Type
Fact sheet
Subject
Growing & harvesting, Indigenous Forestry, Forestry
If you are interested in trading in Swamp Kauri, there are a number of things you need
to be aware of. Swamp Kauri activities (milling, selling and export) are regulated under
the Forests Act 1949, and (depending on where you live) extraction and processing of
swamp kauri may also regulated under the Resource Management Act 1991.
In 2015 the Ministry for Primary Industries also introduced voluntary inspection
processes for the extraction of swamp kauri, and the export of swamp kauri
finished or manufactured indigenous timber products.
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