The area of commercial plantations rose from  to  between 2000 and 2006. The export of 2 000 tonnes of sandalwood a year is primarily sourced from wild stands of the remote rangelands and Goldfields region of Western Australia.
Between 2000 and 2006, the area under commercial plantations increased from  to  . The majority of the annual 2,000-tonne sandalwood export comes from the wild stands in the isolated rangelands and Goldfields area of Western Australia.