Pan Pac strives for environmental excellence in forest management.
Company environmental rules and guidelines set standards for all operations. Forest operations are monitored to ensure the impact on the environment is minimised. We respect the value of historic and cultural sites. All forest and any new land prior to purchase have an archeological survey to identify historic or waahi tapu sites. Contact Pan Pac for a copy of the Company's Environmental Rules and Guidelines.
About 10% of our land is covered by indigenous forest and scrub. This has been assessed and mapped so that significant areas can be better protected. Threatened species and their habitat have been surveyed and described. Details are contained in Pan Pac's Ecological Management Plan. Contact Pan Pac for a copy.
Environmental Monitoring
Pan Pac's monitoring programme assesses the company’s environmental performance by comparing actual performance against legal requirements, company standards, and environmental objectives and targets.
Types of monitoring include:
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Visits prior to, during and after an operation
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A Post Operation Assessment Checklist (POAC) is completed immediately prior to completion of all operations or at the end of each month leaving a “paper trail”. 10% of POAC’s are internally audited.
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Plant and animal pests
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Incident records/database
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Compliments / Complaints records/database
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Research is used extensively to monitor environmental effects of operations. Current research includes: Water quality
Ecology
Soil
Agrichemicals
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A Recreation Registrar keeps a record of individual users, compiles statistics and provides information for the review of recreational policy
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A comprehensive land information system records and monitors spatial data of all forest areas.
Pan Pac’s forests gain environmental certification from Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)
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Pan Pac achieved Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Certification in December 2001. FSC certification means that the forests are managed according to strict environmental, social and economic standards.
Pan Pac ’s sawmill and pulpmill also achieved FSC ‘chain of custody’ certification. This ensures FSC certified material is tracked through the production process.
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What is FSC
The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is an independent, non-profit, nongovernmental organisation. It was founded in 1993 by a diverse group of representatives from environmental and conservation groups, the timber industry, the forestry profession, indigenous peoples’ organisations, community forestry groups and forest products certification organisations from 25 countries.
The FSC supports environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial and economically viable management of the world’s forests. They have developed a set of principles and criteria for forest stewardship. Forests are evaluated by independent accredited organisations and, when certified, forests are visited on a regular basis to ensure they continue to comply with the Principles and Criteria. Products originating from FSC certified forests are eligible to carry the FSC logo.
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