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The land area of Victoria, Australia is estimated to have had 88% forest coverage totaling 199,830 km2 in 1869 during early European colonisation of Victoria.[note 1][1][2] This was at a time between the 1861 and 1871 censuses of the colony of Victoria in which the number of inhabitants of the colony were estimated to number between 540,322 (1861) and 729,654 (1871), and the number of houses were estimated to number between 134,332 (1861) and 160,410 (1871).[3] By 1987, deforestation had led to the forested areas of Victoria declining to 35% (79,656 km2) of the total land area.[note 1][1] From the 1980s onwards the logging and clearing of old growth native forests was challenged by environmentalists, including through the use of nonviolent direct action.[4]
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- ^ a b Woodgate, Peter; Black, Peter (October 1988). Forest Cover Changes in Victoria 1869-1987 (PDF) (Report). Remote Sensing Group, Lands and Forests Division, Department of Conservation, Forests and Lands, State of Victoria. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-11-11. Retrieved 2022-06-02.
- ^ Victoria's Forests Forests Factsheet (Report). Victorian Government Department of Sustainability and Environment. June 2006. ISSN 1440-2262. Archived from the original on 2022-06-01. Retrieved 2022-06-02.
- ^ Australian Bureau Of Statistics; Australian Data Archive; Smith, Len; Rowse, Tim; Hungerford, Stuart (2021), Historical and Colonial Census Data Archive (HCCDA), Australian Data Archive, Australian Data Archive, ADA Dataverse, doi:10.26193/mp6wrs, archived from the original on 2022-06-01, retrieved 2022-06-01
- ^ McIntyre, Iain (2020-11-04). "Environmental Blockading in Australia and Around the World - Timeline 1974-1997". The Commons Social Change Library. Retrieved 2023-07-07.