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| AUSTRALASIA STATISTICS | ||||||||||
| Land area: 7,999,910 km2 | Area of forest: 1,440,869.0 km2 | % Land area forested: 18.0 | ||||||||
| Forest Type | Area Protected (km2) in IUCN Categories I-VI: | Total Forest (km2) | Total Protected (km2) | % Protected | ||||||
| Ia | Ib | II | III | IV | V | VI | ||||
| Temperate and Boreal | ||||||||||
| 1 Evergreen needleleaf forest | 14.74 | 0.00 | 260.53 | 8.92 | 47.55 | 702.75 | 80.33 | 11,070.50 | 1,114.81 | 10.07 |
| 4 Broadleaf evergreen forest | 2,095.47 | 1,579.30 | 14,357.66 | 1,376.19 | 599.94 | 3,068.39 | 1,098.30 | 50,173.25 | 24,175.25 | 48.18 |
| 5 Deciduous broadleaf forest | 0.00 | 0.00 | 314.22 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6,276.50 | 314.22 | 5.01 |
| 7 Sclerophyllous dry forest | 2,829.23 | 4,718.63 | 24,030.68 | 116.21 | 814.59 | 791.99 | 2,753.16 | 201,538.50 | 36,054.49 | 17.89 |
| 9 Sparse trees/parkland | 20,368.33 | 3,542.03 | 17,379.01 | 1,033.46 | 262.26 | 137.37 | 1,546.62 | 430,049.50 | 44,269.08 | 10.29 |
| Tropical | ||||||||||
| 14 Lowland evergreen broadleaf rainforest | 33.8 | 0.0 | 2,153.0 | 0.8 | 209.8 | 1,326.7 | 746.8 | 27,411.8 | 4,470.9 | 16.3 |
| 15 Lower montane forest | 3.4 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 33.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 413.0 | 37.3 | 9.0 |
| 16 Upper montane forest | 0.0 | 0.0 | 218.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1,030.5 | 218.7 | 21.2 |
| 17 Freshwater swamp forest | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 27.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| 18 Semi-evergreen moist broadleaf forest | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 364.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| 21 Mangrove | 62.9 | 0.0 | 9.0 | 3.4 | 217.3 | 1.5 | 2.0 | 4,316.8 | 296.1 | 6.9 |
| 23 Deciduous/semi-deciduous broadleaf forest | 99.5 | 0.0 | 57.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 47.8 | 22,423.3 | 204.4 | 0.9 |
| 24 Sclerophyllous dry forest | 6.9 | 0.0 | 7,407.9 | 0.1 | 58.4 | 1,171.3 | 1,114.3 | 97,914.3 | 9,758.9 | 10.0 |
| 26 Sparse trees/parkland | 4,973.8 | 0.0 | 37,418.6 | 126.7 | 229.2 | 1,064.0 | 916.2 | 587,859.3 | 44,728.5 | 7.6 |
| Total | 30,488.0 | 9,840.0 | 103,607.3 | 2,665.9 | 2,472.2 | 8,264.1 | 8,305.5 | 1,440,869.0 | 165,642.8 | 11.5 |
Click here for a summary pie chart of all forest type's protection by IUCN Category,
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