Forestry
United Future will:
- Recognise the strategic role of the forestry sector in the New Zealand economy in providing jobs, income and export earnings, while also balancing its contribution to the recreational sector
- Balance the need for a viable industry with environmental sustainability
- Ensure environmental and conservation policies keep forestry to the forefront of consideration.
- Work actively with the forestry industry to ensure their views and concerns are incorporated into new initiatives
- Work closely with the industry and other interested parties, such as recreational users, to maintain a strategic overview of issues affecting or impacting on the sector
- Provide extra research and development funding to the industry
- Permit sustainable logging of forestry resources
- Introduce intensive opossum eradication policies. The policy would include an initial bounty of $5 per opossum with an increase in the bounty as the population diminishes over five years.
- Monitor forest pests, weeds, and diseases and maintain forest soil quality
- Introduce improved fire prevention, detection and control measures.
- Ensure maximum border control is provided, including extra funding if necessary to protect forestry from pests and diseases
- Support a research and development programme in conjunction with the above
- Develop a comprehensive national database to provide information on condition, location, current sustainability of forests and recreational information.
United Future Parliamentary Office: Bowen House, Lambton Quay, Wellington
Email: Phone: (04) 471 9890
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