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PA Handford & Associates Ltd

Vegetation and Biodiversity Management

Services

  • Advice on the management of natural forests for conservation and biodiversity enhancement.
  • Assistance with integrating biodiversity or soil and water management into production systems such as plantation forests or pastoral farming.
  • Urban forest and vegetation planning and management: From enhancement of transport corridors and industrial areas to greenbelts and development of riparian corridors. Our skills in working with communities are particularly valuable in these projects. We work to provide you the benefits of vegetation in an urban environment - including control of runoff, landscape enhancement, amenity, shelter and shade.

Projects

Projects undertaken include the development of a management plan for the Palmerston North City Council water supply reserve, a 3500 hectare area of predominantly natural forest. This Reserve has a wide range of important forest resources and users. The Reserve has high biodiversity values as well as providing over 60% of the water supply to Palmerston North City. A pamphlet introducing this project can be downloaded here as a PDF file (1.4mb)

Native forest remnants

Production landscapes

Natural forest areas