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Off grid and farming carbon
Former Wellington mayor Celia Wade-Brown lives in a tiny off-grid house and regenerates native forest on a former sheep and beef farm on the flanks of the Tararua mountain range. The carbon… Audio
Rugged farmland reverting back to bush
700 hectares of hill country on Nigel and Cathy Graham's Kaikoura farm is being retired. Income from honey and carbon credits are repacing livestock on the regenerating land. The couple have also… Audio
From pasture to biodiversity on a Whanganui farm
Look underneath and you'll know what's right for the land, says forest and soil consultant Ian Moore. He's hanging up his workboots and now has more time to spend nurturing stands of harakeke… Video, Audio
The Living Laboratories project
The Auckland University of Technology Living Laboratories project is all about investigating how best to grow back native forest. At Pourewa creek, this collaboration between AUT and Ngāti Whātua… Audio
Our Changing World - Researching native regeneration
The Auckland University of Technology Living Laboratories project team are running planting experiments to investigate how best to restore native forests. Audio
Indigenous Forest and Carbon
Two retired Auckland University lecturers put the case for correctly acknowledging the role native trees can play in carbon sequestration. Audio
Pine trees to pay for agricultural emission bills
Northland farmer Roger Ludbrook is planting pine trees and reducing stock numbers so he can pay for greenhouse gas emission bills with carbon credits from his trees. Audio
Bird highway takes flight
A bird highway is taking shape across the south of the North Island. Farmers and landowners are getting in behind the Tonganui Corridor - a project to link up pockets of old forest with new plantings… Audio
'Groundswell' exposes rural / urban divide in media
At the biggest national protest for years last week, farmers made it clear they're unhappy with the government and they feel unloved by the country - and the media. The media coverage also revealed a… Audio
Farmers get their way on agricultural emissions
A sector-led approach to emissions prices has been announced at Parliament. Through a joint action plan, separate from New Zealand's Emissions Trading Scheme, farmers and growers will calculate their… Audio
Forests for Farmers
The Forest Owners Association says there are terrific opportunities for farmers to get into forestry now the government's announced an ambitious scheme to plant an extra billion trees in the next… Audio
ETS needs tweaking to meet climate change commitments
The Government says the Emissions Trading Scheme will have to be tweaked if New Zealand is to meet its climate change targets. Audio
Treasury suggests agriculture could be included in ETS
The Treasury says the Government faces big bills in the future through the Emissions Trading Scheme, and suggests one solution could be to make agriculture start paying its way. Audio
David Hall - Planting for Our Future
New Zealand lost close to 140,000 hectares of forest between 2001 and 2014 according to World Forest Watch. The bulk of that loss was made up of forestry plantations being harvested and not replanted… Audio
Is it time to add agriculture to NZ's ETS?
New Zealand is becoming a laggard on climate change and needs to include agriculture in the Emissions Trading Scheme, an agri-business expert says. Audio
Greens welcoming Westpac's report on Paris Agreement
One of the country's biggest banks says the Government's decision to go easy on farming's greenhouse gas emissions will cost the country dearly. Audio
Cost of carbon going up
The cost of pouring greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere has reached the highest level in four years.
Seth Shostak - Life in Space
Senior astronomer and Director of the Center for SETI Research at the SETI Institute, Mountain View, California. Seth Shostak is coming to New Zealand as a guest speaker at the Aoraki Mackenzie… Audio
Govt's sustainable forestry claims challenged
The Farm Forestry Association is challenging what the government calls New Zealand's 'sustainable forestry story'.
Calls for the government to take forestry seriously
Is the government taking the forestry industry seriously enough? The Forestry Institute says keeping agriculture out of the Emissions Trading Scheme has resulted in unintended subsidies to farming -… Audio