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2.3 Controls on Harvesting and Sale of Indigenous Timber
Authors: A D Griffiths, Alastair KernahanPublication: NZIF Forestry Handbook, Volume Section 2 – Indigenous forests, pp 3, Dec 2023
Publisher: New Zealand Institute of Forestry
Abstract: This article is a summary of the provisions in the Forests Amendment Act 1993 (the Act). For a complete understanding it should be read in conjunction with the Act. The Act has as its purpose: "The promotion of sustainable management of indigenous forests". "The management of an area of indigenous forest land in a way that maintains the ability of the forest growing on that land to continue to provide a full range of products and amenities in perpetuity while retaining the forest's natural values". There are approximately 1 million hectares of privately owned indigenous forest in New Zealand, of which perhaps 25% may be capable of sustaining an ongoing production of a relatively small quantity of indigenous timber. The Act does not cover all indigenous forest land. Those areas not covered by the Act are: land reserved under the South Island Landless Natives Act (SILNA) 1906 and still under Maori ownership; planted indigenous forest; and land held or administered by the Department of Conservation (DOC) under the Conservation Act 1987.