TABLE 2 FOREST AREA AND AREA CHANGE Land Forest area, Forest 000ha) 2000 %o of land Area per Annual rate 000ha) 5262 11063 56673 12427 Burkina Faso Burundi Central African Republic 62297 Chad 125920 12692 101 Congo 60 64.6 224 Dem Rep. of the Congo 226705135207 9.6 Djibouti 2317 0. Equatorial Guinea 2805 Guinea-Bissau 3612 56915 17096 300 Lesotho 1318 Mauritania 0.3 0 Mauritius 79 Morocco 44630 3025 0.1 78409 5340 3060 Namibia 82329 8040 9.8 126670 0.1 91077 13517 148 0.1 398 2.6 Reunion 28 Saint Helena ao Tome and Principe Sierra Leone South africa 21758 917 155 United Republic of Tanzania Western Sahara Bambi 339 31246 42 3.5 75 Zimbabwe Note: The regional breakdown reflects geographic rather than economic or political groupings132 .groupings political or economic than rather geographic reflects breakdown regional The: Note 2 TABLE CHANGE AREA AND AREA FOREST ,change cover Forest, area Forest area Land area/Country 2000–1990 2000) ha 000(‘ rate Annual Annual Forest per Area land of % Total change of change plantations capita area forest (%) (ha 000) (‘ha 000) (‘ha) (ha 000(‘ 8.0 -262 5 -036 8 8.0 8.21 866 649 394 978 2 Africa 3.1 27 718 1.0 9.0 145 2 174 238 Algeria 2.0 -124 -141 6.5 0.56 756 69 670 124 Angola 3.2 -70 -112 4.0 0.24 650 2 063 11 Benin 9.0 -118 -1 8.7 9.21 427 12 673 56 Botswana 2.0 -15 -67 6.0 9.25 089 7 360 27 Faso Burkina 0.9 -15 -73. s.n 7.3 94 568 2 Burundi 9.0 -222 -80 6.1 3.51 858 23 540 46 Cameroon 3.9 5 85 2.0 1.21 85 403 Verde Cape 1.0 -30 -4 5.6 8.36 907 22 297 62 Republic African Central 6.0 -82 -14 7.1 1.10 692 12 920 125 Chad 3.4. -s.n 2. s.n 3.4 8 186 Comoros 1.0 -17 -83 7.7 6.64 060 22 150 34 Congo 1.3 -265 -184 5.0 4.22 117 7 800 31 Ivoire’d Cote 4.0 -532 -97 7.2 6.59 207 135 705 226 Congo the of. Rep. Dem .s.n. s.n. - s.n 3.0 6 317 2 Djibouti 3.3 2 72. s.n 1.0 72 545 99 Egypt 6.0 -11 -0.4 5.62 752 1 805 2 Guinea Equatorial 3.0 -5 -22 4.0 5.13 585 1 759 11 Eritrea 8.0 -40 -216 1.0 2.4 593 4 430 110 Ethiopia .s.n 10 -36 2.18 7.84 826 21 767 25 Gabon 0.1 4 2 4.0 1.48 481 000 1 Gambia 7.1 -120 -76 3.0 8.27 335 6 754 22 Ghana 5.0 -35 -25 9.0 2.28 929 6 572 24 Guinea 9.0 -22 -2 8.1 5.60 187 2 612 3 Bissau-Guinea 5.0 -93 -232 6.0 0.30 096 17 915 56 Kenya .s.n. s.n 14. s.n 5.0 14 035 3 Lesotho 0.2 -76 -119 2.1 3.31 481 3 137 11 Liberia 4.1 5 168 1.0 2.0 358 954 175 Jamahiriya Arab Libyan 9.0 -117 -350 8.0 2.20 727 11 154 58 Madagascar 4.2 -71 -112 2.0 2.27 562 2 409 9 Malawi 7.0 -99 -15 2.1 8.10 186 13 019 122 Mali 7.2 -10 -25 1.0 3.0 317 522 102 Mauritania 6.0. -s.n 13. s.n 9.7 16 202 Mauritius .s.n 1 -534 1.0 8.6 025 3 630 44 Morocco 2.0 -64 -50 6.1 0.39 601 30 409 78 Mozambique 9.0 -73. -s.n 7.4 8.9 040 8 329 82 Namibia 7.3 -62 -73 1.0 0.1 328 1 670 126 Niger 6.2 -398 -693 1.0 8.14 517 13 077 91 Nigeria 8.0 -1 -3 1.0 4.28 71 250 Réunion 9.3 -15 -261. s.n 4.12 307 466 2 Rwanda .s.n. s.n 2 3.0 5.6 2 31 Helena Saint .s.n. s.n - 2.0 3.28 27 95 Principe and Tome Sao 7.0 -45 -263 7.0 2.32 205 6 252 19 Senegal .s.n. s.n 5 4.0 7.66 30 45 Seychelles 9.2 -36 -6 2.0 7.14 055 1 162 7 Leone Sierra 0.1 -77 -3 8.0 0.12 515 7 734 62 Somalia 1.0 -8 -554 1 2.0 3.7 917 8 758 121 Africa South 4.1 -959 -641 1.2 9.25 627 61 600 237 Sudan 2.1 6 161 5.0 3.30 522 721 1 Swaziland 4.3 -21 -38 1.0 4.9 510 439 5 Togo 2.0 1 202 1.0 1.3 510 362 16 Tunisia 0.2 -91 -43 2.0 0.21 190 4 964 19 Uganda 2.0 -91 -135 2.1 9.43 811 38 359 88 Tanzania of Republic United .s.n. s.n - 5.0 6.0 152 600 26 Sahara Western 4.2 -851 -75 5.3 0.42 246 31 339 74 Zambia 5.1 -320 -141 7.1 2.49 040 19 685 38 Zimbabwe