Learn more about our wonderful trustee, Rob McGowan (also known as Pā Rōpata) who has spent a lifetime working to make the world a better place.
Ka ora te whenua, ka ora te tāngata.
When the land is well, the people are well.
https://www.canopy.govt.nz/forestry-resources/healing-the-land-through-rongoa-and-native-trees
Fabulous work, Pā!
Posted: 30 March 2026
We have a new collaborative project involving members of the Northland Tōtara Working Group, coordinating a functional supply chain directly between several landowners and buyers - including a New Zealand-based furniture manufacturer. Read all about this exciting new project here.
Posted: 23 March 2026
We’re excited to release our ‘Transitioning Exotic Forest to Native - Preliminary Guidelines for Transition’. Our thanks to MPI and forestry partners who have supported this project so far. Guidance is based on our research to date and will be updated at the end of the project with results from our trials. The guidelines can be found here under Project Reports.
They include information on Factors affecting native understorey regeneration, General management considerations, Active management options and Monitoring.
Posted: 10 March 2026
We are pleased to share a recently published paper in the NZ Journal of Forestry that comes from our ‘Transitioning exotic forest to native’ project. This paper describes the understory characteristics found under pine timber plantations around NZ. It helps answer the question of ‘what is already existing under pine stands managed for timber?’ Other project research is focusing on helping answer the question of what management intervention is needed to help advance a pine to native transition?
Carbon and biodiversity in the understory vegetation of New Zealand’s exotic tree plantations by Mark Kimberley, Meg Graeme and David Bergin, is available on our website here. Scroll down to ‘Published Papers’.
First published in the NZ Journal of Forestry, February 2026, Vol. 70, No. 4, pp. 23-29
Posted: 9 February 2026
Our latest newsletter is available now. in this issue we look at woolly nightshade and myrtle rust, plus include a short summary of our Ian Barton Symposium. Click here to read.
Posted: 3 February 2026
