geolinde

AFRICA STATISTICS

Land area: 29,635,976km²

Area of forest: 8,182,057.8 km²

% Land area forested: 27.6

Forest Type

Area Protected (km²) in IUCN Categories I-VI:

Total Forest (km²)

Total Protected (km²)

% Protected

Ia

Ib

II

III

IV

V

VI

Temperate and Boreal

3 Mixed broadleaf/needleleaf forest

330.2

19.9

376.5

0.0

11.4

1,005.1

0.0

32,627.0

1,742.9

5.3

5 Deciduous broadleaf forest

267.3

0.0

1,505.7

0.2

2,092.1

25.8

631.4

140,727.0

4,522.5

3.2

7 Sclerophyllous dry forest

16.8

0.0

77.9

0.0

37.9

0.0

0.0

17,446.8

132.6

0.8

9 Sparse trees/parkland

141.7

1.5

1,009.2

0.0

2,003.9

27.5

1,568.9

253,001.3

4,752.6

1.9

Tropical

14 Lowland evergreen broadleaf rainforest

1,426.9

596.0

75,428.3

0.0

27,203.9

0.0

22,516.0

1,685,243.8

127,171.0

7.5

15 Lower montane forest

0.0

0.0

124.3

0.0

96.5

13.8

149.5

33,232.3

384.1

1.2

16 Upper montane forest

876.9

0.0

8,166.2

0.0

3,890.0

0.0

12,211.5

156,341.3

25,144.6

16.1

17 Freshwater swamp forest

342.7

0.0

2,262.8

0.0

77.4

0.0

193.9

196,729.0

2,876.8

1.5

18 Semi-evergreen moist broadleaf forest

0.0

0.0

1,897.4

0.0

662.6

14.7

293.1

47,512.3

2,867.8

6.0

21 Mangrove

13.3

0.0

360.7

0.0

645.3

0.0

159.6

53,804.5

1,178.9

2.2

22 Disturbed natural forest

854.8

7.9

2,125.9

0.0

3,825.6

0.0

1,152.2

414,479.8

7,966.4

1.9

23 Deciduous/semi-deciduous broadleaf forest

1,280.5

358.6

95,146.6

48.4

82,752.0

225.7

91,375.6

2,243,589.8

271,187.4

12.1

25 Thorn forest

0.0

0.0

1,117.8

0.0

770.7

0.0

8,176.1

192,927.0

10,064.6

5.2

26 Sparse trees/parkland

927.7

7.6

144,383.8

1,477.4

87,759.2

9.1

64,838.9

2,714,396.3

299,403.7

11.0

Total

6,478.6

991.5

333,983.0

1,526.0

211,828.6

1,321.7

203,266.6

8,182,057.8

759,396.0

9.3