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Forestry is a major industry in New Zealand, but the practices involved contribute to the damage left in the wake of cyclones and major weather events.
After 2023鈥檚 Cyclone Gabrielle, the Government revised slash management rules, ruling that forestry owners will have to remove slash if it鈥檚 over a certain size.
They鈥檙e now consulting on a proposal to further amend the standards due to cost, uncertainty, and compliance issues.
Mark Bloomberg and Steve Urlich authored a piece for the Conversation titled 鈥淲e are one bad rainstorm away from disaster 鈥 why proposed changes to forestry rules won鈥檛 solve the 鈥榮lash鈥 problem鈥, and in it they say the proposed changes fail to adress the core reasons for slash and sediment discharges.
Dr Mark Bloomberg, an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the University of Canterbury鈥檚 School of Forestry, joined Kerre Woodham to break down their thoughts.
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