"...Australia and its States are committed to a National Forest Policy which will ensure the development of a Comprehensive, Adequate and Representative forest reserve system... Reserves will be established according to nationally agreed criteria:
- 15 per cent of the distribution of each forest ecosystem
that existed prior to Europeans arriving in Australia;
- 60 per cent or more of existing old growth forest;
- 60 per cent or more of existing vulnerable forest ecosystems;
- 90 per cent or more of high quality wilderness; and
- remaining occurrences of rare and endangered forest ecosystems including old growth."
John Anderson, Minister for Primary Industries and Energy and Robert Hill, Minister for the Environment, 26/2/97
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