Did you know?

The clever kārearea has discovered that the places where pine trees have been harvested make a perfect home to raise its babies.

It's the Climate Change Commission's job to give advice to the government on how we can meet our climate goals – and our forests have a big role to play.

We also grow Douglas-fir, Eucalypts and a few other exotic species.

In most countries around the world, indigenous trees are also the trees that are harvested for their wood. In New Zealand we do things a bit differently.

Over 20 years, one pine tree can absorb the greenhouse gas emissions that come from one sheep over its lifetime.

When our logs arrive at their destination – sometimes across the other side of the world – every single one of them is tagged with information about where they come from.

Forestry is one of our biggest export earners – you can find New Zealand timber in furniture, buildings and many many other uses all over the world.

Before humans arrived in New Zealand nearly 80% of New Zealand was covered in forests – only the mountains and the really dry parts of Central Otago didn't have forests on them.