Native forest in Australia, by crown cover class (2018)

Native forest in Australia, by crown cover class (2018)

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‘Woodland forest: As a National Forest Inventory cover class, native forest in which the tree crowns cover between 20% and 50% of the land area.

Open forest: As a National Forest Inventory cover class, forest in which the tree crowns cover from over 50% to 80% of the land area.

Closed forest: As a National Forest Inventory cover class, forest in which the tree crowns cover more than 80% of the land area.

-The last category has possibly been renamed, but could fall under

Other forest: A National Forest Inventory forest category that principally comprises non-commercial plantations and planted forests that are not reported through the National Plantation Inventory but that satisfy the definition of forest.

‘Other forest’ includes agroforestry plantations, sandalwood plantations, environmental plantings, plantations within the reserve system, and plantations regarded as not commercially viable. Non-planted forests dominated by introduced species are also included in this category.’

Victorian forest cover map (2018)

Victorian forest cover map (2018)

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‘Stop eating red meat. It’s responsible for a huge amount of the land that has been cleaned. Victoria basically needs to reforest most of what you see on that map if we’re going to stop catastrophic climate change. An added irony is more forest in Victoria should mean more venison…

Absolutely. I live in Gippsland and it is the weirdest thing to see massive expanses of cattle fields, and little patches of rainforest. It could all be forest, but for the cows. It’s mostly dairies near me, so people could also consider trying oat or soy milk (the lowest impact and land use plant milks)’

Total area of land and forest in Australia that is Indigenous Estate (2020)

Total area of land and forest in Australia that is Indigenous Estate (2020)

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‘What does it mean that land is an indigenous estate? Do the aborigines own that land in some collective form?

“The Indigenous estate is the total area of land over which Indigenous peoples and communities have either ownership, or management, or rights of use for customary purposes”

A much smaller area is owned and managed by indigenous people (note not aborigine)

The largest area is where indigenous Australians have “other special rights” which is defined as “ Lands subject to native title determinations, registered Indigenous Land Use Agreements and legislated special cultural use provisions. “’

All types of vegetation and urban/built-up areas of Europe

All types of vegetation and urban/built-up areas of Europe

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‘I am a norwegian who loves nature and I remember I had plans to travel around europe and see all the nature then I looked at google maps and got really dissapointed. Where is all the nature left in europe?? It’s just a few patches of woods surrounded by farms and cities. It seems you can’t get lost in nature because if you walk just a little it ends..’