What this atlas can—and cannot—show

The shapes come from ABARES’ 2020–21 National Plantation Inventory. They show plantation land and broad type. They do not contain owner, species, harvest date, age or parcel-level production.

The first selectable layer is the official set of 15 National Plantation Inventory regions—economic wood-supply zones created for consistent industry reporting. Individual coloured plantation polygons can also be selected for their mapped area and broad type.

The plantation source does not publish polygon-level species, owner, age, harvest date or production. Those details must remain regional. To keep the mobile map responsive, polygons smaller than 10 hectares are omitted; the displayed polygons retain about 95% of mapped plantation area.

Processing and port points are a curated national orientation layer, not a complete census. Symbol diameter is linearly scaled within each node class using the baseline value model: processor output sales for mills and Australian-origin cargo value for ports. Allocated imports are excluded from port rankings because no observed port split is public. Hollow port symbols still flag gateways without a current public forestry-throughput figure. These are modelled comparison values, not reported site revenue or profit.

When you tap a shape, this atlas adds carefully sourced regional context. It never claims that a named company operates the exact parcel selected.

Current national and state totals use ABARES 2024–25 data. Regional species use 2022–23 State of the Forests reporting.