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Forest data

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Australian forest and wood products statistics

Document File size
March and June quarters 2020
Data tables - Australian forest and wood products statistics: March – June quarters 2022 – MS Excel 429 KB

Australian plantation statistics

Document File size
2016
Australia's plantations 2016 dataset - Shapefile ZIP 4.3 MB
National Plantation Inventory: NPI Regions 2016 - Shapefile ZIP 0.63 MB
Australia's plantations 2016 dataset - metadata statement DOCX 0.1 MB

Spatial data on Australia's forests

Spatial data on Australia’s forests are available on the Forests Australia forest spatial data page. The following datasets are available for download:

  • Forests of Australia (2018)
  • Tenure of Australia’s forests (2018)
  • Australia’s Indigenous land and forest estate (2020)
  • Fires in Australia’s forests 2011–16 (2018)
  • Australia’s plantations 2016

Superseded spatial datasets on Australia’s forests are also available.

Data from Australia's State of the Forests Report 2018

The following data workbooks (in Microsoft Excel) contain data for the tables and figures from the following chapters within Australia's State of the Forests Report 2018:

Document File size
Executive summary 0.3 MB
Criterion 1: Conservation of biological diversity 0.5 MB
Criterion 2: Maintenance of productive capacity of forest ecosystems 0.5 MB
Criterion 3: Maintenance of ecosystem health and vitality 0.1 MB
Criterion 4: Conservation and maintenance of soil and water resources 0.2 MB
Criterion 5: Maintenance of forest contribution to global carbon cycles 0.1 MB
Criterion 6: Maintenance and enhancement of long-term multiple socioeconomic benefits to meet the needs of societies 1.3 MB
Criterion 7: Legal, institutional and economics framework for forest conservation and sustainable management 0.4 MB

Forest fire data

Data on forest fire area for the 2019–20 summer bushfire season in southern and eastern Australia, and data on national forest fire area for 2011–16, are available on the Forests Australia forest fire data page.

Regional forest agreement data

Data tables and figures from the ABARES report Regional forest agreements: compilation of reservation and resource availability outcomes are available for download from the Forests Australia RFA data page.

Forest maps

National forest maps, including from Australia’s State of the Forests Report 2018, are available for download from the Forests Australia forest maps page.

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