Our forests and other land areas may be sucking up to 60 per cent more carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere than previously thought and we can likely thank our native trees for much of it.

It is an uncontroversial fact that the state of the country's freshwater resources has for decades been moving towards ecological collapse.

An elderly man who was missing in a forest overnight near Wanganui has been found safe and well.

Te Whanau-a-Apanui land trustees have set up a forest road engineering company on the East Cape, employing twenty locals, including ex-pats. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

The Government has again been accused of cheating to meet its climate-change commitments; this time around forestry accounting rules.

The United States and Canada were New Zealand's biggest foreign investors over the last three years.

A_JS311016NADCHPR226.JPGA specialist cliff rescue team recovered the bodies of two men killed in a helicopter crash into dense bush

The Northland forest in which a helicopter crashed, killing two people, is so dense no wreckage was visible even from the air soon after the accident.

The Northland forest in which a helicopter crashed, killing two people, is so dense no wreckage was visible even from the air soon

The Napier-Wairoa rail line is set to reopen, with an agreement between KiwiRail and Napier Port being signed today.

KiwiRail has slashed its freight service on the Northland-Auckland line by half, but says the volume of freight transported will essentially

We ask the New Zealand First leader if he's being a party pooper and a wet blanket over the government's aspirational goal of a predator-free New Zealand by 2050.

Export log prices slip to a seven-month low amid a stronger Kiwi dollar and weaker markets.

The employers of a Taranaki forestry worker who died after an 800kg log fell on him have been ordered to pay more than $97,000 in reparation to his widow.

New Zealand urgently needs to plant huge areas of trees to help combat climate change and boost a green economy, a business think-tank says.

The forestry worker killed in northern Hawke's Bay yesterday has been named.

NZ forest harvest volumes fell last year for the first time in seven years as uncertainty about future prices prompted plantation owners to hold back from felling their trees.

The forestry sector is signing up to a new safety agreement with the Government, unions, WorkSafe and the ACC.

Greenheart Group has signed a conditional deal to buy Northland Forest Managers (1995) for $1.5 million.

About half the 15,000 tree species in the Amazon - the world's most diverse forest - are threatened by deforestation, an international study says.

Meet a group of forestry veterans turning fir trees into essential oils for export.

A forestry contractor acquitted of the manslaughter of a young worker crushed to death by a falling tree has been ordered to pay reparation to the man's family.

Forestry workers in the thick of a 1080 drop on Auckland's Hunua Ranges say bait laced with the poison fell so close they could smell it.

The parents of a young forestry worker killed when a tree fell on him are calling for an overhaul in the way workplace incidents are investigated.

The forestry contractor acquitted of the manslaughter of a young worker crushed to death by a falling tree still faces sentence for breaching health and safety legislation.

New Zealand commodity prices fell for a fifth straight month in August, led by a decline in dairy prices to their lowest level in 11 years.

Prosecuting the boss of a forestry company for the manslaughter of a young worker killed by a falling tree has as much to do with politics as evidence, a court has heard.

A forestry company boss is today on trial for the manslaughter of a young worker killed by a falling tree in a case the defence says has political undertones.

Editorial: The resource is not being used as it should be, and stricter policing of the current trade will not, in itself, change that markedly.