Why natives?
New Zealand is facing a dire environmental crisis, with the spread of non-native species threatening our natives. Recent weather events and industries like pine farming are accelerating the decline of our land and rivers. This environmental toll leaves little room for native trees and the vital ecosystems they support. Restoring native forests and planting natives is crucial to reversing this damage and protecting New Zealand’s unique biodiversity.
As questions about New Zealand’s environmental future grow, the solution is clear: plant more native trees, covenanted in perpetuity, to restore biodiversity and help safeguard the planet for future generations. By investing in the restoration of native forests, we can protect the land, reduce the effects of climate change, and preserve our unique ecosystems.
Exotic forests, often dominated by non-native species, leave little room for natives, making the land uninhabitable for New Zealand’s native birds, animals, and plant species. Native forests are irreplaceable—they support the country’s unique wildlife and contribute to the health of our rivers and soils. However, these vital forests have been rapidly deforested. By restoring the land with native trees and focusing on native species, we are taking an active step in preserving New Zealand’s biodiversity, ensuring the survival of native birds, insects, and animals, and protecting our waterways for generations to come.
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.