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Prominent land-use changes between 1 January <strong>1990</strong> and 31 December <strong>2013</strong> include:<br />

forest establishment of 182,189 hectares (classified as post-1989 forest) that has<br />

occurred mostly on land that was previously grassland, primarily low producing<br />

grassland. Approximately 22,857 hectares of this post-1989 forest has subsequently<br />

been deforested<br />

deforestation of 168,024 hectares. This includes the 22,857 hectares of post-1989<br />

forest mentioned above. This deforestation has occurred mainly in planted forests<br />

since 2004. Between <strong>1990</strong> and 2004, there was little deforestation of planted forests<br />

in New Zealand due to market conditions.<br />

Table 6.2.7 shows a land-use change matrix for the period 31 December 2012 to<br />

31 December <strong>2013</strong>.<br />

Land-use change from 2012 to <strong>2013</strong><br />

No new mapping has been completed in <strong>2013</strong>, therefore, most land-use changes for <strong>2013</strong><br />

have been linearly extrapolated based on changes mapped between 2008 and 2012. The<br />

only exceptions to this are afforestation and deforestation where the following surrogate<br />

data sets have been used to estimate land-use change in <strong>2013</strong>:<br />

deforestation of pre-<strong>1990</strong> planted forest and post-1989 forest have been estimated<br />

based on the <strong>2013</strong> Deforestation Survey (Manley, 2014)<br />

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deforestation of pre-<strong>1990</strong> natural forest has been estimated as occurring at the same<br />

annual rate as during the period of 2008 to 2012. There are no trends in the mapped<br />

pre-<strong>1990</strong> natural forest deforestation during the 2008 to 2012 period or obvious<br />

policy or market drivers to suggest a better approach to estimating the <strong>2013</strong><br />

deforestation than simple averaging<br />

afforestation of post-1989 planted forest is based on estimates from the National<br />

Exotic Forest Description (Ministry for Primary Industries, <strong>2013</strong>a).<br />

216 New Zealand’s Greenhouse Gas Inventory <strong>1990</strong>–<strong>2013</strong>

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