Wānanga Series

Close-to-Nature Continuous Cover Forestry Business Models

Nau Mai, Haere Mai

Please join us to wānanga on Close-to-Nature Continuous Cover Forestry for Aotearoa New Zealand.

 Building collective knowledge and understanding of business models and wider systems enablers to support a multi-kaupapa, place-based and regenerative forestry sector.

Te Whakakitenga

Vision

Aotearoa Land of the Long White Cloud is a single interconnected and living system where mauri, essence of life, cycles universally through atmosphere, land, water and forests recharging our past, present, and future generations.

Building on the global lineage of continuous cover and ecosystem-centric forestry practices, we seek to bring together diverse knowledge holders to reimagine the potential of forestry in Aotearoa.

The third generation of cultivated forests across these lands will be grounded in te ao Māori, the world of Māori, and the intergenerational responsibility of tangata whenua, People-of-the-Land.

Forestry is nature and place-based, multi-use and regenerative.

The Workshops

Coppice, Carbon and Catastrophe:

The joy and pain of managing for CCF in our times, a conversation between Bill Mason of the Continuous Cover Forestry Group and Arne Pommerening is a professor at the Department of Forest Ecology and Management of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) at Umeå in Northern Sweden.

1: Opening Session - Setting the scene for transforming forestry in Aotearoa

Friday 25 August, 7-8:30am NZT. Ian Short (facilitator)

  • • Mihi welcome, introductions 

    • Background, purpose and kaupapa to developing business models for continuous cover forestry

    • Speakers: Ernest Morton (Ngā Pou a Tāne), Peter Berg (Tane’s Tree Trust), Tim Payn (Scion)

2: Historical and contemporary context influences on continuous cover forestry

Friday 1 September, 7-8:30am NZT. Ramona Radford (facilitator)

  • • “Ka muri, ka mua,” walking backwards into the future, understanding where we’ve been to move ahead

    • Speakers: Roger Dungan (former Lead Advisor for New Zealand climate change plans to UN), Justice Hetaraka (Te Taumata Whakapūmau Wai262), and Kit Richards (NZIF Forestry Consultant)

3: International practice models

Friday 8 September, 7-8:30am NZT. Tim Payn (facilitator)

  • • International CCF practice models for continuous cover forestry

    • Speakers from the Board of Pro Silva Europe: Prof Jurij Diaci (Silviculture Department of Forestry, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) and Dr Eckart Senitza (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna) (TBC)

    • Facilitated discussion on opportunities and challenges to implementing international CCF practice models in Aotearoa

4: Wider systems enablers for continuous cover forestry business models

Friday 15 September, 7-8:30am NZT. Tim Payn (facilitator)

  • • Wider systems enablers, including policy, culture and market mechanisms, that support continuous cover forestry business models internationally

    • Speakers: Paddy Purser (Pro Silva Ireland), Manus Crowley (Enfor), and Robert Perschel (New England Forestry) 

    • Facilitated discussion – applying these concepts in Aotearoa New Zealand

5: Enabling continuous cover forestry innovation and practice excellence in Aotearoa 

Thursday 21 September, 1-2:30pm NZT. Paul Quinlan (facilitator)

  • • CCF options and practice for Aotearoa New Zealand

    • Speakers: John Foppert (Paul Smith College, New York), Mark Bloomberg (Canterbury University, Kura Ngahere) TBC, John Wardle (Farm Forestry Association, Woodside Forest) TBC, Jon Dronfield (Tane’s Tree Trust, Seymour Forestry, Forever Beech) TBC, Ramona Radford (Ngā Pou a Tāne)

6: Priorities and next steps

Thursday 28 September, 1-2:30pm NZT. Ian Short (facilitator)

  • • Discussion session to identify key opportunities for Aotearoa New Zealand, including business models, wider systems enablers and barriers to address, and next steps

Outcomes

To bring together a diverse group of knowledge holders and decision-makers in the forestry community to build collective knowledge and agreement on:

  1. Continuous cover forestry business models for mixed, exotic and native forestry –capable of multiple-uses and generating multiple values, including wealth, wellbeing, ecosystem health and long-term carbon storage

  2. Wider systems enablers and barriers to forestry sector transition in Aotearoa

  3. Identification of priority continuous cover forestry business models and wider systems enablers to action

Our Guiding Principles

  • Mātauranga Māori and Rangatiratanga to inform all outcomes, especially for native species

  • Understanding the past to inform how we move forward

  • Recognising land as a taonga – to be protected and regenerated for future generations

  • Place-based, multi-use, diverse and holistic forested landscapes

  • Climate-smart forestry as a major climate solution

  • Open mindedness, mutual respect and benefits, and working collaboratively towards the shared vision and outcomes

  • Bold leadership and action