The Status of Forest Development in Ethiopia: Challenges and Opportunities: A Review Paper

Abstract: Ethiopia is endowed with a variety of ecosystem diversity with the chain of highlands, midlands and lowlands as well as more than 13 major vegetation types. This review based on identifying the existing opportunity and the major challenges of forest as well as suggests future directions for better forestry development and conservation practice Ethiopia.  Forestry directly contributes to the national economy through employment generation, potential foreign currency earnings through export, energy, food, industry, and tourism. Moreover,  it  provide  wide ecological values mainly as a major carbon sink regulating climate change, control erosion, maintain soil fertility, and reduce risk of natural disasters like flood and land slide. Even though, the forest provide varies ecological and economic value the deforestation, overgrazing, agricultural expansion and forest fire are becoming the main challenges threaten forest status in Ethiopia.  These challenges in turn results in other serious ecological consequences like loss of biodiversity, soil erosion, loss of soil fertility, food insecurity and poverty. However, to overcome these challenges, and improve the forest cover in Ethiopia, there are several potential opportunities including the Existence of forest policy, the signed a number of international agreement.  Ethiopia Launches Climate Resilient Green Economy (Green legacy), Agro forestry and home garden practices, Priority High Forests and National Parks, religious and other Sacred Site and the expansion of different protected area. Therefore, efforts should be made to address the existing challenges and apply those potentials opportunities entirely so as to develop and conserve the forest resources sustainably in Ethiopia.

Keywords:  Biodiversity, Conservation, Deforestation, protected area.     

Title: The Status of Forest Development in Ethiopia: Challenges and Opportunities: A Review Paper

Author: Abdulkadir Mohammed, Saudi Bahmud, Abas Abdulahi

International Journal of Novel Research in Interdisciplinary Studies

ISSN 2394-9716

Vol. 10, Issue 6, November 2023 - December 2023

Page No: 7-19

Novelty Journals

Website: www.noveltyjournals.com

Published Date: 20-December-2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10409611

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