Deforestation in Angola

Annually, Angola loses about 124,800 hectares or 0.20% per year. In 1990–2010, the country had lost about 2,496,000 hectares or 4.1% in total.[1]

Angola had a 2018 Forest Landscape Integrity Index mean score of 8.35/10, ranking it 23rd globally out of 172 countries.[2]

History

Angola did the first inventory of its forest in 2008 with 199 samples.[3]

Region

The provinces of Cabinda, Cuando Cubango, Moxico and Uíge have the highest level of forest exploitation for timber production.

Tree cover extent and loss

Global Forest Watch publishes annual estimates of tree cover loss and 2000 tree cover extent derived from time-series analysis of Landsat satellite imagery in the Global Forest Change dataset.[4][5][6][7] In this framework, tree cover refers to vegetation taller than 5 m (including natural forests and tree plantations), and tree cover loss is defined as the complete removal of tree cover canopy for a given year, regardless of cause.[8]

For Angola, country statistics report cumulative tree cover loss of 4,230,235 ha (42,302.35 km2) from 2001 to 2024 (about 7.7% of its 2000 tree cover area).[4] For tree cover density greater than 30%, country statistics report a 2000 tree cover extent of 55,276,135 ha (552,761.35 km2).[4] The charts and table below display this data. In simple terms, the annual loss number is the area where tree cover disappeared in that year, and the extent number shows what remains of the 2000 tree cover baseline after subtracting cumulative loss. Forest regrowth is not included in the dataset.[4][8]


050010001500200025003000200120052009201320172021Annual tree cover loss (km²)
Annual tree cover loss in Angola, 2001–2024.[4] View chart definition.


510,000520,000530,000540,000550,000560,000200020052010201520202025Extent minus cumulative loss (km²)
Tree cover extent in 2000 minus cumulative tree cover loss in Angola, 2001–2024 (loss-only residual; does not account for gain).[4] View chart definition.


Notes

  1. ^ This residual measure does not include forest regrowth.

References

  1. ^ "Angola Forest Information and Data". Mongabay. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
  2. ^ Grantham, H. S.; Duncan, A.; Evans, T. D.; Jones, K. R.; Beyer, H. L.; Schuster, R.; Walston, J.; Ray, J. C.; Robinson, J. G.; Callow, M.; Clements, T.; Costa, H. M.; DeGemmis, A.; Elsen, P. R.; Ervin, J.; Franco, P.; Goldman, E.; Goetz, S.; Hansen, A.; Hofsvang, E.; Jantz, P.; Jupiter, S.; Kang, A.; Langhammer, P.; Laurance, W. F.; Lieberman, S.; Linkie, M.; Malhi, Y.; Maxwell, S.; Mendez, M.; Mittermeier, R.; Murray, N. J.; Possingham, H.; Radachowsky, J.; Saatchi, S.; Samper, C.; Silverman, J.; Shapiro, A.; Strassburg, B.; Stevens, T.; Stokes, E.; Taylor, R.; Tear, T.; Tizard, R.; Venter, O.; Visconti, P.; Wang, S.; Watson, J. E. M. (2020). "Anthropogenic modification of forests means only 40% of remaining forests have high ecosystem integrity - Supplementary Material". Nature Communications. 11 (1): 5978. doi:10.1038/s41467-020-19493-3. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 7723057. PMID 33293507.
  3. ^ "Angola with 60 million hectares of forests". Agencia Angola Press. 14 February 2017. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g "Angola Deforestation Rates & Statistics". Global Forest Watch.
  5. ^ Hansen, Matthew C.; Potapov, Peter V.; Moore, Rebecca; et al. (2013). "High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change". Science. 342 (6160): 850–853. doi:10.1126/science.1244693.
  6. ^ "Tree cover loss". Global Forest Watch Open Data Portal.
  7. ^ "Tree cover (2000)". Global Forest Watch Open Data Portal.
  8. ^ a b "How much forest was lost in 2023?". Global Forest Review.
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