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Forestry conversions rules 'totally out of control'
Wealthy European buyers have snapped up four more sheep and beef farms to convert to forestry, as rural concerns over the sales ramp up.
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Govt gives Japanese-owned company free pass to buy NZ land
24 Oct 2019Land Information Minister and Green MP Eugenie Sage has given a foreign-owned forestry company a free pass to buy thousands of hectares of New Zealand land…
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NZ's top 50 private landowners revealed
17 Oct 2019Green Rush - Rich-listers, established farming families and a former All Black are among New Zealand's top 50 landowners.
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Foreign forestry companies could face 'oil and gas' style ban
10 Oct 2019Green Rush - Forestry Minister Shane Jones is considering reining in conversions of farmland to forestry after a rural backlash. Video
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The New Zealanders holding vigils for chickens
22 Oct 2019Meet the people showing love and compassion to animals about to be slaughtered, as part of a global movement that has arrived in our country. Video
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Austrian countess fined over NZ land purchase
17 Oct 2019Green Rush - The countess breached overseas investment rules while buying an iconic farm station, but was allowed to keep the property and was fined just a fraction of the purchase price. Video
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Green Rush: Will pines really save the planet?
10 Oct 2019Vast new pine forests are being hailed as a solution to NZ's carbon emissions deficit - but not all environmentalists see them as a silver bullet and farmers say they could gut rural communities.
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Green Rush: Foreign forestry companies NZ's biggest landowners
10 Oct 2019The four largest private landowners in New Zealand are all foreign-owned forestry companies, an RNZ investigation has found.
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