Location:
Cote d'Ivorie rainforest is in Western Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between Ghana and Liberia.
The Resource:
"There are rainforests south of the eighth parallel that are the remains of a forest that covered 14.5 million ha some forty years ago but has since then suffered intense pressure from farmers who have destroyed most of it. In addition, there are about 500,000 ha of closed dry forests of Anogeissus leiocarpus in association with Cola cordifolia, Antiaris africana and Chlorophora excelsa, whose islands succeed those of rainforest in the north of Côte d'Ivoire." - FAO
Cause of Problem:
"This biologically rich country has been deforested over 80% of its original cover. Agriculture, uncontrolled fires, and logging for tropical woods (once Ivory Coast's largest export by volume) are the primary causes of forest loss." Read More
Other Environmental Issues:
"deforestation; most of the country's forests and once the largest in West Africa, have been heavily logged; water pollution from sewage and industrial and agricultural effluents." - CIA
Rhett A. Butler's Assessment :
Ivory Coast has some of the most diversity of any West African country with over 1000 animals species, 232 mammal species, and 4700 plant species... Read More
