AFRICA

The Central African region contains over eighty percent of the total rain forests on the African continent. The forests are located in a region of central Africa often referred to as the Congo Basin. This Basin spans over numerous countries that include Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, and Burundi. In addition, Madagascar has moist forest in a stretch along the eastern side and dry forests in the west.

Central Africa houses one of the most abundant sources of biodiversity in the world. One quarter of the world's rainforests and over thirty million species inhabit the Central African rain forests. Due to deforestation, urban expansion, and agricultural demands, flora and fauna are under increased pressure for survival.

These forests contain the second largest block of closed canopy habitat in the world, second only to Brazil and represent unique eco-systems and an essential support for the livelihoods of African people, especially the poor.

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Sub sections:

• Benin
• Burundi
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Congo Basin
• Cote d'Ivoire
• Democratic Republic of Congo
• Equatorial Guinea
• Gabon
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Guinea-Bissau
• Guinea-Conakry
• Kenya
• Liberia
• Madagascar
• Malawi
• Mozambique
• Namibia
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Republic of Congo
• Rwanda
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Somalia
• South Africa
• Sudan
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Uganda
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

DOCUMENTS

DATE	TITLE	AUTHOR
01/12/2004	Forest governance learning group: Update December 2004 This is the second Update from the forest governance learning group, an informal alliance of in-country ...	International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
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01/12/2004	Take Action To Defend The World’s Forests "Take Action To Defend The World’s Forests" documents the links between worldwide forest ...	Sierra Club
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24/03/2004	Research Update from Global Witness News on Global Witness's latest work ...	Global Witness
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01/03/2003	Emerging best practices for combating illegal activities in the forestry sector This document focuses on emerging best practices to bring illegal activities under control in the forestry ...	Global Witness and Arnoldo Contreras-Hermosilla
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NEWS

DATE	TITLE	AUTHOR
16/06/2005	Illegal Logging As Bane of Timber Sector Cameroonian timber exploiters, working under the banner of the Association of Inter-African Forestry ...	AllAfrica.com
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22/04/2005	Changing International Markets for Timber: What African Producers can do The UK Timber Trade Federation (TTF) and Inter-African Forest Industries Association (IFIA) have joined ...	TTF (UK)
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14/04/2005	NW Forest Delegate Bans Timber 'Importation' Cameroon: Building construction and woodwork activities in the Northwest Province are fast grinding to ...	AllAfrica.com
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17/03/2005	Letter: Our pledge on forestry products "As some of the largest companies that own concessions in Africa and import timber, we would like ...	The Guardian (UK)
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05/02/2005	Rainforest treaty for Central Africa is fundamentally flawed, say environmental and human rights groups A new international treaty aimed at protecting the rainforests of the Congo Basin will actually promote ...	Rainforest Foundation UK
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21/07/2004	Destroying Our Forests Editorial - The Ghanian Chronicle - THE CONTINUING despoilation of our forest resources by timber companies ...	Ghanian Chronicle
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14/06/2004	Save Our Forests Editorial, Ghanian Chronicle: We seem to treat our natural resources as if they were not finite and would ...	Ghanian Chronicle
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14/06/2004	A plan for conservation on a continental scale Concerns over a serious decline in moisture levels in the Ndoki rainforest in the north east of the DRC, ...	International Herald Tribune
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11/05/2004	Group Mobilises Students Against Illegal Logging A Nigeria based NGO has initiated a novel campaign to alert the nation on the illegal logging and destructive ...	allAfrica.com
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27/04/2004	Timber Companies Agree to Oversight in Africa Industry groups have invited Global Forest Watch to monitor their logging operations ...	World Resources Institute
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18/11/2003	Halt Logging for 10 Years - Lawmaker Recommends A member of the Transitional Legislative Assembly (TLA) has recommended that a moratorium be placed on ...	allAfrica.com
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16/10/2003	AFLEG agrees ministerial declaration Africa Forest Law Enforcement and Governance (AFLEG) Conference concludes with agreement on ministerial ...
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15/10/2003	Important steps to stop illegal logging in West and Central Africa WWF today announced the formation of a Producers Group for West and Central Africa composed of logging ...
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27/08/2003	African states work to save forest Six African states are far advanced in a plan to save the world's second largest rain forest and ...	AllAfrica.com
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LINKS

TITLE	DESCRIPTION	REPORT
Inter-African Forest Industry Association	Founded in 1996, IFIA gathers together some 300 enterprises employing more than 100,000 individuals belonging to the various commercial and industrial associations throughout Western and Central Africa.	Broken link
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