MAXIMISING THE ROLE OF PLANTED FORESTS IN SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT

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Updated: 08 May 2008

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MAF Director-General Murray Sherwin (l) and Don Wijewardana
with Prime Minister Helen Clark who opened the UNFF conference

Organised in technical co-operation with:

Center for International Forestry Research

Sponsored by the governments of Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, South Africa, Switzerland, United Kingdom and the United States of America and ITTO, and with the technical co-operation of CIFOR, FAO and IUFRO.

Meeting Details

Date and Venue

24 March 2003	Orientation Field Trip from Rotorua through the heartland of New Zealand's planted forest industry
25-27 March 2003	Experts' Meeting at the Hotel Inter-Continental, Wellington
28-30 March 2003	South Island Field Trip (Optional) through vast areas of pristine alpine and forest scenery.

Purpose of Experts Meeting

In 1992 the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) recognised the significance of planted forests in sustainable forest management. Seven years later in Chile the first expert consultation on planted forests sought to assist countries to recognise and enhance the role of planted forests as an important element of sustainable forest management complementary to natural forests. In 2003 in New Zealand, countries will meet again to reflect on a decade of action, to share the lessons they have learnt, and with the express purpose of identifying those steps necessary to maximise planted forests' contribution to global sustainable forest management in the future. The meeting's objectives are:

to promote the role of planted forests and identify ways to maximise their contribution to global sustainable forest management;
to support countries in implementing actions to promote sustainable forest management;
to build on the outcomes of the first Expert Consultation on the Role of Planted Forests held in Santiago, Chile in 1999;
to build consensus through informed dialogue among major interest groups; and
to support the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) in implementing its work programme.

Participation

The Experts Meeting will be open-ended and broad-based. It is expected that participants will be drawn from countries involved in the UNFF and other international agencies developing forestry policy.

Languages

The working language of the meeting is English. French and Spanish interpretation will be available for all plenary sessions.

Meeting Outcomes

The outcomes of the meeting will be reported in English, French and Spanish, including conclusions and recommendations, to the third session of the UNFF.

Programme

The programme for the meeting has four central themes relating to the role of planted forests: benefits, challenges, ensuring sustainable management and facilitation. These four topic areas will be considered within the context of the three pillars of sustainable development - economic, environmental and social dimensions. These themes recognise the multiple benefits of planted forests, but also acknowledge the 'challenges' and ways to facilitate implementing sustainable forest management. It is recognised that most of the issues to be discussed have multiple dimensions and that there are major overlaps.

Each session will open with four presentations that focus on the different aspects of the theme. Following discussion, attendees will break into four working groups and the outcomes of the ensuing discussions will be reported to the meeting. These findings will be integrated into the final report to be tabled at UNFF3.

The draft programme for the Meeting is as follows:

(See the Conference Papers page for a complete list of papers).

Tuesday 25 March

Opening Ceremony	1. Benefits

Welcome by the Right Honourable Helen Clark Prime Minister of New Zealand Keynote papers:	Overview Benefits of Planted Forests: Social, Ecological and Economic Bill Dyck, New Zealand
Conference Chairman Murray Sherwin, Director-General NZ Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry	The Role of Planted Forests in Forest Landscape Restoration Stewart Maginnis, The World Conservation Union (IUCN)
Introduction, Context and Logistics Professor Julian Evans University of London	Changing Needs, Changing Forests: The UK Experience Tim Rollinson, British Forestry Commission
The World's Most Sustainable Raw Material Dr Wink Sutton, New Zealand	Canada - A Land of Plantations? Jacques Carette, Canadian Forest Service
Restoring the Forests ? Dr David Victor , Stanford University, Energy, International Environmental and Sustainable Development Policy	Maori and Sustainable Forests George Asher - Federation of Maori Authorities
WWF Vision for Planted Forests Dr Chris Elliot, Director Forests For Life Programme, WWF International:	Break into Working Groups
Panel Discussion	Report Back to Plenary on Group Discussions

Wednesday 26 March
2. Challenges	3. Ensuring SFM

Overview: Challenges to Enhancing the contributions of Planted Forests to SFM Prof Peter Kanowski Australian National University	Overview: Ensuring Sustainable Forest Management Guy Salmon, New Zealand Ecological Foundation
Planted Forests and Biodiversity Carnus, Parrotta and Brockerhoff International Union of Forest Research Organisations	Eco certification of New Zealand Plantation Forestry - report a Grant Rosoman, Greenpeace and Eco certification of New Zealand Plantation Forestry report b Murray Parrish, Carter Holt Harvey Ltd
Maximising the Role of Planted Forests in Sustaninable Forest Management Peter Lawrence, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Australia (AFFA)	A Case Study from South Africa on Ensuring SFM of Planted Forests Winston Smit, Mike Pitcher, Department of Water, Agriculture and Forestry
	The Role of Agro Forestry Ruak, Schoeneberger & Nair - USDA
A Forest Industry Approach to Sustainable Forest Management Devon McLean, Chairman, New Zealand Forest Industries Council	Agro Forestry is a Form of SFM: Lessons from South East Asia: Chris Fay, International Centre for Research in Agroforestry, SEA
Discussion	Discussion
Break into Working Groups	Break into Working Groups
Report Back to Plenary on Group Discussions	Report Back to Plenary on Group Discussions

Thursday 27 March
4.Facilitation	5. Conclusions and Recommendations

Overview: (Malysia)	Presentation of Final Report
FAO Review of Trade in SFM, Alistair Sarre, ITTO	Discussion on Final Report
The Role of Incentives (Thomas Enters, Patrick Durst & Chris Brown, FAO)	Closure of Meeting
Chile's Experience in Facilitation Carlos Weber & Jose Antonio Prada, Chile	Closure of Meeting
Definitions Related to Planted Forests - Jim Carle FAO
Discussion
Work Group
Report Back to Plenary on Group Discussions

As well as the programme above some side events and functions are also being organised.

Fieldtrips

Two field trips are planned. The first is to Rotorua on 24 March 2003. This field trip introduces the New Zealand planted forest estate. Rotorua is located in the middle of the North Island and is New Zealand's planted forestry heartland. In Rotorua we will visit perhaps the world's largest research facility on planted forests, see silviculture and logging operations, visit a farm forestry property and observe end uses for Pinus Radiata. This fieldtrip will provide a useful background to the meeting to be held in Wellington immediately after.

The second field trip takes place in the South Island on 28-30 March 2003 and follows the three-day meeting in Wellington. The South Island fieldtrip is optional, with a total cost of US$375. We will follow a loop circuit from Christchurch in the East to Greymouth in the West and then back to Christchurch. In the South Island we will visit indigenous forests, a planted forest managed in a high use public recreation area, have a dip in a thermal pool and view spectacular scenery. We will overnight in Hanmer (North of Christchurch on the East Coast) and Greymouth (West Coast of the South Island).

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