Plantation Forestry Expansion

Australia is a net importer of timber despite having much land well suited for forestry and there is a national policy to promote plantation forestry. The expansion of plantations at the expense of tropical forest worries environmentalists and other observers.

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Community reaction to rapid plantation forestry expansion.

Plantation forestry expansion. Eg in plantations there may be intensive site preparation weed control fertilizer use pest control relatively frequent uses of heavy machines for harvest and planting with associated impacts on soils. On the other hand the plantation forestry provides a much higher yield in terms of money as compared to natural forests. A comparison of studies of different settings suggests STPs have been the main form of industrial forestry expansion in places such as Thailand Barney 2004 Vietnam Sikor 2012 and Finland Forestfi Facts Ownership accessed 28.

A collection that spanned two decades the imagery exposed the loss of old-growth forest in Indonesian and Malaysian Borneo where nearly half of the worlds industrial-scale oil palm plantations. Plantation based industries can contribute significantly to regional economic development by value adding locally to primary production and generating downstream processing jobs. Plantation forestry A plantation forestry carbon farming project involves expanding or optimising plantation estates for solid wood production.

2 Potential for expansion of plantation forestry in Australia Overview In 2013-14 Australias total plantation estate was 199 million hectares comprising softwood plantations of 102 million hectares and hardwood plantations of 963 000 hectares. Opportunities for expansion of plantations The country needs between150000 to 200000 ha of forestry to ensure a sustainable forestry industry and the current plantations are estimated at between 70000 to 80000 only. Many plantations are on abandoned agricultural land and therefore.

To answer that question scientists at the Center for International Forestry Research CIFOR used a series of satellite images to map the expansion of large industrial oil palm and pulpwood plantations. The expanding tropical plantation forest estate includes trees grown primarily as agricultural. Plantation forestry occupies half of one per cent 05 of the total rural land area in Australia.

2 Sequestration potential from plantation forestry expansion In 2015-16 Australias total plantation estate was around 2 million hectares of which approximately half were softwood species and half were hardwood species ABARES 2017b. Most of the remaining 10 of plantation forests were established primarily to supply fuel or wood for non-industrial use. Limit plantation size to 50 ac or smaller Establish a ratio of 1 ac of permanent opening per 20 ac of trees within plantations 50 ac Establish irregular plantation boundaries Establish or preserve hardwood corridors and firebreaks -roads planted to herbaceous cover to increase diversity.

The conversion of natural forest to plantation forestry decreases the access to environmental goods such as non-timber forestry produce Sjaastad et al. There is however an enabling environment to support forestry expansion such as. Forest plantations require intensive management inputs more similar to agriculture than to traditional management of native-species forests.

Use of short rotation high yielding plantations to grow a sufficient supply of the renewable resource has several advantages and these are expanding. This compares with 406 million hectares of farmland. Dynamics where plantations expand.

Developing or expanding the plantation estate is often advocated on the grounds of producing a timber resource creating employment and providing ecosystems services. While Australia has established sound markets for plantation forestry products with increasing importance being given for production in the sub-tropics and tropical regions Varmola and Carle 2002 the expansion of the industry has been met with considerable controversy at the local community level. By 2015 plantations reached 291 million ha with an average annual.

McElwee 2009 usually a benefit mainly of interest for the poor strata. Because of the high yields the area affected is smaller and concentrated. An expanding plantation resource base is critical to the development of internationally competitive dynamic and ecologically sustainable forest and forest product industries.

It is this shared area forest converted to industrial plantations included in both annual industrial plantation expansion and annual forest loss that explains why variation. The expansion of plantation forestry. With growing concerns about the status and loss of natural forests the rapid expansion of protected areas and large areas of forest unavailable for wood supply plantations are increasingly expected to provide substitutes for products from natural forests particularly in Asia and the Pacific.

Expansion of industrial plantations has directly contributed to forest loss throughout the study period as seen in the areas of forest cleared and converted within the same year. About 75 of the existing plantation forest estate is established in temperate regions but it is in the tropics that the rate of expansion is greatest. There are two main types of plantation management activities that a plantation owner manager or investor can undertake.

Promoted rapid expansion of plantation forestry in the subtropics and tropics Brown et al. In the year 2000 plantations were only about 5 of the global forest cover but produced 35 of global roundwood production FAO 2011 on 033 of the global land area and if all were managed properly could produce two thirds of global roundwood production Christie 2008.

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