AgribusinessDaera began sending £15m of Sustainable Farming Investment Scheme offers on 8 October, part of £40m over three to four years, as farmers are reminded the Forest Expansion Scheme closes on 19 October.
The fifth meeting of the cell formed to deliver the five-year, 250 million tree planting pledge discussed care of saplings after planting, monitoring of survival rates and plans for green employment.
EnvironmentThirty years after a Victorian forestry experiment was abandoned, heavily thinned mountain ash stands hold trees 20% larger than untouched forest and as much carbon or more.
EnvironmentThe Comptroller and Auditor General says planting has fallen far short every year since 2015, with 2,527 hectares planted in 2025 against an 8,000-hectare target, despite about €946 million spent on forestry schemes.
The environment ministry has begun planting and waste removal in the off-season; locals say at least 2,000 of about 2,200 families are now unemployed.
EnvironmentForestry Commission chair Baroness Young told the APF Show that multi-purpose forestry is hard but the answer is more planting across timber, carbon and biodiversity.
A joint afforestation drive by Khulna City Corporation and bKash will plant a real tree for every virtual sapling that customers grow in the app with 'green points' earned on digital transactions.
A joint afforestation programme of Khulna City Corporation and bKash opened at the city's Solar Park and Linear Park, with 25,000 trees to be planted in phases.
EnvironmentDoug Leeder, appointed by New Zealand's forestry minister to reset relations in Gisborne, delivered his first report and said foresters accept some post-Cyclone Bola plantations are in the wrong place.
The forest department is raising 98 rare and endangered native tree species in Rangamati and Khagrachhari; 55 species are protected under the 2012 law.
Trial plantings of baen (Avicennia) mangroves by the NGO CODEC in the Badarkhali channel and Rampura mouza of Chakaria, Cox's Bazar, are surviving well; experts say the near-vanished forest can return only if tidal flow, blocked by shrimp-farm embankments, is restored and three other barriers are re
The Central Otago Wilding Pines Group says relying on foresters' goodwill to stop seed spreading beyond their boundaries has failed, as MPI consults on a 20-year strategy that warns unmanaged infestations could cover a quarter of New Zealand within 30 years and cost at least $4.6 billion over 50.
The private-sector-backed programme, running since 1980, grows fruit, timber and medicinal seedlings in 19 nurseries, follows a 70:30 species mix that favours native and medicinal trees, and has set up 119 medicinal plant gardens.
