Sizeable forest areas containing rattans were converted into other plantations, mostly of oil palm or rubber trees.
These policies have resulted in a sizeable wood plantation resource and processing industry, whereby the forest products industry contributes $NZ4.5 billion and $A6.3 billion to national gross domestic product (GDP) in New Zealand and Australia respectively.
Once inside the sizeable wood of tall firs and holm oaks, a rough forest track winds its way upwards to the main frontline that was once "home" to around 4,000 troops.
Dr Nabuurs said that the rate of afforestation was slowing because a sizeable proportion of forests were mature stands of trees that were mainly planted in the early part of the 20th Century or in the post-World War II period.
Although western North America has been hardest hit by insect infestations, sizeable areas of forest in Australia, Russia, France, and other countries have experienced die-offs, most of which appears to have been caused by drought, high temperatures, or both.
Of the island countries, only Fiji and New Caledonia, both countries with sizeable maturing planted forest resources, are projected to increase production over the period to 2010.
If both Brazilian and international NGOs come to their aid their lands and a sizeable chunk of Amazon forest biodiversity may be secured.
A sizeable fraction of global pristine forests has already been converted into agricultural areas2, and this process is ongoing, particularly in tropical regions11,12.
"It is only worthwhile moving on once there are no sizeable trees left in the forest".
This inset of a new map shows just how much of the intact forest in a sizeable portion of the Amazon has been degraded (light green) from 2000 to 2013.
It turned out that second-growth forests made up a sizeable fraction: In 2008, 17% of forest was 20 years old or younger, and another 11% was between 20 and 60 years old (above).
