Deforestation in Africa

In Africa, family communities depend on the use of wood as fuel to prepare daily meals, sell charcoal made from wood and purchase food for families, so that forests Destruction has become more serious. For most families in Africa it is their way of living to use charcoal on charcoal. Without such resources, they would make it hard to survive. The dependence on trees increases during the dry season and during the floods, and they rely on trees as fuel.

According to the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), deforestation affects Africa twice as fast as Africa. According to the Africa Research Center of the University of Pennsylvania, 31% of African meadows, 19% of forests and forests are classified as degraded, Africa loses more than 4 million hectares of forest annually, which is average forest It is twice the reduction rate. The rest of the world Some sources say that about 90% of the West African virgin forest has been destroyed. Over 90% of Madagascar's primeval forest has been destroyed since the arrival of humanity before 2000 years. Approximately 65% ​​of the farmland in Africa is suffering from soil degradation

According to the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), there are twice as many deforested areas in the world in Africa. According to one forest, deforestation has claimed that it has depleted about 90% of the West African forests. Forest deforestation in the Central African Republic is accelerating. According to FAO, in the 1980's, from the 1990's to the early 2000's, Africa lost the highest proportion of tropical forests on any continent. According to FAO (1997), only 22.8% of West Africa's wet forests still exist, most of which are devastated. Nigeria lost 81% of its original forest between 1990 and 2005 in only 15 years. Large-scale deforestation threatens food security in some African countries. One factor contributing to the high deforestation rate in the continent is that 90% of the population depends on timber as a fuel for heating and cooking.