Biodiversiy in New Zealand Plantation Forestry - an Industry Perspective

Authors: W. J. Dyck
Publication: New Zealand Journal of Forestry, Volume N.Z.J.For. 1997, Issue N.Z.J.For. 42(3) 1997, pp 6-8, Nov 1997
Publisher: New Zealand Institute of Forestry

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Abstract: New Zealand plantation forests are not biological deserts and can support considerable biodiversity in their understoreys. More importantly, as signatories to both the New Zealand Forest Accord and the Principles for Commercial Plantation Forest Management in New Zealand, most forest managers are committed to the conservation of indigenous biodiversity in reserve areas and to the conservation of threatened species that are known to occur in their plantation forests

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