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Réserve de Fathala

tjabeljan · CC BY 2.0

18% trees around it and 466 species recorded.

43Forestyas Score

ForestMangroveBirds

  • trees within 3 km18%
  • wild within 10 km73%
  • species recorded466

The forest around

18% 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 29%Shrubland 59%Grassland 11%Trees 16%Mangroves 0%Shrubland 75%Grassland 8%Wetland 0%Trees 23%Mangroves 11%Shrubland 36%Grassland 8%Wetland 2%Water 2%Cropland 16%Built-up 1%Trees 8%Mangroves 20%Shrubland 15%Grassland 8%Wetland 3%Water 11%Bare ground 0%Cropland 33%Built-up 2%18%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km29%
  • 1–3 km16%
  • 3–6 km23%
  • 6–10 km8%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees16%
  • Mangroves0%
  • Shrubland75%
  • Grassland8%
  • Wetland0%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland0%
  • 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

466 species recorded.

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

Bluestem
BluestemAndropogon gayanus202 recordsJose Hernandez @ USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database · Public domain
Brown Indianhemp
Brown IndianhempHibiscus cannabinus141 recordsHerbarium of the University of Coimbra (COI) · CC BY 4.0
Indigofera dendroides
Indigofera dendroidesIndigofera dendroides121 recordsMarco Schmidt [1] · CC BY-SA 3.0
Icacina oliviformis
Icacina oliviformisIcacina oliviformis108 recordsSociété d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. · Public domain
Chamaecrista
ChamaecristaChamaecrista mimosoides107 recordsJ.M.Garg · CC BY-SA 4.0
Melon
MelonCucumis melo73 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Durban crowfoot grass
Durban crowfoot grassDactyloctenium aegyptium56 recordsAtamari · CC BY-SA 3.0
Triumfetta pentandraTriumfetta pentandra131 records
Alyce CloverAlysicarpus ovalifolius130 records
Ipomoea heterotrichaIpomoea heterotricha122 records
Aspilia busseiAspilia bussei111 records
Pandiaka angustifoliaPandiaka angustifolia108 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

43out of 100

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

  • 18%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 73%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 466Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km

When to walk

Best for walking from January to May.

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

  1. Jan32°16°1 mm
  2. Feb34°17°0 mm
  3. Mar37°18°5 mm
  4. Apr38°20°2 mm
  5. May37°21°4 mm
  6. Jun35°23°74 mm
  7. Jul31°24°187 mm
  8. Aug30°24°306 mm
  9. Sep30°24°231 mm
  10. Oct31°24°67 mm
  11. Nov32°20°3 mm
  12. Dec32°17°0 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Réserve de Fathala.

Réserve de Fathala is a forest in Senegal.

Seen from space, 18% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 73% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

466 species have been recorded around it: 247 plants, 0 fungi, 218 birds and 1 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Bluestem, Brown Indianhemp and Indigofera dendroides.

The best time to walk is from January to May.

Senegal012013ReserveDeFathala017 (11885300294)
tjabeljan · CC BY 2.0

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.

Réserve de Fathala 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

  • 1named and notable trees within 6 kmLe fromager géant
  • 8places to stay within 10 kmRéserve sauvage de Fathala, Le fromager, Missiria plage and 5 more
  • marked trails within 5 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
  • campsites within 10 km
  • restaurants and cafés 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 Réserve de Fathala.

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.

Coastya1 beaches within 10 km
Leba9.5 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 km
Niumi National Park100 species · 10 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.

Senegal012013ReserveDeFathala002 (11885064013)
tjabeljan · CC BY 2.0

Other forests nearby.

Réserve de Fathala

Senegal

  • 43Forestyas Score
  • 18%Trees
  • 73%Wild
  • 466Species

The Botanic Garden

Gambia · 30 km

  • 43Forestyas Score
  • 7%Trees
  • 82%Wild
  • 261Species

See the guide

Samba Dia Biosphere Reserve

Senegal · 58 km

  • 34Forestyas Score
  • 6%Trees
  • 75%Wild
  • 161Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q29042889) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species7,588 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 atlasesCoastya, Birdyas

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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Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

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