Learning how to select trees during thinning operations is the difference between a valuable crop or a poorly formed one.

Rayonier Matariki Forests’ Otago Harvest Forester, Sarah de Gouw, has been awarded the inaugural FRESTRA Young Forester of the Year Award.

A “lifetime” partnership between iwi-led environmental restoration group Wairere Mahi and Rayonier Matariki Forests will deliver significant rewards to the sacred area surrounding Killarney Lakes in the Kaimai Mamaku.

One of New Zealand’s little known but critically endangered species living in The Bush Gully Wetland in Canterbury’s Coalgate Forest is getting a helping hand in survival thanks to Rayonier Matariki Forests.

Tucked away in a plantation forest on the East Coast of the North Island sits one of New Zealand’s most endangered plants.

The inaugural Wahine in Forestry conference brought together more than 60 women from around New Zealand for the first ever women-only forestry conference, providing two days of connection, learning and inspiration.

Rayonier Matariki Forests has been recognised by the International Council of Forestry and Paper Associations (ICFPA) in its 2023 Sustainability Progress Report for its conservation work with the Eastern brown kiwi.

Only four weeks out from the annual BDO Parihaka Trail Run Cyclone Gabrielle put paid to the event with many of the tracks being damaged.

Before dawn, the Rayonier Matariki Forests team and their visitors assembled at the entrance to 8 Mahuhu Crescent, before being led upstairs to meet the kaumātua and representatives from central Tāmaki tangata whenua Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei for a dawn blessing of the new office space.