
Improving our environmental performance across the forest industry brings both challenges and rewards. We seek to facilitate speakers and delegates to share successes and learnings among peers across a range of forest management companies for large and small forest estates.
Environmental Forestry 2023
Event Summary
This event brought together over 150 environmental, operations, technical and management representatives from the forest industry, and local and central government. It was designed for those with boots on the ground, planning operations, ensuring compliance and creating policy.
The programme delivered a range of case studies on improving outcomes for a diverse range of environmental objectives. It is not just about managing production forestry operations, but bringing a range of views together for environmental forestry practitioners and managers to learn and network.
Presentations included:
- Pre-Conference Workshop on Wilding Conifers
- Keynote Address & Background to the Policy Environment
- Industry-wide Research Perspectives
- Case Studies from Large Environmental Projects beyond Forestry
- Continuous Cover Forestry - International Practices
- An Iwi Perspective on Forestry Environment Management
Who Attended
- Environmental foresters from large and small forest management companies
- Senior operation managers from forest companies
- Regulatory and compliance staff from regional councils and local government agencies
- Staff from both policy and management groups at national government agencies
- Owners and senior operations staff from forest engineering contracting companies

Sponsorship & Exhibition Opportunities
The Environmental Forestry conference offered a tremendous opportunity for companies involved throughout the forestry sector. Exhibition spaces were at a premium. FIEA has a well-deserved reputation of providing both sponsors and exhibitors with a unique platform for promoting their products and services to the industry in BOTH New Zealand and Australia.
We always receive strong interest in the sponsorship and exhibiting opportunities available. For a full range of sponsorship, exhibition and branding options, please contact Gordon Thomson, Marketing & Sponsorship Manager, (+64) 7 921 1384 or (+64) 27 275 8022, gordon.thomson@fiea.org.nz.
