Africa is home to some rapidly developing economies, tremendous natural resources and remarkable social and ecological diversity. Forests are one of Africa’s most important natural resources, both for the influence they have in the continent’s ecology and for their economic benefits. However, in the continent the combination of unsustainable management and uncoordinated externally driven resource extraction with the additional influence of foreign direct investment and infrastructures are influencing the forest cover. Due to these, the continent is losing more than 4 million hectares (9.9 million acres) of forest every year; twice the world’s average deforestation rate. Thus, protecting the vanishing and vulnerable forests of Africa is extremely important.
Impact Factor
2022: 6.012
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