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Bobiri

Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0

17% trees around it and 4 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km17%
  • wild within 10 km73%
  • species recorded4
  • Altitude224 m

The forest around

17% trees.

Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.

Trees 22%Grassland 31%Cropland 47%Built-up 1%Trees 17%Grassland 33%Cropland 50%Trees 30%Grassland 33%Wetland 0%Water 1%Cropland 34%Built-up 2%Trees 43%Grassland 36%Water 0%Bare ground 0%Cropland 20%Built-up 1%17%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km22%
  • 1–3 km17%
  • 3–6 km30%
  • 6–10 km43%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees17%
  • Grassland33%
  • Water0%
  • Cropland50%
  • Built-up0%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

Who lives here

4 species recorded.

The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

Ground-ivy
Ground-ivyGlechoma hederacea3 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0

Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

24out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 17%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 73%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 4Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 224 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from May to June and in September.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan-6°-12°54 mm
  2. Feb-4°-11°47 mm
  3. Mar1°-6°51 mm
  4. Apr10°0°54 mm
  5. May18°7°90 mm
  6. Jun21°11°93 mm
  7. Jul23°14°93 mm
  8. Aug22°12°90 mm
  9. Sep16°7°55 mm
  10. Oct8°2°74 mm
  11. Nov1°-3°63 mm
  12. Dec-4°-9°54 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Bobiri.

Protected area in Ghana

Bobiri is a forest in Ghana, 224 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 17% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 73% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

4 species have been recorded around it: 1 plants, 0 fungi, 3 birds and 0 mammals.

The best time to walk is from May to June and in September.

Medium green-banded green swallowtail (Papilio sosia) male underside Bobiri
Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

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From above

The forest and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.

Bobiri seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 1campsites within 10 kmГолубое озеро
  • 3places to stay within 10 kmНагать, Привал, Седьмое небо
  • 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • shelters and huts within 6 km
  • viewpoints within 5 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km
  • car parks within 3 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

In our other atlases

Around Bobiri.

The mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and canyons around this forest, the viewpoints above it, the birds and the night sky, in the family's atlases.

Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Maslovy Gory1.2 km² · 4.4 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Western emperor swallowtail (Papilio menestheus) male Bobiri
Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0
Bobiri - 001
Mikra72 · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Bobiri

Ghana

  • 24Forestyas Score
  • 17%Trees
  • 73%Wild
  • 4Species

Halubickaja pušča

Belarus · 263 km

  • 48Forestyas Score
  • 64%Trees
  • 94%Wild
  • —Species

See the guide

Naliboki forest

Belarus · 378 km

  • 76Forestyas Score
  • 90%Trees
  • 95%Wild
  • 56Species

See the guide

Kurapaty

Belarus · 302 km

  • 44Forestyas Score
  • 42%Trees
  • 51%Wild
  • 311Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q4088934) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species49 open records within 5 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only)
See these recordsgbif.org
Names and photosWikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesLakeyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

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