Thus due to population growth, lack of alternative livelihood approach, ruthless profit making, lack of economic transformation human encroachment and lack of alternative sources of energy. The study was found out that population dynamics had contributed a lot to deforestation of the wereda under the study through agricultural land expansion, settlement, fuel wood gathering and illegal tree cutting. This study is triangulation study in its design. As the result in this study a mixed method was used. The quantitative data of this study were analyzed using descriptive statistics and the qualitative data were discussed and interpreted through narration. Questionnaire, interview, FGD and satellite imagery used as data gathering tools for this study. Systematic random sampling technique was used to select the target population of this study whose total number was 364 households from four kebeles of DLW. The general objective of this study was to assess the effect of population dynamics on forest cover in West Hararghe Zone in general and Daro Labu Wereda (DLW) in particular. The quality of the environment is constantly losing its status due to increase in population size in most countries of the world.

Population Dynamics, Deforestation, Forest Degradation Abstractįorest is one of renewable land properties which endowed with numerous resources that are valuable to man.

Oromia Agricultural Research Institute, Mechara Agricultural Research Center, P.O.Box 19, Mechara, Ethiopia

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