Envisioning the Future (Season 2, Episode 7)

In this closing episode for O Tātou Ngāhere ~ Our Forest, host Vincent Heeringa is joined by an accomplished panel of experts featuring Dame Anne Salmond, Distinguished Professor of Māori Studies and Anthropology at the University of Auckland, impact entrepreneur Nathalie Whitaker of Toha Foundry, Peter Berg the Chair of Tānes Tree Trust and brand entrepreneur and farmer Geoff Ross of Lake Hawea Station, who is also a trustee for Pure Advantage. In this dynamic discussion the panelists compare notes on their vision for more native forests in our whenua – for all the benefits they provide. How much native forestry is enough? Where should the forests be? How should native forests be managed?All these questions and more as we envision the future and place of New Zealand's native forest.Enjoy.

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As the climate crisis deepens, we are becoming more aware of just how badly we have failed to respect our most precious asset: nature. We depend entirely on it for our food, our air, our water and our shelter, and yet, we have been neglecting and exploiting nature for decades, even centuries. Nature-based solutions (NbS) promise to redress the balance by restoring habitats and ecosystems. In doing so, we can tackle the biodiversity crisis, meet our climate targets, adapt to flood and drought and improve public health and wellbeing, all at comparably low-cost. One of New Zealand's advantages are the strengths of our natural systems including the primary sector that is at the heart of our traditional economy. But tradition has proved detrimental to the environment and throws into doubt our social license to operate which is why regenerative models agriculture and forestry underpin solutions and enable stewardship of the environment, profitability and positive social outcomes. Join us for a series of conversations with farmers, foresters, scientists, entrepreneurs and business leaders to explore the opportunities for regeneration in the New Zealand setting, the role of market mechanisms, funding models, soil science, near to nature forestry, urban agriculture and native forests, systems-thinking and more. Enjoy! https://pureadvantage.org/