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Ituri Rainforest. The Congo Basin is the largest forest in Africa. More than 10,000 plant species can be found in and around the forest. [10] The humid forests cover 1.6 million km². [4] The Congo Basin is an important source of African teak, used for building furniture and flooring. An estimated 40 million people depend on these woodlands ...
Sapo National Park is a national park in Sinoe County, Liberia.It is the country's largest protected area of rainforest, [1] was the first national park established in the country, [2] [3] and contains the second-largest area of primary tropical rainforest in West Africa after Taï National Park in neighbouring Côte d'Ivoire. [4]
A Sapele tree in the Republic of the Congo. The Congolian rainforest is the world's second-largest tropical forest, after the Amazon rainforest.It covers over 500,000,000 acres (2,000,000 km 2) across six countries and contains a quarter of the world's remaining tropical forest.
The Baka people are considered the principal hunter-gatherers of the tropical rainforest of Central West Africa. [12] However, no group has been shown to subsist entirely on foraging. Groups establish temporary camps of huts constructed of bowed branches covered in large leaves (though today more and more homes are constructed following other ...
The Nigerian lowland forests, also known as the Nigerian rainforest, are tropical moist forest ecoregion in southwestern Nigeria and southeastern Benin.The ecoregion is densely populated and home to several large cities, including Lagos, Ibadan, and Benin City.
In West Africa, the forest zone refers to the southern part of the region once covered by tropical rainforest. Sometimes this region is referred to as Guinea to distinguish it from the grassland-covered Sudan, drier Sahel and per-arid Sahara. It is made-up of vegetation having mainly trees and consist of the following local biotic communities ...
An area of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. The tropical rainforests of South America contain the largest diversity of species on Earth. [1] [2] Tropical rainforest climate zones (Af). Tropical forests: from the UN FRA2000 report. Tropical rainforests are dense and warm rainforests with high rainfall typically found between 10° north and south ...
It is one of only 3 locations in Africa with a canopy walkway, [8] which is 350 metres (1,150 ft) long and connects seven tree tops which provides access to the forest. [6] [9] The most notable endangered species of fauna in the park are Diana monkey, [10] giant bongo antelope, [11] yellow-backed duiker [12] and African elephant. [13]