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Australia’s forests and forestry glossary

Deforestation

A type of land clearing involving the permanent removal of forest cover. The Kyoto Protocol and various carbon emission reduction initiatives use specific definitions of deforestation.

See Afforestation, Forest, Reforestation.

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