Commonwealth Forests

bullet1 ANNEX 2 THE FOREST RESOURCE

bullet2 ANNEX 2.8 National importance of forest ecological zones

National proportion
Major forest types
Highest
Second
Third
Tropical rain forest
Bangladesh (63%);
Brueni Darussalem (100%); Fiji (100%);
Cameroon (81%);
Dominica (79%);
Ghana (47%);
Grenada (71%);
Guyana (74%);
Jamaica (84%);
Kiribati (100%);
Malaysia (94%);
Maldives (100%);
Nauru (100%);
PNG (80%);
Samoa(100%);
Singapore (100%);
Solomons (100%);
St Vincent & the Grenadines (56%);
St. Kitts&Nevis (54%);
St.Lucia (61%);
Tonga (100%);
Trinidad&Tobago (100%);
Vanuatu (100%)
Bahamas (29%);
Belice (42%);
India (13%);
Sierra Leone (40%);
Antigua&Barbuda (22%);
Mozambique (1%);
Nigeria (22%);
Tropical moist deciduous
Antigua&Barbuda (43%);
Bahamas (54%);
Belize (58%);
Malawi (48%);
Mauritius (100%);
Seychelles (100%);
Sierra Leone (60%);
Uganda (78%);
Bangladesh (37%);
Cameroon (16%);
Gambia (24%);
Ghana (32%);
Grenada (25%);
Guyana (23%)
Jamaica (16%);
Kenya (18%);
Mozambique (18%);
Nigeria (36%);
Sri Lanka (20%);
St Kitts&Nevis (45%);
St Lucia (37%);
St.Vincent & the Grenadines (43%)
Tanzania (18%);
Zambia (49%);
India (11%);
South Africa (1%);
Sri Lanka (18%);
Uganda (5%);
Tropical dry
Australia (39%);
Barbados (100%);
Botswana (73%);
Gambia (76%);
India (56%);  
Mozambique (81%);
Namibia (53%);
Nigeria (38%);
South Africa (61%);
Sri Lanka (62%);
Swaziland (86%);
Tanzania (65%);
Zambia (51%);
Antigua&Barbuda (34%);
Dominica (21%);
Malawi (37%);
Uganda (16%);
Cameroon (2%);
Ghana (21%);
Grenada (4%);
Guyana (4%);
Kenya (1%);
PNG (5%);
St Kitts&Nevis (2%);
St Lucia (2%);
St Vincent & the Grenadines (1%);
Tropical montane
Kenya (53%);
Malaysia (6%);
Namibia (3%);
PNG (11%);
South Africa (2%);
Bahamas (17%);
Malawi (15%);
Tanzania (3%);
Sub-tropical humid
New Zealand (51%);
  
Australia (5%);
 
Sub-tropical dry
  

 
Australia (6%);
Cyprus (100%);
Malta (100%)
  

 

Sub-tropical montane
Lesotho (100%);
Pakistan (31%);
Swaziland (14%);
  
Temperate oceanic
UK (85%);
New Zealand (34%);
  
Temperate continental
    
Canada (13%);
Temperate montane
    
New Zealand (16%);
Boreal coniferous
Canada (40%);
UK (10%);
  
Boreal tundra
  
Canada (24%);
  
Boreal montane
    
UK (4%);

Source: FAO FRA2000