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Dynamics of Forest Resource<br />
Forest area declined during the 1990s at an estimated<br />
annual rate of 2.6% (or 398,000 hectares per year) (FAO<br />
2005), due to agricultural expansion, encroachment, over -<br />
harvesting, bush burning, ille gal harvesting and dereservations<br />
The Federal Department of Forestry in 2001 estimated the<br />
the annual depletion rate to b e about 3.5%.<br />
Nigeria’s forest estate is hig hly depleted + Desert<br />
encroachment southward at >1 k m /year rate
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