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New Zealand falls out of love with sheep farming as lucrative pine forests spread
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2023
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The really perverse thing is there's no intention to ever harvest it. If they did that they'd have to pay back the carbon credits. They plant it and leave it, gather carbon credits quickly for 40 years. The rate slows down to a trickle after that as the canopy is mature. There is really no plan after that. Source family in forestry.