Forest and wildlife resources in the Amhara region potentials and constraints
2003
Teshome Tesema (ARBA, Bahir Dar (Ethiopia))
The Amhara region have been endowed with various natural resources such as forests and wildlife. But, the ever growing population demand more land for cultivation and hence forests are subjected to encroachments and poaching. As a result forest coverage is shrieked to patches and disappearing from the landscape paying a way to land degradation, environmental deterioration, and created a wide gap between wood supply and demand. Although a remarkable effort to revert the prevailing condition is on the way, it needs to be supported by strong forestry policy and research backstopping. State and commercial investments in the area of forestry and wildlife should be encouraged. We cannot even think about agricultural production and economic growth unless and otherwise we conserve and develop out natural resource base such as forests and wildlife.
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