FAO Forestry country profiles - harvesting practicies

Harvesting practicies

The war hasn´t been the only factor affecting log production. Already before the war there were many obstacles like the lack of professional know-how, waste of wood due to bad felling and unawareness of classification of logs. Forest exploitation is based on the issuance of concessions for a defined period of time. Most of the concession holders are private companies, the majority of which operate under installed capacity (FAO 1987, IDF 1994).

Nowadays forestry activity in Angola is practically paralyzed. In the mid-1990s some bigger forestry enterprises tried to continue with logging activities, but the war made it impossible. At the moment, there are no statistics available concerning log production in the country (IDF 1994).