NZ forest description stats published

Friday 11 Feb 2022

 
The just released year to 1 April 2021 NEFD report records New Zealand’s plantation forest estate area is 1.74 million hectares. This is the largest the estate has been since 1.75 million hectares in 2009. Contributing to this expansion were an additional 34,000 hectares of new planting in 2020 and a revised addition of another 52,000 hectares in calculations for that year.

New Zealand’s net stocked planted production forest covered an estimated 1.739 million hectares as at 1 April 2021.

The total planted forest standing volume was estimated to be 532 million cubic metres with an average age (area weighted) of 18.3 years.

The provisional new planting estimate for the year ending 31 December 2020 is 34,000 hectares. This number may be revised in the 2022 NEFD.

The previously published 2020 forest area and standing volume statistics have been revised upward by 52,000 hectares.

The decrease in area as age increases beyond 28 years indicates harvesting. Of particular note is the large area of forest between 23 to 26 years old, planted between 1995 and 1998. This forest has begun reaching harvest age.

The full NEFD report is available to download here.

Source Forest Owners Association

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