Côte d’Ivoire

Cote d’Ivoire has a coastline along the North Atlantic Ocean, extending to rolling plains and mountains in the country’s northwest. Most of the country is used for human activities, in its majority by rainfed agriculture. Côte d’Ivoire has high biodiversity rarity of terrestrial land vertebrates at a global scale. When analysed as single taxons, the rarity of amphibians, birds, mammals and reptiles is also high. The rarity of marine fish and mammals is also high. Challenges to biodiversity include deforestation; water pollution from sewage and industrial, mining, and agricultural effluents.