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Jim Anderton and David Parker say Ngati Porou venture is what New Zealand needs

The National Party have responded to the government's climate change initiatives announced today with an all too familiar hysterical response

The government released today the discussion document Sustainable Land Management and Climate Change, which outlines policy options to address the risks and opportunities of climate change in the land management sectors

With my colleague Hon Annette King, Minister of Transport, I am very happy to announce that this government has agreed to meeting $2.475 million towards the Hirini St port bypass road

Lynchpin port bypass road vital for forestry in Gisborne

We have a moral and environmental obligation to help address this serious global problem

Jim Anderton called for New Zealand's "wood culture" to be revitalised and enhanced, at FICA's conference in Rotorua

We need to create a new tradition for forestry, one that is not based on boom and bust

Jim Anderton released the review report of the East Coast Forestry Project (ECFP) today

The inaugural meeting signalled a very positive beginning for managing a sustainable timber industry in some privately-owned New Zealand forests

In some ways, the forestry industry is in the front line of the efforts to transform New Zealand's economy

The Pine Manufacturers Association conference is focussed on making a paradigm shift in their industry

The Labour-Progressive government confirmed today that is proceeding with the Permanent Forestry Sink Initiative

Jim Anderton returned to the RADI Centre in Rotorua today to celebrate the inaugural graduation ceremony

The RADI Centre has reached an important milestone. The first students have graduated.

The Minister of Forestry, Jim Anderton, has welcomed a pamphlet produced by the forestry industry suggesting ideas for climate change policy.

The establishment of the Eastern Wood Council is a positive step to unleash the potential of the industry with resulting major benefits for the regional economy, Forestry minister Jim Anderton said today.

Acknowledgments:
Mayor Meng Foon,
Julian Kohn (chair of the Eastern Wood Council)
Peter Farley
Matt Todd
Sheldon Drummond

Forests – particularly commercial forests –greatly help New Zealand absorb greenhouse gas emissions and lessen the effects of climate change

Jim Anderton is opening the University of Canterbury's biomass gasifier today.

With the energy challenges New Zealand has to meet in the future, there are some hard issues everyone agrees we need to confront, said Jim Anderton at the opening of the University of Canterbury's 100kW laboratory - scale gasification rig

The opening Otago's newest sawmill is a vote of confidence for the forestry industry

The opening Otago's newest sawmill is a vote of confidence for the forestry industry