Growing Common Futures

Re-Foresting New Zealand Programme

• STRAND ONE:Generating capacity for indigenous afforestation.

• STRAND TWO:New Zealand wide eco seed-sourcing register.

• STRAND THREE:Biodiversity restoration & sustainable development.

• STRAND FOUR:C-neutral farming and C-offsetting urban emissions.

• STRAND FIVE:Sustainable rural development from permanent-canopy ecological silviculture.

 

Biocapacity projects that restore the Commons
Indigenous Afforestation & Forage-Forest projects

• Nelson
• Marlborough
• Tasman
• Wairarapa
• Far North
• Wanganui
• Inventory of Elite Indigenous Timber-trees as Seed-Sources for Native Afforestation Silviculture (MAF Sustainable Farming Fund project L06/047)

 

Natural selection afforestation model

Selects quality trees from wild seedlings (for timber; future seed source; site adaptation)



 

Natural succession afforestation model

Cost-effective perpetual silviculture, yielding 5 successive harvests of canopy trees within 100 years.



 

Native Trees and shrubs at a glance