Ghana forest
Shai Hills Resource Reserve
Nipah Dennis · CC BY-SA 4.0
36% trees around it and 506 species recorded.
- trees within 3 km36%
- wild within 10 km96%
- species recorded506
- Altitude205 m
The forest around
36% 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, ring by ring
- 0–1 km95%
- 1–3 km28%
- 3–6 km5%
- 6–10 km7%
What covers the land (1–3 km)
- Trees28%
- Shrubland7%
- Grassland64%
- 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
506 species recorded.
The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.
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Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.
In numbers
The forest, measured.
Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).
- 36%Treesof the land within 3 km
- 96%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
- 506Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
- 205 mAltitudeabove the sea
When to walk
Best for walking from July to August.
How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.
- Jan22°18 mm
- Feb24°38 mm
- Mar24°93 mm
- Apr24°115 mm
- May24°159 mm
- Jun23°182 mm
- Jul22°118 mm
- Aug21°68 mm
- Sep22°141 mm
- Oct23°158 mm
- Nov23°56 mm
- Dec23°18 mm
- Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
- Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Shai Hills Resource Reserve.
Protected area in Ghana
Shai Hills Resource Reserve is a forest in Ghana, 205 m above the sea.
Seen from space, 36% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 96% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.
506 species have been recorded around it: 112 plants, 0 fungi, 388 birds and 6 mammals.
The most recorded plants are: Eriosema molle, Indigofera subulata and Lonchocarpus sericeus.
The best time to walk is from July to August.
Get there and walk
- Shai Hills Resort Hotelplace to stay · 3.1 km · 1 within 10 km
- Akropongnearest town · 18 km in a straight line
- Kotoka International Airport (ACC)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 42 km in a straight lineCar hire at ACC airport (Accra)Discover Cars · sponsored link↗
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.
Around, in OpenStreetMap
- 1picnic sites within 4 km
- 1viewpoints within 5 km
- 1visitor centres within 6 km
- 1car parks within 3 km
- 1places to stay within 10 kmShai Hills Resort Hotel
- marked trails within 5 km
- named and notable trees within 6 km
- shelters and huts within 6 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 Shai Hills Resource Reserve.
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.
Peakyas25 mountains within 25 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.
Other forests nearby.
Shai Hills Resource Reserve
Ghana
- 62Forestyas Score
- 36%Trees
- 96%Wild
- 506Species
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1440461) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Land cover | ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0 |
| Species | 39,487 open records within 5 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only) |
| See these records | gbif.org |
| Names and photos | Wikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Altitude | Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Temperature and rain | NASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2) |
| What is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Sister atlases | Peakyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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