Australia's Sustainable Forest Management Framework of Criteria and Indicators 2008 – Policy Guidelines [1.6MB] details the seven criteria and 44 indicators in the framework used for reporting on the state of Australia's forests. It includes the rationale for the inclusion of each indicator in the framework, within the relevant criterion.
Publication date: 28 October 2024
The Australia's Indigenous land and forest estate (2024) is a continental spatial dataset that identifies and reports separately the individual attributes of Australia's Indigenous estate, namely the extent of land and forest over which Indigenous peoples and communities have ownership, management or co-management, and other special rights.
Publication date: 15 December 2023
Publication date: 28 October 2024
Publication date: 15 December 2023
Forests of Australia (2023) is a continental spatial dataset of forest extent, by national forest categories and types, assembled for the 2023 update of Indicator 1.1a for Australia's State of the Forests Report. It was developed from multiple forest, vegetation and land cover data inputs, including contributions from Australian, state and territory government agencies and external sources.
A forest is defined in this dataset as:
Australia's plantations 2020-21 is a dataset of commercial plantations derived from spatial data provided by plantation growers and managers.
ABARES has prepared this dataset under the auspices of the National Plantation Inventory (NPI). The NPI has surveyed public and private plantation growers and managers to collect data on plantations established primarily for wood production in Australia since 1993.
The following provide access to online mapping tools, datasets, applications and a searchable glossary that are relevant to the forest and vegetation sectors and are available to the general public.
Interact with Australia's key spatial forest datasets in ArcGIS Online map viewer:
Below are the key maps from the latest updates to Australia’s State of the Forests Report.
This page provides access to national non-spatial data about Australia's forests, produced for reporting in Australia's State of the Forests Report 2018, Australian Forest and Wood Products Statistics publications and other publications.
