anthropogenic and their harmful effects and more particularly land clearing, fires and overgrazing. Currently, forests and rangelands in Tunisia cover an area estimated at 5.5 million ha, or one third of the territory. The forest area is 1.2 million ha including 1 million ha of forests proper and about 170,000 ha of maquis and scrubland, this forest area represented at independence only barely 400,000 hectares, where the effort made in this field over the last fifty years. Three-quarters of the forests are located in the northwest and center-west of the country. According to FAO data in its 2009 edition, forest areas listed in Tunisia cover about 7% of the total area of the country, just behind Morocco, 9% and well ahead of other Maghreb countries. However, this rate remains well below that of the countries on the northern shore of the Mediterranean.