Niger's economy is concentrated around subsistence and some export agriculture clustered in the more fertile south, and the export of raw materials, especially uranium ore. Niger commited to restore 3.2 million hectares as a contribution to the Bonn Challenge.

Around 25% of the Costa Rica's land area is in protected national parks and protected areas, the largest percentage of protected areas in the world. 

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.