and during a heavy seed fall about 50 million seeds (about 250 kg of seeds) will fall per hectare.

2018年4月10日 · New Zealand’s land mass is home to some unique forest ecosystems; including kauri forests, kahikatea swamp forests, pōhutukawa forests and mixed broadleaved forests. These support a diverse array of flora and fauna that …

New Zealand has five types of beech—red, black, hard, silver and mountain beech—and pure beech forest makes up half of the country’s native forest area. Averting a tragedy for kauri means learn­ing not just about PTA but about the eco­logical system in which it …

3 天之前 · New Zealand was the first country in the world to recognize natural features as people when a law passed in 2014 granted personhood to Te Urewera, a vast native forest on the North Island.

There is a wide variety of native trees, adapted to all the various micro-climates in New Zealand. The native bush ranges from the subtropical kauri forests of the northern North Island, temperate rainforests of the West Coast, the alpine forests of the Southern Alps and Fiordland to the coastal forests of the Abel Tasman National Park and the ...