Liberia possesses about forty percent of the remaining Upper Guinean rainforest, and is a global biodiversity hotspot – hosting the last remaining viable populations of certain species including western chimpanzees, forest elephants and leopards.

The Kenyan Highlands comprise one of the most successful agricultural production regions in Africa, but overexploitation over the past three decades has reduced the country's timber resources by one-half. 

Grasslands mixed with south coastal shrublands and forests dominate Ghana, with forest extending northward from the south-west coast of Ghana. Ghana has committed to restoring 2 million hectares of forest land, through a pledge to the Bonn Challenge.