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LUMBERING IN EQUATORIAL AFRICA (ZAIRE AND NIGERIA)

ClassNotes Team 4 MIN READUPDATED 7 JUL 2026

GEOGRAPHY SSS2 THIRD TERM

WEEK – SEVEN

LUMBERING IN EQUATORIAL AFRICA (ZAIRE AND NIGERIA)

REFERENCE

Essential Geography for Senior Secondary Schools by O.A. Iwena

LUMBERING IN EQUATORIAL AFRICA (ZAIRE AND NIGERIA)

Lumbering is defined as the felling of economic trees in the forest for domestic, industrial or commercial purposes.

Lumbering is practiced in Equatorial Africa regions like Zaire (around kinshesa, Ituri etc) and in Nigeria (around Benin City, Sapele, Port-Harcourt etc).

Favourable Factors For Lumbering in Zaire and Nigeria are:

  1. The presence of dense tropical rainforest.
  2. Presence of economic trees.
  3. Presence of wide market for the produscts.
  4. High demand for hardwood in foreign countries.
  5. High demand for timber as fuel.
  6. Efficient sawmill industries to process the raw timber.
  7. Efficient transport…