We are facing a global climate crisis – demanding effective, timely and lasting action for our people, for the planet, and for the future.
Now, more than ever, businesses and organisations are committed to making a real and measurable difference. They are taking steps to actively manage their own unavoidable emissions – leading the fight against climate change by reducing their impacts while simultaneously enhancing and sustaining local environments and communities.
At the forefront of this global movement, NZ Forest Restoration is focused on targeted, transparent, and verified nature-based solutions, generating genuine carbon removals.
Designed to the highest international standards and developed in concert with local scientists, experts, and communities, our projects represent a permanent and large-scale response to the immediate needs of the climate crisis.
NZ Forest Restoration’s programme is also developed to deliver transformational value to local communities – creating jobs and stimulating climate investment – while supporting increased biodiversity, improvements in soil and water quality, and promoting climate resilience.
Project standards
Our projects are developed to the highest international standards.
NZ Forest Restoration’s projects are designed to be Verra Certified and consistent with ICVCM Core Carbon Principles. Read more about our standards.
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How we work
We’re working in harmony with nature to address the climate emergency and deliver real, measurable results.
Find out more about our science-led approach to forest restoration and biodiversity enhancement, and our approach to delivering success at scale on the ground.
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Using the value from carbon removals to regenerate New Zealand’s biodiverse, native environments. Join an expert partner committed to the long-term future of the project, their community, and the planet.
Pest Animals removed from Project Area to date
Total Project Area
(2,543.72 ha)
Project Area in Indigenous Forest
(2,064.13 ha)
Project Area in Exotic Forest
Project Area planted in riparian zones – Waterways Protected.
47% of Project Area planted in high erosion prone soils.
(Permanent forests help prevent soil erosion)
We're restoring New Zealand's biodiverse native environments
Our Approach
40.9006° S / 174.8860° E
New Zealand / South Pacific Ocean
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Step inside our forests
Here is our plot programme at Otunui forest – one of the first forests in the NZ Forest Restoration programme.
Projects
Shaping tomorrow's forests
NZ Forest Restoration is working with a range of leading experts to introduce an exciting range of nature-based solutions.
Each project is distinct in character – protecting existing forests and restoring them to biodiverse native environments. However, each project is built on the same integral values, providing high quality, transparent, verified and genuine nature-based carbon removals. The establishment of new forests that will ultimately become native rapidly and efficiently stores carbon, all while working with local indigenous people on projects that protect their forest estates and provide new sources of revenue and employment.
Project One
Restore Improved Forest Management
Managing exotic plantation forests – destined for logging – and restoring them to permanent, biodiversity-rich, indigenous forests.