Forest publications
National publications
Current reports and papers
- Australia's State of the Forests Report - latest indicator updates
- Australia’s native forests and wood production
- Australian wood volumes analysis
Regional Forest Agreements and Comprehensive Regional Assessment boundaries
Publication date: 24 February 2025
Regional Forest Agreements (RFAs) are long-term Commonwealth–state agreements for the conservation and sustainable management of specific regions of Australia’s native and plantation forests.
This dataset defines the areas that were supplied by states for the Regional Forest Agreements process and includes RFA regions in New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia, and for Queensland a Comprehensive Regional Assessment region.
Indicator 3.1a: Scale and impact of agents and processes affecting forest health and vitality (2024) - Supporting information
This indicator identifies the scale and impact on forest health of a variety of processes and agents, both natural and human-induced. Through the regular collection of this information, significant changes to the health and vitality of forest ecosystems can be monitored and measured.
This is Supporting information for Indicator 3.1a, published October 2024.
Methods
Vertebrate herbivore pests
Indicator 1.1c: Area of forest in protected area categories (2024) - Supporting information
This is Supporting information for Indicator 1.1c, published July 2024.
Forest in the National Reserve System by IUCN protected area category
To be protected and included in Australia’s National Reserve System (NRS), an area of land must meet the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) definition of a protected area. These areas are assigned to an IUCN protected area management category (NRMMC 2009).
Indicator 6.5d: Resilience of forest-dependent Indigenous communities to changing social and economic conditions (2024) - Supporting information
This is Supporting information for Indicator 6.5d, published July 2024.
Indicator 6.5b: Wage rates and injury rates within the forest sector (2024) - Supporting information
This is Supporting information for Indicator 6.5b, published July 2024.
Data sources
This indicator presents data derived from Australian Bureau of Statistics surveys and Safe Work Australia data.
ABS (Australian Bureau of Statistics) (2021-22). Australian Industry. Australian Bureau of Statistics, Canberra.
Indicator 6.5a: Direct and indirect employment in the forest sector (2024) - Supporting information
This is Supporting information for Indicator 6.5a, published July 2024.
Australia's State of the Forests Report - Past reporting
1.1a.iv Forest area change over time (2023) - Supporting information
This is Supporting information for 1.1a.iv Forest area change over time, published December 2023.
1.1a.iv Forest area change over time is one of four parts of Indicator 1.1a Area of forest by forest type and tenure.
This section presents some examples of on-ground change in forest area that were identified during creation of the 2023 update to Australia’s forest coverage.
1.1a.iii Forest area in Regional Forest Agreement regions (2023) - Supporting information
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.