Forest Inventory

Over 250,000 study plots created worldwide,
representing 20 million trees measured

National forest inventory


Forest Inventory of Southwest Forest
Central African Republic

  • Annual participation in Quebec’s 10-year forest inventory since 1967 (1,500 sample plots per year)
  • Reconnaissance inventory covering over 6 million hectares in Cameroon and 3.5 million hectares in Central African Republic
  • Biomass inventory of 25 million hectares in Ethiopia and 1 million hectares in Quebec
  • Publication of dendrology manuals on the forests of Cameroon, Ethiopia, Honduras, Central African Republic and Zaire

Preinvestment inventory

  • Inventory of over 5 million hectares in the Zaire river basin and 3.5 million hectares in Sudan’s Bar-El-Gazal and Blue Nileau provinces
  • Over 5 inventory projects in southern Cameroon totaling 350,000 hectares and one project in Trinidad and Tobago covering 300,000 hectares

Management-volume inventory

  • Multi-resource inventory of 150,000 hectares in the urban periphery of Bangui
  • Management-volume inventory of three forests in Cameroon (300,000 hectares), the Bokué Forest in Gabon (150,000 hectares) and the Duékoué Forest in Ivory Coast (120,000 hectares)
  • Socioecological inventory of the Saint-Louis-Dakar coastal margin in Senegal (100,000 hectares) and the Duékoué Forest buffer zone in the Ivory Coast (30,000 hectares)
  • Regeneration inventory (17,000 sample plots) for a private firm in Quebec to assess the impact of cutting methods on forest renewal

Operational and valuation inventory

  • Valuation inventory of some 5,000 woodlots in Quebec
  • Logging inventory of over 12,000 hectares in the Deng-Deng and Soo-Lala forests in Cameroon
  • Forest inventory of 5,000 hectares of the Duékoué Forest in the Ivory Coast
  • Inventory of over 10,000 hectares of industrial plantations in Gabon and 3,500 hectares in Sudan