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Type:
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Working Paper |
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Author:
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Atyi, R.E.; Tropenbos Cameroon Programme |
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Date:
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1998 |
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Agency:
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Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia |
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Series:
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CIFOR Occasional Paper no. 14 |
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URI:
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https://hdl.handle.net/10535/4773
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Forestry |
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Region:
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Africa |
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Subject(s):
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timber
forest management
economy
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Abstract:
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"The forest cover of Cameroon consists of about 22.5 million hectares of closed forests. Of these, productive forests on drained land are estimated to cover 17.5 million hectares while the extent of very degraded and swampy forests are 4.5 and 0.5 million hectares
respectively (C t 1993). With these forest resources, Cameroon now plays a leading role in tropical timber production in Africa. Because of poor road systems, logging was not an attractive business until the mid-1980s. Only a few logging companies, mostly owned by foreigners, were operating during that period. The country received hard currency mainly from the export of oil and agricultural products such as cocoa, coffee and cotton. Timber played a less important role for the national
economy and, as a result, timber resources were preserved."
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