Equatorial Africa - geography.

Equatorial Africa - geography. Tropical Forests of Africa Dense tropical forests once covered nearly all of the Congo Basin and coastal West Africa (see Tropical Wet Forests Map Trek). Only scattered pockets of the forest, shaded dark green on the map, remain. This is because the poor countries of the region are cutting the forest for export faster than it can grow back. The cleared land is used to grow crops such as manioc, ...