❓ Hon Diane Evers inquires about the Comprehensive, Adequate and Representative (CAR) areas in the Southwest Regional Forest Agreement (RFA). The Minister provides a map and details changes to the CAR reserve system over the past 10 years, including increases in hectares.
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I refer to the Regional Forest Agreement, and I ask: (a) will the Minister please table a map showing the current Comprehensive Adequate and Representative areas (CARs) in the Southwest; (b) if no to (a), why not; (c) have any changes to CARs been made in the past 10 years; and (d) if yes to (c), please provide details, including the reasons for any changes.?
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Answered
12 May 2020
Responded by
Minister for Environment
Response time
9 days
(a) See tabled paper no #.
This map depicts the extent of the comprehensive, adequate and representative (CAR) reserve system as at 30 June 2018, as updated through the process to extend the Regional Forest Agreement (RFA) for the south-west of WA. This map is available online at page 47 of the document titled “2019 Western Australian RFA variation PDF” available from the Commonwealth Government Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment website at agriculture.gov.au/forestry/policies/rfa/regions/wa .
(b) Not applicable.
(c) Yes.
(d) The CAR reserve system comprises gazetted reserves, formal reserves proposed under the Forest Management Plan 2014-2023 , and CAR informal reserves. Changes to components of the CAR reserve system have progressively arisen during the Regional Forest Agreement 1999-2019. Overall, there has been a substantial increase in the extent of the CAR reserve system, with 203,000 hectares added between 1999 and 2009 and a further 38,000 hectares added up to mid-2018. Changes arise from:
This map depicts the extent of the comprehensive, adequate and representative (CAR) reserve system as at 30 June 2018, as updated through the process to extend the Regional Forest Agreement (RFA) for the south-west of WA. This map is available online at page 47 of the document titled “2019 Western Australian RFA variation PDF” available from the Commonwealth Government Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment website at agriculture.gov.au/forestry/policies/rfa/regions/wa .
(b) Not applicable.
(c) Yes.
(d) The CAR reserve system comprises gazetted reserves, formal reserves proposed under the Forest Management Plan 2014-2023 , and CAR informal reserves. Changes to components of the CAR reserve system have progressively arisen during the Regional Forest Agreement 1999-2019. Overall, there has been a substantial increase in the extent of the CAR reserve system, with 203,000 hectares added between 1999 and 2009 and a further 38,000 hectares added up to mid-2018. Changes arise from:
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