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  • Australia's State of the Forests Report 2018
    • Executive summary
      • Data
    • Criterion 1 Conservation of biological diversity
    • Criterion 2: Maintenance of productive capacity of forest ecosystems
    • Criterion 3: Maintenance of ecosystem health and vitality
    • Criterion 4: Conservation and maintenance of soil and water resources
    • Criterion 5: Maintenance of forest contribution to global carbon cycles
    • Criterion 6: Maintenance and enhancement of long-term multiple socioeconomic benefits to meet the needs of societies
    • Criterion 7: Legal, institutional and economic framework for forest conservation and sustainable management
    • Maps and other graphics
    • Data

Maps and other graphics

These maps and other graphics were produced for Australia's State of the Forests Report 2018​, and are available here for download in .png and .pdf file formats. A selection of the key maps from below are also available at Forest maps​.

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Executive summary maps

Australia's forest​s, by forest category: PNG [0.8 MB], PDF [3.6 MB].

Distribution of listed threatened forest-dependent fauna species: PNG [0.8 MB], PDF [2.8 MB].

Distribution of forest ​burnt by fire in the period 2011–12 to 2015–16, by fire frequency: PNG [0.9 MB], PDF [2.0 MB].

Distribution of the Indigenous forest estate by land ownership and management categories: PNG [0.8 MB], PDF [2.2 MB].​​

Indigenous Locations, by proportion of the Indigenous workforce employed in forest and wood products industries, 2016: PNG [0.6 MB]​, PDF [4.2 MB].

Introduction maps

Figure I.i: Agro-ecological regions of Australia: PNG [0.​8 MB], PDF [8.4 MB].​

Figure I.ii: Mean annual rainfall across Australia: PNG [0.8 MB], PDF [8.4 MB].​

Figure I.iii: Distribution of native eucalypt forest, by crown cover class: PNG [0.9 MB], PDF [3.3 MB].​

Figure I.iv: Eucalypt mallee, eucalypt non-mallee and non-eucalypt native forest: PNG [0.9 MB], PDF [3.2 MB].​​

Figure I.v: National Plantation Inventory regions of Australia: PNG [0.8 MB], PDF [2.5 MB].​

Figure I.vi: Regional Forest Agreement and related regions in Australia: PNG [0.8 MB], PDF [2.5 MB].

​Criterion 1 maps and other graphics

Indicator 1.1a Area of forest by forest type and tenure
  • Figure 1.1: Australia's forests, by forest type: PNG [1.1 MB], PDF [3.5 MB].​
  • Figure 1.2: Native forest crown cover classes, height classes, and area proportions: PNG [1.7 MB]​.
  • Figure 1.3: Native forest, by crown cover class​: PNG [0.9 MB]​, PDF [3.5 MB].​
  • Figure 1.4: Australia's forests, by tenure: PNG [0.9 MB], PDF [3.5 MB].​
  • Figure 1.6: Differences between forest mapping in SOFR 2018 and SOFR 2013 in the northern part of the Northern Territory: PNG [0.7 MB], PDF [3.4 MB].​​

Indicator 1.1b Area of forest, by growth stage

  • Figure 1.14: Classification of growth stages in native forests: PN​G [0.1 MB].

Indicator 1.1c Area of forest in protected area categories

  • Figure 1.16: Australia’s forests in the National Reserve System, by IUCN protected area category: PNG [0.8 MB], P​DF [2.4 MB].

Indicator 1.1d Fragmentation of forest cover

  • Figure 1.17: Schematic diagram illustrating fragmentation metrics: PNG [0.1 MB].​
  • Figure 1.18: Native forest fragmentation class distribution across Australia: PNG [0.9 MB], P​DF [3.4 MB].​
  • Figure 1.19: Native forest fragmentation class distribution across south-west Western Australia: PNG [0.5 MB], PDF [3.3 MB].​
  • Figure 1.20: Native forest fragmentation class distribution across an area near Lake Burragorang (Warragamba Dam), south-west of Sydney, New South Wales: PNG [0.2 MB], P​DF [7.4 MB].​
  • Figure 1.21: Native forest patch size distribution across Australia: PNG [0.8 MB], PDF [3.4 MB].​

Indicator 1.2b The status of forest dwelling species at risk of not maintaining viable breeding populations, as determined by legislation or scientific assessment

  • Figure 1.23A: Modelled distribution​ of listed threatened species. A forest-dwelling fauna: PN​G [0.8 MB], P​DF [2.9 MB].
  • Figure 1.23B: Modelled distribution of listed threatened species. B forest-dependent fauna: PNG [0.8 MB], PDF [2.8 MB].
  • Figure 1.23C: Modelled distribution of listed threatened species. C forest-dwelling flora: PNG [0.8 MB], PDF [2.3 MB].
  • Figure 1.23D: Modelled distribution of listed threatened species. D forest-dependent flora: PNG [0.8 MB], PDF [2.0 MB].
  • Figure 1.24: Modelled distribution of listed threatened forest ecological communities: PNG [0.8 MB], PDF [2.8 MB].
  • Figure 1.26: Swift Parrot breeding range: PNG [0.5 MB], PDF [2.8 MB].

Indicator 1.2c Representative species from a range of habitats monitored at scales relevant to regional forest management

  • Figure 1.37: Indicative distribution of the koala in Australia: PNG [0.5 MB], PDF [4.4 MB].

Criterion 2 maps and other graphics

Indicator 2.1a Native forest available for wood production, area harvested, and growing stock of merchantable and non merchantable tree species

  • Figure 2.1: Australia’s native forest available and suitable for commercial wood production, 2016: PNG [1.6 MB], PDF [3.7 MB].
  • Figure 2.3: Silvicultural systems ​used in Australia's native forests: PNG [1.6 MB].

Indicator 2.1c Annual removal of wood products compared to the volume determined to be sustainable for native forests, and future yields for plantations

  • Figure 2.28: Commercial plantations and National Plantation Inventory regions: PNG [0.7 MB], PDF [1.4 MB].

Criterion 3 maps

Indicator 3.1a Scale and impact of agents and processes affecting forest health and vitality

  • Figure 3.6: Flux measurement sites in the TERN OzFlux facility that observed forest function during the 2013 heatwave: PNG [0.7 MB], PDF [1.4 MB].

Indicator 3.1b Area of forest burnt by planned and unplanned fire

  • Figure 3.14: Forest burnt, by number of fires, 2011–12 to 2015–16: PNG [0.9 MB], PDF [2.0 MB].
  • Figure 3.15: Forest burnt, by planned, unplanned, or both planned and unplanned fire, 2011–12 to 2015–16: PNG [1.1 MB], PDF [2.4 MB].

Criterion 5 maps​

Indicator 5.1a Contribution of forest ecosystems and forest industries to the global greenhouse gas balance

  • Figure 5.1: Carbon density of Australia’s forests, 2016: PNG [1.1 MB], PDF [​6.9 MB​].​​
  • Figure 5.6: Carbon density of land in the Great Barrier Reef catchments, 2016: PNG [0.6 MB], PDF [3.8 MB].

Criterion 6 maps​

Indicator 6.4a Area of forest to which Indigenous people have use and rights that protect their special values and are recognised through formal and informal management regimes

  • Figure 6.25: The Indigenous forest estate, by land ownership and management category: PNG [0.8 MB], PDF [2.2 MB].
  • Figure 6.26: Forest on non-Indigenous heritage-listed sites: PNG [0.7 MB], PDF [1.5 MB].

Indicator 6.5c Resilience of forest dependent communities to changing social and economic conditions

  • Figure 6.45: Local Government Areas, by proportion of the total workforce employed in forest and wood products industries, 2016: PNG [0.8 MB], PDF [4.3 MB].

Indicator 6.5d Resilience of forest dependent Indigenous communities to changing social and economic conditions​

  • Figure 6.46: Indigenous Locations, by proportion of the Indigenous workforce employed in forest and wood products industries, 2016: PNG [0.6 MB], PDF [4.2 MB].​

A single PDF ​file of all maps produced for Australia's State of the Forests Report 2018 is available here: SOFR ​2018 map package​ [31 MB]​.

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