Why this approach?

I have become enthralled by the benefits of revegetation over recent years (originating from seeing revegetation benefits in my agrarian childhood) as a result I came to see that my personal journey  included the propagation of native species for revegetation and ultimately the creation of a native plant focused nursery.

In a trip to outback Australia I further came to see the scale of the reforestation issue and the opportunity. In New Zealand it is understood that we need to re-forest (ideally in indigenous species) large tracts of land to achieve carbon sinks, manage erosion (highlighted of late) enhance water and soil quality and biodiversity.

In Australia the scale of the need (and possibility) is in New Zealand sized chunks!

Seeing the Australian approach to afforestation (something I had never considered) I realised that to gain any significant environmental impact in Aotearoa we need to create large scale planting projects and that to do that we will need to attract investors. 

Anecdotal comment

We hear a lot about revegetation projects: just in my area Watercare are planting thousands of native plants. The Maunga Authority are planting as well, but as we walk the land these all amount to tiny pockets of revegetation (which by the way are all growing well) rather than completed hillsides or lowlands.

The issue being raised here is that if we are to achieve the apparently 300,000 ha of revegetation needed to combat Climate change? Then we need to get on with it in a hurry…