0.08 % might not sound like much, but when you consider the
total area covered by forests
around the
world, a small fraction of a very big number is still a big number.
It is a culturally diverse society with a population of more than 22 million.21 Australia's population includes Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) peoples and migrants from some 200 countries with Indigenous Australian peoples representing 2.5 % of the
total population.22 In over 60 years of planned post-war migration, Australia has accepted more than 6.5 million migrants and in the most recent census (2006), 3.1 million people (16 % of the population) were reported to speak a language other than English at home.23 The majority of the population lives in the cities mainly located
around the coast; however, many live in rural and remote
areas ranging from dry arid land to tropical and a few live in what are arguably some of the most remote and untouched
areas of the
world.