GUINEAN FORESTS OF WEST AFRICA 626,397 km 2
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1 Senegal Mali Guinea-Bissau Burkina Faso Guinea Conakry Sierra Leone Benin Nigeria Freetown Monrovia Nzérékoré Liberia Côte d Ivoire Abidjan Ghana Kumasi Accra Togo Ibadan Abeokuta Lagos Ife Ado-Ekiti Effon Alaiye Akure Benin City Onitsha Owerri Warri Uyo Calabar Aba Port Harcourt Loum Bamenda Bafoussam Cameroon GUINEAN FORESTS OF WEST AFRICA 626,397 km 2 Equatorial Guinea Gabon Guinean Forests of West Africa Hotspot Neighboring Hotspot BIODIVERSITY TARGET 2020 TARGET: 17% protected (IUCN Category I-IV) (IUCN Category V-VI) (IUCN Category NA) Urban Area 17.7% PROTECTED 3.3% I-IV.1% V-VI 14.3% NA Agriculture (0-100% landuse) Roads Railroads Kilometers
2 GUINEAN FORESTS OF WEST AFRICA ECOREGIONS Shortfall Assessment to reach Target of 17% protected land in each terrestrial ecoregion Benin, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Sao Tome & Principe, Sierra Leone, Togo 2 BIOMES Tropical & Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas & Shrublands Tropical & Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests 10 ECOREGIONS ENDEMIC PLANT SPECIES 1, ,000 Kilometers ENDEMIC ANIMAL SPECIES 422
3 1. Western Guinean Lowland Forests 16,577 km 2 remnant habitat 6. Eastern Guinean Forests 17,858 km 2 remnant habitat +3,885 km 2 protected areas 7. Cross Niger Transition Forests 2. Guinean Montane Forests 16,766 km 2 remnant habitat +2,100 km 2 protected areas 7,309 km 2 remnant habitat +3,001 km 2 protected areas 8. Cross-Sanaga-Bioko Coastal Forests 36,171 km 2 remnant habitat 3. Nigerian Lowland Forests 15,958 km 2 remnant habitat 9. Cameroonian Highlands Forests 31,875 km 2 remnant habitat 4. Niger Delta Swamp Forests 8,098 km 2 remnant habitat +1,326 km 2 protected areas +1,219 km 2 protected areas 10. Sao Tome & Principe Moist Lowland Forests 597 km 2 remnant habitat 5. Mount Cameroon & Bioko Montane Forests 320 km 2 remnant habitat ,000 Kilometers
4 GUINEAN FORESTS OF WEST AFRICA CONFLICTS Conflicts between 2030 projected urban growth areas and threatened species habitats ,128,000 Population 2015 URBAN POPULATION 70,979, URBAN POPULATION 136 THREATENED SPECIES MAJOR CROPS maize, rice, cassava, oil palm fruit km BIODIVERSITY THREATS Armed/Political Conflict Forest Loss and Fragmentation Mining
5 1. ABA, NIGERIA 944,000 1,675, ADO-EKITI, NIGERIA 402, , ABEOKUTA, NIGERIA 495, , AKURE, NIGERIA 556,000 1,025, ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST 4,860,000 7,773, BAFOUSSAM, CAMEROON 350, , ACCRA, GHANA 2,277,000 3,262, BAMENDA, CAMEROON 424, ,000
6 9. BENIN CITY, NIGERIA 1,496,000 2,667, EFFON ALAIYE, NIGERIA 329, , CALABAR, NIGERIA 467, , FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE 1,007,000 1,470, CONAKRY, GUINEA 1,936,000 3,134, IBADAN, NIGERIA 3,160,000 5,499, DOUALA, CAMEROON 2,943,000 4,774, IFE, NIGERIA 331, ,000
7 17. KUMASI, GHANA 2,599,000 4,215, NZEREKORE, GUINEA 346, , LAGOS, NIGERIA 13,123,000 24,239, ONITSHA, NIGERIA 1,109,000 2,147, LOUM, CAMEROON 362, , OWERRI, NIGERIA 716,000 1,337, MONROVIA, LIBERIA 1,264,000 2,032, PORT HARCOURT, NIGERIA 2,343,000 4,562,000
8 25. WARRI, NIGERIA 663,000 1,298, UYO, NIGERIA 847,000 1,709,000
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