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In biogeography, Upper Guinea refers the region of tropical rainforest extending from southwestern Guinea through Sierra Leone, Liberia, southeastern Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, and southwestern Ghana.
The Upper Guinean forests is a tropical seasonal forest region of West Africa. The Upper Guinean forests extend from Guinea and Sierra Leone in the west through Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana to Togo in the east, and a few hundred kilometers inland from the Atlantic coast.
16 de mai. de 2023 · Overview. Science. The Upper Guinean forest of West Africa, identified over 20 years ago as a “global biodiversity hotspot” due to its exceptional concentrations of endemic species and exceptional loss of habitats, encompasses all of the lowland forests of West Africa (Mittermeier and others, 1999; Myers and others, 2000).
- We Are Making Conservation Progress in The Region
- Rainforest Trust Is Committed to Saving This Landscape from Threats
- Help Us Save Over 1 Million Acres For Species, Communities and The Planet
Recently, working with our local partner, the Society for the Conservation of Nature of Liberia (SCNL) and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), Rainforest Trust helped protect almost 80,000 acres with the creation of the Normon Community Forest and the Tonglay Community Forest. The local communities in the area are among the most v...
The success of this protection is part of Rainforest Trust’s long-term strategy to safeguard this imperiled ecosystem that stores millions of tons of carbon and houses exceedingly rare biodiversity. Chimpanzees and colobus monkeys, Pygmy Hippopotamus (EN), White-bellied Pangolin (EN), Giant Ground Pangolin (EN) and Black-bellied Pangolin (VU) all b...
Rainforest Trust has been committed to protecting this landscape since 2016 when we established the Gola Forest National Park in partnership with SCNL. Work is ongoing in three projects with SCNL and Fauna & Flora International that will result in 1,316,203 acres protected in total, safeguarding species and protecting our planet. The benefits of th...
Upper Guinea is composed of the Niger Plains, which slope northeastward toward the Sahara. The flat relief is broken by rounded granite hills and outliers of the Fouta Djallon. Composed of granite, gneiss, schist (crystalline rock), and quartzite, the region has an average elevation of….
Há 4 dias · Upper Guinea is composed of the Niger Plains, which slope northeastward toward the Sahara. The flat relief is broken by rounded granite hills and outliers of the Fouta Djallon. Composed of granite, gneiss, schist (crystalline rock), and quartzite, the region has an average elevation of about 1,000 feet (300 metres).
With the advent of European traders to the Guinea coasts in the fifteenth century, a considerable corpus of documentation in European languages did begin to build up. But centuries were to pass before Europeans began to penetrate significantly into the interior.
