A brand new report from the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Useful resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) reveals that Australia’s forest space elevated by 750,000 hectares within the 5 years to 2021.
ABARES Govt Director, Dr Jared Greenville, mentioned the five-yearly Australia’s State of the Forests Report: Synthesis 2023 lined all areas of Australia’s forests—private and non-private forests, forests managed for manufacturing and forests managed for conservation—and the complete vary of social, financial and environmental values.
“Gaining a greater understanding of our forests is an important a part of guaranteeing they’re managed sustainably,” Dr Greenville mentioned.
“That’s why this report is so essential—it offers the knowledge that Australia’s policy-makers and planners want if they’re to plan continued development into the longer term.
“In 2021 Australia’s forest space was 134 million hectares and has elevated by 750 thousand hectares over the earlier 5 years.
“Most of Australia’s forests are privately managed with 90.8 million hectares, or 68% of Australia’s forests, on leasehold or privately owned tenures.
“The Indigenous forest property is 80 million hectares, representing 60% of Australia’s complete forest space. This is a rise of 10 million hectares since 2018.
“In 2022-23, the worth of logs harvested from native forests and business plantations was $2.4 billion, and the sector employed 51,123 employees in 2021, solely barely down in comparison with 2016.
“Over the interval 2016-17 to 2020-21 the typical annual space of harvest from multiple-use native forest was 77 thousand hectares or about 0.06% of Australia’s complete space of native forest.
“A complete of 49 million hectares (37 per cent) of Australia’s native forest is on land protected for biodiversity conservation, or the place biodiversity conservation is a specified administration intent.
“The most typical threats to nationally listed forest-dwelling fauna and flora embody land-use change and/or forest loss; unsuitable fireplace regimes; predation and competitors by launched fauna and flora; and small or localised populations. Forestry operations had been the least prevalent of the 11 specified risk classes for listed forest-dwelling fauna and flora.
“Carbon shares in Australia’s forests elevated barely to 19,417 million tonnes, in the course of the interval 2016 to 2021. As well as, in 2021, 167 million tonnes of carbon was current in harvested wooden merchandise, a 5% enhance since 2016.”
SOFR Synthesis 2023 is the sixth within the collection of five-yearly nationwide stories on Australia’s forests, and presents a brand new method for nationwide reporting.
Supply: ABARES. For extra info please go to: Forests Australia
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