guinean, forests, west, africa, guinean, forests, west, africa, biodiversity, hotspot, designated, conservation, international, which, includes, belt, tropical, moist, broadleaf, forests, along, coast, west, africa, running, from, sierra, leone, guinea, west, . The Guinean forests of West Africa is a biodiversity hotspot designated by Conservation International which includes the belt of tropical moist broadleaf forests along the coast of West Africa running from Sierra Leone and Guinea in the west to the Sanaga River of Cameroon in the east The Dahomey Gap a region of savanna and dry forest in Togo and Benin divides the Guinean forests into the Upper Guinean forests and Lower Guinean forests Tropical rainforest near Konimbo Liberia 1968 An Aerial view of the Afi River Forest Reserve in Cross River State Nigeria Forest along the Sanaga River at Edea Cameroon The Upper Guinean forests extend from Sierra Leone and Guinea in the west through Liberia Cote d Ivoire and Ghana to Togo in the east The Lower Guinean forests extend east from Benin through Nigeria and Cameroon The Lower Guinean forests also extend south past the Sanaga River the southern boundary of the hotspot into southern Cameroon Equatorial Guinea Gabon Republic of the Congo Cabinda and Democratic Republic of the Congo According to some sources deforestation has already wiped out roughly 90 of West Africa s original forests 1 2 Contents 1 Ecoregions 2 See also 3 References 4 External linksEcoregions editThe World Wide Fund for Nature divides the Upper and Lower Guinean forests into a number of distinct ecoregions Upper Guinean forests Western Guinean lowland forests Guinea Sierra Leone Liberia Cote d Ivoire Guinean montane forests Guinea Sierra Leone Cote d Ivoire Eastern Guinean forests Cote d Ivoire Ghana Togo Benin Lower Guinean forests Nigerian lowland forests Benin Nigeria Niger Delta swamp forests Nigeria Cross Niger transition forests Nigeria Cross Sanaga Bioko coastal forests Nigeria Cameroon Equatorial Guinea Cameroonian Highlands forests Nigeria Cameroon Mount Cameroon and Bioko montane forests Cameroon Equatorial Guinea See also editGuineo Congolian regionReferences edit Forest Holocaust National Geographic Archived from the original on 22 April 2009 Retrieved 16 October 2008 Forests and deforestation in Africa the wasting of an immense resource Archived 2009 05 20 at the Wayback Machine afrol NewsExternal links editGUINEAN FORESTS OF WEST AFRICA nbsp This ecoregion article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte nbsp This West African location article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Guinean Forests of West Africa amp oldid 1183843704, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
