New South Wales - Snapshots of landscape & climate
New South Wales at a glance:
- 80 million hectares total land area - 10% of Australia
- 27 million hectares of forest in 2003
- 522.5 thousand hectares of forest cleared from 1989-2002
- 168 million tonnes greenhouse emissions from deforestation since 1989 - equivalent to 16-times the current annual emissions from all of Australia's passenger vehicles
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