Land limitations

We don’t have endless space in Aotearoa or anywhere else. Trees need specific conditions to grow, and we can’t just plant them anywhere we like.

Food versus forests

If we use all our land for trees, where will we grow our kai (food)? We can’t survive on just kōwhai seeds and manuka honey.

Trees aren’t immortal

Trees don’t live forever. When they die, they release the carbon they’ve stored back into the atmosphere.