- method of extraction:
In most tropical areas, valued species and of trees are dispersed hence inhibit the use of machinery. And also the volume of logs to be handled is small limiting the involvement of large and modern machines area.
- Tropical hardwood:
They are valuable and have a large demand especially for construction; on the other hand they are not used in paper and pulp. There is a high competition between tropical hardwood and the temperate hardwood. The temperate hard wood grows in size and more accessible and easy to extract.
- Occurrence of species:
Tropical hardwood occurs in many varying species over a relative small area. This makes location and extraction of valuable species more difficult and expensive.
- The jungle environment:
The exploitation of the tropical forest is affected by the prevalence of tropical disease like Malaria, presence of killing animals like elephant and lion, harsh climate condition that discourages exploitation.
- Access to market:
This has always being a problem to the tropical areas as most of the consuming countries and Europe and America. Thus transportation is too high coupled while the high cost of extraction of timber from the forest.
- Transportation:
Transportation has an important roll as far as for exploitation of tropical function is concerned. This seriously affects exploitation. Logs are very heavy, tropical road areas are under developed, most of the large forests are found in under populated and remote areas of amazons and Congo basin.
