Mangroves of Western and Central Africa

accessed Acrostichum aureum African mangrove cover Ajonina Angola Annual population growth area estimates Source ASSOCIATED WITH MANGROVES Available Avicennia germinans Avicennia germinans Conocarpus Benin BIODIVERSITY Cameroon cent CHANGE Key drivers coastal zone Coastline km Congo Conocarpus erectus Conservation Côte d'Ivoire density per km² drivers of change ECONOMIC ACTIVITY ASSOCIATED Equatorial Guinea estuary exploitation falling within protected fish fisheries Gabon Gambia germinans Conocarpus erectus Ghana Guinea Bissau impacts lagoons Laguncularia racemosa Land area km² Liberia Macintosh and Ashton mangrove area estimates Mangrove area falling mangrove area km² mangrove ecosystems mangrove forests mangrove species marine Niger Delta Nigeria Number of mangrove Nypa fruticans Ohimain pollution Population 000 Population density population growth rate protected areas Ramsar site region Rhizophora mangle Rhizophora racemosa River Senegal Sierra Leone Source Year 1980 species in country square kilometres STATUS Table Table of mangrove THREATS AND DRIVERS Togo Total mangrove area UNEP UNEP-WCMC West Africa Wetlands