New Zealand - Timber Industry - A group of timber workers around three large logs - Circa 1910s - Nort hwood brothers photo The value of all forestry exports (logs, chips, sawn timber, panels and paper products) - $NZ 3.62 billion for the year ended 31 March 2006 - $NZ 5 billion in 2018 - Australia accounts for just over 25% of export value, mostly paper products, followed by Japan, South Korea, China and the United States. - In 2018, wood products were New Zealand's third-biggest export - Forestry accounted for approximately 3% of national GDP - Directly employing 20,000 people (Reference: Wikipedia) --------------------- Image source: Timber workers. Northwood brothers :Photographs of Northland. Ref: 1/1-006293-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23089317 https://natlib.govt.nz/records/23089317