By Liliana Usvat
Blog 348-365
Statistics Canada give a view about logging industry and ownership of the forests in Canada.
Blog 348-365
Statistics Canada give a view about logging industry and ownership of the forests in Canada.
| Forest area by classification (hectares) | |
|---|---|
| Forest land | 347,575,750 |
| Other land with tree cover | 8,498,940 |
| Other wooded land | 40,865,660 |
| Total area | 396,940,350 |
| Forest area change (hectares, 2013) | |
| Deforestation | 45,800 |
| Forest ownership | |
| Provincial | 76.6% |
| Territorial | 12.9% |
| Private | 6.2% |
| Aboriginal | 2.0% |
| Federal | 1.6% |
| Insects (hectares, 2013) | |
|---|---|
| Area defoliated by insects and containing beetle-killed trees | 20,129,334 |
| Fires (2014) | |
| Area burned (hectares) | 4,563,848 |
| Number of fires | 5,127 |
| Harvesting (2013) | |
|---|---|
| Area harvested (hectares) | 738,836 |
| Volume harvested (cubic metres) | 152,076,000 |
| Regeneration (hectares, 2013) | |
| Area planted | 387,395 |
| Area seeded | 10,492 |
| Third-party certification (hectares, 2014) | |
| Area certified | 160,856,360 |
| Protected forest (IUCN categories) | |
| Ia Strict nature reserve | 0.10% |
| Ib Wilderness area | 1.90% |
| II Ecosystem conservation and protection | 4.20% |
| III Conservation of natural features | 0.50% |
| IV Conservation through active management | 0.20% |
| V Landscape conservation and recreation | 0.02% |
| For forest lands affected by land-use change (2013) | |
|---|---|
| CO2e removals from the atmosphere due to afforestation (megatonnes) | 0.6 |
| CO2e emissions due to deforestation (megatonnes) | 3.1 |
| For managed forests (2013) | |
| Area of managed forests (hectares) | 232,000,000 |
| CO2e net removals due to forest biomass and dead organic matter (megatonnes) | 143.0 |
| CO2e net emissions to the atmosphere (megatonnes) | -19.0 |
| Links: https://cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/statsprofile | |
|---|---|
| Contribution to real GDP (constant 2007 dollars, 2014) | |
| Forestry and logging industry | 3,830,000,000 |
| Pulp and paper product manufacturing industry | 6,998,000,000 |
| Wood product manufacturing industry | 9,308,000,000 |
| Total contribution to real GDP | 20,136,000,000 |
| Employment (number, 2014) | |
| Labour Force Survey | 232,700 |
| Survey of Employment, Payrolls and Hours | 185,659 |
| Wages and salaries (dollars, 2012) | 8,656,795,000 |
| Capital expenditures (dollars, 2013) | 2,173,700,000 |
| Repair expenditures (dollars, 2012) | 2,710,900,000 |
| Revenue from goods manufactured (dollars, 2012) | 53,159,908,000 |
| Balance of trade (total exports, dollars, 2014) | 20,713,209,235 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Value of domestic exports (dollars, 2014) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Primary wood products | 1,301,203,443 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pulp and paper products | 16,839,424,399 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wood-fabricated materials | 12,633,143,321 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total value of exports | 30,773,771,163 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Value of imports (dollars, 2014) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Primary wood products | 474,245,946 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pulp and paper products | 6,528,638,374 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wood-fabricated materials | 3,057,677,608 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total value of imports | 10,060,561,928 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
