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This profile has been superseded by the 2019 version, which is available here.
Information for this profile is drawn from Australia's State of the Forests Report 2013.
Australia has 6.4 million hectares of Melaleuca native forest, mainly found in northern Australia.
There are more than 200…
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Information for this profile is drawn from Australia's State of the Forests Report 2018 (SOFR). ABARES is in the process of updating indicators for SOFR with data up to or as at 2021. This forest profile will be updated with new data in early 2024.
Australia has 6.4 million…
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This is Supporting information for Indicator 6.5a, published July 2024.State-based employment studiesThree recent state-based studies of forest sector employment reported data on both direct and indirect employment. Indirect employment includes activities generated from direct employment, such as…
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This indicator reports the level of information available to manage forest dwelling species and tracks changes in this knowledge over time. The amount of habitat, disturbance and life history information available to make management decisions indicates the capacity to assess risk to species and to…
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Background
On 24 June 2015, the Senate resolved to establish the Select Committee on the Murray-Darling Basin Plan to inquire on the positive and negative impacts of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan on regional communities.
The Committee presented its final report on 17 March 2016. The majority…
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The sections below are key information from Australia's State of the Forests Report. This information provides important context for users of the Forests Australia website.Forest definitionThe definition of forest used by Australia's National Forest Inventory is:An area, incorporating all living…
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This indicator (Indicator 1.1a) uses the area for each forest type over time as a broad measure of the extent to which forest ecosystems and their diversity are being maintained. Reporting on forest tenure aids our understanding of how different land management regimes may impact on forest…
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This is Supporting information for 1.1a.iii Forest area in Regional Forest Agreement (RFA) regions, published December 2023.1.1a.iii Forest area in RFA regions is one of four parts of Indicator 1.1a Area of forest by forest type and tenure.Forest types in RFA regionsThe national forest types are…
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