{"id":3309,"date":"2023-02-23T05:23:37","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T16:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=3309"},"modified":"2023-02-23T05:23:37","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T16:23:37","slug":"time-to-invest-in-native-planting-after-bola-pine-failures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=3309","title":{"rendered":"Time to invest in native planting after Bola pine failures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Opinion &#8211;<\/i>\u00a0During Cyclones Hale and Gabrielle the poor management of exotic plantations &#8211; primarily pine &#8211; has again led to extensive damage in Tai R\u0101whiti.<\/p>\n<p>Critical public infrastructure destroyed; highly productive agricultural and horticultural land washed away or buried; houses, fences and sheds knocked over; people&#8217;s lives and dreams upended; people dead.<\/p>\n<p>The impacts on natural ecosystems are still unknown, but there will have been extensive damage in terrestrial, freshwater and marine environments. Similar damage occurred during storms in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/floodlist.com\/australia\/new-zealand-floods-hit-gisborne-and-hawkes-bay-june-2018\">June 2018<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2020\/07\/18\/residents-in-gisborne-region-told-to-stay-home-others-evacuated-due-to-record-flooding\/\">July 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While heavy rainfall and flooded rivers are a major factor, it is sediment and slash from plantation harvesting that has been the cause of most of the damage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thespinoff.co.nz\/business\/15-02-2023\/what-is-slash-and-why-is-it-so-dangerous-in-bad-weather\">Slash<\/a>\u00a0is the woody material (including large logs) left after clear-fell harvesting of commercial forests. Landslides in harvested sites pick up the material and carry it downstream, causing significant damage.<\/p>\n<p>All the evidence from Cyclone Gabrielle shows that much of the damage was caused by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/cyclone-gabrielle-triggered-more-destructive-forestry-slash-nz-must-change-how-it-grows-trees-on-fragile-land-200059\">radiata pine slash<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion &#8211;\u00a0During Cyclones Hale and Gabrielle the poor management of exotic plantations &#8211; primarily pine &#8211; has again led to extensive damage in Tai R\u0101whiti. Critical public infrastructure destroyed; highly productive agricultural and horticultural land washed away or buried; houses, fences and sheds knocked over; people&#8217;s lives and dreams upended; people dead. The impacts on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3310,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309\/revisions\/3310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}