126 / 156
134 Business View Australia - January-February 2016
MANUFA
such as steel and concrete with tim-
ber and the use of biomass for re-
newable energy.
Australia’s native forests extend
over 125 million hectares and wood
production in public multiple-use for-
ests is restricted to only 5.5 million
hectares or 4.5% of the total forest-
ed area. Of this, less than 80,000
hectares is harvested annually, rep-
resenting just 0.06% of the total for-
est area.
The area under plantation forests in
the country is about two million hec-
tares and represents only 1.3% of the
total forested area. But it provides 80%
of total industrial roundwood or about
19.2 million cubic metres of logs.