Queensland - Snapshots of landscape & climate
Queensland at a glance:
- 173 million hectares total land area (23% of Australia)
- 56 million hectares of forest present in 2003
- 3.5 million hectares of forest cleared from 1989-2002
- 631 million tonnes greenhouse emissions from deforestation since 1989 - equivalent to 61 times current annual emissions from all of Australia's passenger vehicles
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