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Deforestation in southern Côte d’Ivoire: a high-resolution remote sensing approach

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The assessment of deforestation and the understanding of the processes involved at the local scale, need the use of high-resolution satellite images, together with field observations. The results are compared with the ones obtained with low resolution images. Vegetation and land use maps of 3 sites in the forest zone of Côte d’Ivoire (Yapo, Divo and Zagné) show various intensities of deforestation. The Zagné study reconstructs the history of forest fragmentation with an old map made with aerial photographs and three satellite images. Management of national forestry heritage is not adapted to the processes involved; more than half of the “forêts classées” can be considered as non-forest. Outside protected areas, primary and secondary forests have completely disappeared, except in land managed under traditional land ownership systems. Conservation needs to be in harmony with short and long term interests of local communities.

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L’estimation détaillée de la couverture forestière réelle et la compréhension des processus de la déforestation implique l’utilisation d’images satellites à haute résolution, accompagnées de données de terrain. Les résultats sont comparés avec ceux issus d’images à faible résolution. La réalisation de cartes de la végétation de trois sites en zone forestière de Côte d’Ivoire (Yapo, Divo et Zagné) montre des intensités de déforestation variées. Le site de Zagné traite de l’historique de la fragmentation forestière à l’aide d’une carte faite à partir d’anciennes images photographiques et trois images satellitaires. La gestion du patrimoine forestier national ne semble pas adaptée à l’ampleur des processus impliqués. En effet, plus de la moitié des forêts classées ont disparu. De plus, en dehors de ces forêts classées, on ne trouve presque plus de forêts primaires ni même de forêts secondaires, mis à part dans les zones dont l’utilisation du sol est de type traditionelle. La conservation ne peut s’envisager sans l’implication et l’intégration des communautés locales dans la gestion du patrimoine.

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Chatelain, C., Gautier, L., Spichiger, R. (1996). Deforestation in southern Côte d’Ivoire: a high-resolution remote sensing approach. In: van der Maesen, L.J.G., van der Burgt, X.M., van Medenbach de Rooy, J.M. (eds) The Biodiversity of African Plants. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0285-5_34

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