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GUINEAN FORESTS of WEST AFRICA 626,397 Km2 Equatorial Guinea Senegal Mali Guinea-Bissau Burkina Faso Guinea Benin Conakry Sierra Leone Nigeria Freetown Côte d’Ivoire Ghana Nzérékoré Ife Ado-Ekiti Ibadan Effon Alaiye Abeokuta Akure Kumasi Togo Benin City Monrovia Lagos Onitsha Bamenda Owerri Liberia Warri Uyo Bafoussam Accra Calabar Abidjan Aba Loum Port Harcourt Cameroon GUINEAN FORESTS OF WEST AFRICA 626,397 km2 Equatorial Guinea Gabon Guinean Forests of West Africa Hotspot Neighboring Hotspot Protected Area (IUCN Category I-IV) BIODIVERSITY TARGET Protected Area (IUCN Category V-VI) 2020 TARGET: 17% protected Protected Area (IUCN Category NA) Urban Area Agriculture (0-100% landuse) 2015: 17.7% PROTECTED 3.3% I-IV Roads .1% V-VI Kilometers 14.3% NA Railroads 0 250 500 750 GUINEAN FORESTS OF WEST AFRICA ECOREGIONS Shortfall Assessment to reach Target of 17% protected land in each terrestrial ecoregion 2 9 3 1 6 8 4 7 5 10 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 1,800 Kilometers ENDEMIC ANIMAL SPECIES 0 250 500 1,000 422 1. Western Guinean Lowland Forests 6. Eastern Guinean Forests 16,577 km2 remnant habitat 17,858 km2 remnant habitat To reach Aichi Target of 17% Target reached +3,885 km2 protected areas 7. Cross Niger Transition Forests 2. Guinean Montane Forests 7,309 km2 remnant habitat 16,766 km2 remnant habitat To reach Aichi Target of 17% +3,001 km2 protected areas To reach Aichi Target of 17% +2,100 km2 protected areas 8. Cross-Sanaga-Bioko Coastal Forests 36,171 km2 remnant habitat 3. Nigerian Lowland Forests 2 15,958 km remnant habitat Target reached Target reached 9. Cameroonian Highlands Forests 31,875 km2 remnant habitat 4. Niger Delta Swamp Forests To reach Aichi Target of 17% 8,098 km2 remnant habitat +1,219 km2 protected areas To reach Aichi Target of 17% +1,326 km2 protected areas 10. Sao Tome & Principe Moist Lowland Forests 597 km2 remnant habitat 5. Mount Cameroon & Bioko Montane Forests Target reached 320 km2 remnant habitat Kilometers Target reached 0 250 500 1,000 GUINEAN FORESTS OF WEST AFRICA | CONFLICTS Conflicts between 2030 projected urban growth areas and threatened species habitats 11 13 14 21 15 2 5 166 17 9 22 8 20 18 40,128,000 Population 4 26 23 1 10 7 3 24 25 19 2015 URBAN POPULATION 12 70,979,000 2030 URBAN POPULATION 136 THREATENED SPECIES Topography Water Body MAJOR CROPS Remnant Vegetation maize, rice, cassava, oil palm fruit Protected Area BIODIVERSITY THREATS Threatened Species Habitat Armed/Political Conflict Existing Urban Area Forest Loss and Fragmentation Urban Growth Projection Mining Conflict Zone Extreme Conflict Zone 0 200 500 1000km 1. ABA, NIGERIA 5. ADO-EKITI, NIGERIA POPULATION PROJECTIONS: POPULATION PROJECTIONS: 2015: 2030: 2015: 2030: 944,000 1,675,000 402,000 740,000 2. ABEOKUTA, NIGERIA 6. AKURE, NIGERIA POPULATION PROJECTIONS: POPULATION PROJECTIONS: 2015: 2030: 2015: 2030: 495,000 837,000 556,000 1,025,000 3. ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST 7. BAFOUSSAM, CAMEROON POPULATION PROJECTIONS: POPULATION PROJECTIONS: 2015: 2030: 2015: 2030: 4,860,000 7,773,000 350,000 564,000 Topography Water Body Remnant Vegetation Protected Area Threatened Species Habitat Existing Urban Area 4. ACCRA, GHANA 8. BAMENDA, CAMEROON POPULATION PROJECTIONS: POPULATION PROJECTIONS: Urban Growth Projection 2015: 2030: 2015: 2030: Conflict Zone 2,277,000 3,262,000 424,000 703,000 Extreme Conflict Zone 9. BENIN CITY, NIGERIA 13. EFFON ALAIYE, NIGERIA POPULATION PROJECTIONS: POPULATION PROJECTIONS: 2015: 2030: 2015: 2030: 1,496,000 2,667,000 329,000 594,000 10. CALABAR, NIGERIA 14. FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE POPULATION PROJECTIONS: POPULATION PROJECTIONS: 2015: 2030: 2015: 2030: 467,000 886,000 1,007,000 1,470,000 11. CONAKRY, GUINEA 15. IBADAN, NIGERIA POPULATION PROJECTIONS: POPULATION PROJECTIONS: 2015: 2030: 2015: 2030: 1,936,000 3,134,000 3,160,000 5,499,000 Topography Water Body Remnant Vegetation Protected Area Threatened Species Habitat Existing Urban Area 12. DOUALA, CAMEROON 16. IFE, NIGERIA POPULATION PROJECTIONS: POPULATION PROJECTIONS: Urban Growth Projection 2015: 2030: 2015: 2030: Conflict Zone 2,943,000 4,774,000 331,000 583,000 Extreme Conflict Zone 17. KUMASI, GHANA 21. NZEREKORE, GUINEA POPULATION PROJECTIONS: POPULATION PROJECTIONS: 2015: 2030: 2015: 2030: 2,599,000 4,215,000 346,000 642,000 18. LAGOS, NIGERIA 22. ONITSHA, NIGERIA POPULATION PROJECTIONS: POPULATION PROJECTIONS: 2015: 2030: 2015: 2030: 13,123,000 24,239,000 1,109,000 2,147,000 19. LOUM, CAMEROON 23. OWERRI, NIGERIA POPULATION PROJECTIONS: POPULATION PROJECTIONS: 2015: 2030: 2015: 2030: 362,000 646,000 716,000 1,337,000 Topography Water Body Remnant Vegetation Protected Area Threatened Species Habitat Existing Urban Area 20. MONROVIA, LIBERIA 24. PORT HARCOURT, NIGERIA POPULATION PROJECTIONS: POPULATION PROJECTIONS: Urban Growth Projection 2015: 2030: 2015: 2030: Conflict Zone 1,264,000 2,032,000 2,343,000 4,562,000 Extreme Conflict Zone 25. WARRI, NIGERIA POPULATION PROJECTIONS: 2015: 2030: 663,000 1,298,000 26. UYO, NIGERIA POPULATION PROJECTIONS: 2015: 2030: 847,000 1,709,000 Topography Water Body Remnant Vegetation Protected Area Threatened Species Habitat Existing Urban Area Urban Growth Projection Conflict Zone Extreme Conflict Zone.
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