Burkina Faso has a larger number of elephants than many countries in West Africa. Lions, leopards and buffalo can also be found there, including the dwarf or red buffalo, a smaller reddish-brown animal which looks like a fierce kind of short-legged cow.

Over 40% of Belarus' 207,600 square kilometres (80,200 sq mi) is forested. About a fifth of Belarusian land (principally farmland and forests in the southeastern regions) was affected by radiation fallout from Ukraine's 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

Forests make up 32.7% of the land area of Cote d'Ivoire, and the country is the world's largest exporter of cocoa beans. Cote d'Ivoire has committed to restore 5 million hectares of its land by 2030 through the Bonn Challenge.