Establishing Native Forests at Scale programme

What happened

CERF-funded MPI programme supporting large-scale native forest establishment and restoration on private and Māori land (part of broader land-sector climate and biodiversity policy).

Why it matters

Supports native afforestation with carbon sequestration and biodiversity co-benefits.

Impact assessment

Positive land-sector programme; later cut by successor govt (NC-012).

Attribution

primary (high confidence) -Labour

Budget 2022 CERF allocation; Forestry Minister.

Coalition period: Labour-led government (Greens confidence & supply) (17 October 2020 - 26 November 2023)

Categories

Sources

• Forest & Bird - Forest restoration in Budget 2022
• Beehive - Wellbeing Budget 2022 Speech (native forests)