The Native Forest Opportunity (Season 2, Episode 2)

The Native Forest Opportunity: Finding Land for New Native ForestsIn this episode, host Vincent Heeringa asks an expert panel; "Where will all the land come from?" - to meet ambitious goals to plant 300,000 more hectares of native forest by 2035, which has been proposed by the New Zealand Climate Change Commission. How Can We Scale That Goal?To provide answers and solutions, Vince is joined by Trees That Count CEO Adele Fitzpatrick, Professor David Norton from the University of Canterbury Te Kura Ngahere | School of Forestry and James Treadwell, President of the NZ Institute of Forestry and together they cover the subjects of land use models, policy, incentives and more.For more information and to explore the complete programme of work visit Pure AdvantageEnjoy.

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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/