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  • Forests
    • Forest economics
      • Australian forest and wood products statistics
      • Forest economic research
        • Australian wood volumes analysis
        • A framework for developing medium term projections of traded wood products
        • Economic potential for new plantation establishment in Australia
        • Future opportunities for using forest and sawmill residues in Australia
        • Illegal logging regulation: analysis of regulated importers by business size
        • Productivity and efficiency of the Australian sawmilling industry
        • Responsiveness of demand for structural pine to changes in timber and steel prices
        • Short-term forecasts of selected wood product sales volume: Method and assumptions
        • Upscaling the Australian softwood sawmill industry
      • Australian plantation statistics update
      • Plantation and log supply
      • National wood processing survey
    • Forest sciences
    • Forest data
    • Forests overview

Forest sciences

ABARES Forest Sciences section compiles, analyses and maintains national spatial and non-spatial forest datasets, and performs analysis and provides scientific advice and reporting, across a range of topics relating to forests and forest resources.

Those include forest ecology, silvicultural systems, sustainable yield, Regional Forest Agreements, threatened species, illegal logging, and national, regional and state-based forest issues.

National Forest Inventory

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The data are stored in Australia’s National Forest Inventory (NFI), which was established in 1988 to enable the production of nationally consistent and comprehensive information on Australia’s forests.

The NFI is the repository for a range of data about Australia’s forests, supplied by state, territory and Australian government agencies, and integrated into national classifications.

Data from the NFI are used for public communication of information about Australia's forests, including in the Australia’s State of the Forests Report series, via the Forests Australia website, and internationally including for the global Forest Resources Assessments coordinated by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and for the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations.

Cover of the Australia's State of the Forests Report 2018
Australia's State of the Forests Report 2018
Cover page of Global Forest Resources Assessment 2020
Global Forest Resources Assessment 2020
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Sustainable Development Goals
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Page last updated: 18 August 2022

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