Why native trees?
It’s become increasingly obvious that we are in a very dire environmental state, even here in 100% pure New Zealand. Along with the witnessing of recent weather events and the devastation from impact industries like Pine farming, our land and rivers are falling further into environmental decline.
The questions are starting to be asked, how can we do better? And where are we heading? The answer is simple. Plant more Native trees covenanted in perpetuity, restore biodiversity and contribute to the long-standing remediation and care of our planet for the future of our children and the earth.
In exotic forests, there is little room for natives and often this land is rendered un-liveable for our birds, unique animals and species of New Zealand. Our native forests are unique and hard to replicate and have been deforested at a rapid rate. By choosing to restore the biodiversity of the land, we are choosing to save the future birds, insects, animal life and waterways.
New Zealand's native forests are unique and hard to replicate but they have been devastated at a rapid rate
What is greenwashing and how does it affect your carbon offsets?
‘Greenwashing’ is an attempt to capitalise on the growing demand for environmentally sound products and businesses.
Companies and individuals who are setting aside money to invest in becoming carbon-neutral now want more transparency when it comes to their transactions. There are a lot of false claims when it comes to the carbon industry, and we aim to correct that. BioBonds is the solution – we have open minds and are always open to talking about all aspects of our business.
So, if you ask us, ‘how can we do better?’, our answer is simple – we want to plant as many native trees around New Zealand as we possibly can. The BioBond contributions go into planting and restoring the land. We care about the future of our children and the planet they will inherit.
Native forests
- Help clean up waterways, protect downstream ecosystems and help reduce flood risk.
- Enhance the landscape and play a big part in providing environments for recreation.
- Stabilise the soil and help repair land that has been devastated by exotic forestry.
- Provide habitats for native wildlife.
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Exotic forests
- Pine forests create a poor habitat.
- Biodiversity risk and decline.
- Fire risk in a warming planet.
- Produce slash, which ends up in the rivers polluting waterways and damaging our ecosystems.
- Land post Pine is often rendered depleted and redundant and very hard to restore.
- Sediment impacts, pollute rivers, streams, estuaries and oceans compromising and contributing to the decline of animal species that rely on these delicate ecosystems to live which we are seeing in recent flooding events.