Afforestation: The planting of trees for the primary purpose of producing wood or wood fibre, on land that has not previously been used for growing planted production forests.
Forest area: Net stocked planted production forest area.
Net stocked forest area: The planted production forest area occupied by trees, excluding mappable gaps such as landings, roads and other unstocked areas.
At URL provided, select 'National Exotic Forest Description 2025' > 'Download the 2025 NEFD tables [XLSX, 100 KB]'.
Some sheets were combined by Figure.NZ for processing purposes.
From the dataset National Exotic Forest Description 2025, this data was extracted:
Sheet: Table 5
Range: C7:E93
Provided: 201 data points
Dataset originally released on:
December 18, 2025
About this dataset
The National Exotic Forest Description (NEFD) provides a detailed description of New Zealand’s planted production forest to help with resource policy planning and industry development.
Purpose of collection
To maintain an authoritative, high quality database of New Zealand’s production forests.
Method of collection/Data provider
The NEFD surveys known forest owners and managers with at least 40 hectares of planted exotic production forest. The survey is run on a two-yearly cycle, where all known forest owners with 40 or more hectares of forest are surveyed one year (census), and the next year only owners with more than 1,000 hectares (sample).