. The Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forests: Africa. Zaire Table Estimates of forest extent Rain forests Lowland (closed) Louland (degraded) Montane Swamp Mangrove Totals (Based on analysis of Map See Map Legend on p. 282 for details of sources.) Table Timber production and expons from Zaire in 1985 Tnnber expons 1985 Area % of land Ve>ieer and satvlog (sq. km) area production by region 1985 Bas-Zaire 94,300 cu. m 919,736 86,547 59,487 124,741 Bandunda Equateur Haut-Zaire Other region 82,300 cu. 165,050 cu. 56,070 cu. s 22,400 cu. m m m m 226 ' interpreted
. The Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forests: Africa. Zaire Table Estimates of forest extent Rain forests Lowland (closed) Louland (degraded) Montane Swamp Mangrove Totals (Based on analysis of Map See Map Legend on p. 282 for details of sources.) Table Timber production and expons from Zaire in 1985 Tnnber expons 1985 Area % of land Ve>ieer and satvlog (sq. km) area production by region 1985 Bas-Zaire 94,300 cu. m 919,736 86,547 59,487 124,741 Bandunda Equateur Haut-Zaire Other region 82,300 cu. 165,050 cu. 56,070 cu. s 22,400 cu. m m m m 226 ' interpreted and produced by NASA m collaboration with FAO (see Map Legend for details). ^X'hite's (1983) map has been used to classili.' the forest into the t\'pes used throughout this Atlas, but his mosaic of swamp and lowland forest (categon.' 9) has been shown here as lowland forest as it is impossi- ble to distinguish between the two classes of forest using NASA's data. Figure depicts the position of this mosaic. NASA's cate- gory of 'Degraded Forest including shifting agncuhurc and palm' has been shown as degraded forest on Map The extent of the dif- ferent forest t\'pes as shown on Map is given in Table According to MacKinnon and MacKinnon (1986) there were originally 1,784,000 sq km of closed forest in Zaire (see Chapter Figure Map of Zaire showing the mosaic of swamp and lowland forest (categon- 9 in WTiite, 1983), which has been depicted as lowland forest in Map lOl Uwlond Foresl I Swamp Foresl [/^ Mosoic ot Swomp and Lowlond Foresl 10 and Table ). Our figure of 1,190,737 sq. km of moist for- est present in Zaire is, therefore, 67 per cent of what is estimated to have been the original forest cover. However, it must be noted that 86,547 sq. km of this is degraded. According to the figures in Table , the intact forest present today covers 62 per cent of its original area and extends over 49 per cent of the land area of Zaire. Differences bet
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