Did you know?

We all know that our pine forests help with the fight against climate change because they store carbon – but did you know that the wood in our buildings continues to store carbon and protect our environment.

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.