Forest Resources of Africa: An Approach to International Forest Resource Appraisals. Part II: Regional Analyses

摘要

This report describes the present forestry situation of Africa and the future. Country-by-country summary-tables of the most important figures about different aspects of forestry are given in an Appendix. The total closed forest area is 190 million ha or a few million more if a wider definition is accepted. The area of open woodlands of different types is about 600 million ha. The area covered by man-made forests is at least 3 million ha and may be as much as 3.5 million ha in 1976. Of this area, one-third consists of pines and one-third of eucalypts. The total gross volume of wood is roughly calculated as about 60,000 million m cu m of which about two-thirds is found in closed forest types. If the present exploitation of the wood resources continues large regions of Africa will suffer in the future from a deficit of fuelwood.