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Forestry regional profiles
Regional, state/territory, national forest areas by type and tenure, forestry employment, and numbers of sawmills.
Australia's native forest types
Forest type data by state or territory, tenure, crown cover, height and Indigenous ownership and management category…
28 June 2022 - Last modified
The 'Forest inventory for private native forestry, farm forestry and Indigenous forestry' project was developed under the 2018 National Forest Industries Plan Growing a Better Australia – A billion trees for jobs and growth. A key goal of the project is to improve the national description of…
11 April 2022 - Last modified
Publication date: 09 November 2021
This ABARES Position Paper identifies drivers for change in the mechanism of forest reporting through Australia’s State of the Forests Report (SOFR), including increasing user expectations for access to current forest data, and access to information and analysis…
26 April 2022 - Last modified
This data visualisation allows users to select regions from around Australia to display data and a map of forest extent, forest tenure, forest and plantation types, employment in forestry, and the number of sawmills in the region selected.
Users can hover over the values and the bars in the data…
28 June 2022 - Last modified
Publication date: 31 March 2022
Regional Forestry Hubs boundaries (2022) is a spatial dataset comprising the boundaries created by each of eleven Regional Forestry Hubs established under the National Forest Industries Plan [PDF 3.1 MB].
The Regional Forestry Hubs were created under the National…
09 August 2022 - Last modified
Publication date: 18 December 2020
The ABARES report Regional forest agreements: compilation of reservation and resource availability outcomes presents a compilation of data on changes in reserves areas and forest resource availability in RFA regions, both at their signing and in the most recent…
14 October 2021 - Last modified
Publication date: 03 December 2020.
This ABARES technical report presents a schema to allow for separate reporting of each of Indigenous ownership of land or forest, Indigenous management or co-management of land or forest, and land or forest over which Indigenous peoples and communities have…
03 August 2022 - Last modified
Australia's ten Regional Forest Agreements (RFAs) are long-term agreements for the sustainable management and conservation of Australia's forests. There are 10 RFAs across New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia, signed between 1997 and 2001 as 20-year agreements between…
14 October 2021 - Last modified
The National Plantation Inventory (NPI) collects data and reports on plantations established primarily for timber production in Australia. It has been doing this since 1993. NPI reports are prepared and published by ABARES.
The latest report is: Australian plantation statistics 2022 update.
An…
15 August 2022 - Last modified
Sustainable forest management is an adaptive process, and assessing and reporting on sustainability evolves as data availability and knowledge of forest management improves. Recognising this, a major review of Australia's Sustainable Forest Management Framework of Criteria and Indicators was…
20 October 2021 - Last modified