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Briefing for Incoming Minister of Forestry

Environmental Defence Society
December 2023

OUR KEY ASKS FOR FORESTRY LAW AND POLICY CHANGE :

ONE Ban foreign farm to forest conversions

TWO Decouple incentives for emissions reductions and removals

THREE Limit the Permanent Forest Category to indigenous forests

FOUR Scale up a native afforestation sector using biodiversity incentives

FIVE Hold foresters to account for their environmental effects

SIX Impose a wilding pines control levy on exotic foresters