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. 

Forests in the Republic of the Congo are under increasing exploitation pressure, although petroleum extraction has supplanted forestry as the mainstay of the economy. 

Colombia has the largest number of mondasendemic species (species that are not found naturally anywhere else) worldwide. About 10% of the species in the world live in Colombia.