Think like a forest and save billions of dollars

Think like a forest and save billions of dollars
Sam the Trap Man appears in Think Life a Forest. (Image: Pure Advantage)
Greg Hurrell
Locking up carbon in pine forests is starting to look like an earlier environmental solution – the introduction of stoats, according to a trustee of a major native reafforestation initiative.Andrew Grant, a trustee at charity Pure Advantage, was speaking after the premiere of the documentary Think Like a Forest at the Beehive theatrette on Aug 20.The half-hour documentary showcased pilot projects from Recloaking Papatūānuku, an ambitious native reafforestation project backed by The Warehouse founder Stephen Tindall, another Pure Advantage...

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