Tasmania - Snapshots of landscape & climate
Tasmania at a glance:
- 7 million hectares total land area (1% of Australia)
- 3 million hectares of forest present in 2003
- 73 thousand hectares of forest cleared from 1989-2002
- 42 million tonnes greenhouse emissions from deforestation since 1989
- equivalent to 4-times current annual emissions from all of Australia's passenger vehicles
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