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Classified Forest of Madarounfa

Ibrahim Adamou Mahamane Sani · CC BY-SA 4.0

14% trees around it and 24 species recorded.

20Forestyas Score

Forest

  • trees within 3 km14%
  • wild within 10 km12%
  • species recorded24
  • Altitude360 m

The forest around

14% 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 53%Shrubland 27%Grassland 3%Bare ground 6%Cropland 11%Built-up 0%Trees 9%Shrubland 14%Grassland 4%Wetland 1%Bare ground 2%Cropland 67%Built-up 2%Trees 3%Shrubland 3%Grassland 2%Wetland 0%Water 3%Bare ground 2%Cropland 84%Built-up 3%Trees 1%Shrubland 2%Grassland 4%Bare ground 2%Cropland 90%Built-up 2%14%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km53%
  • 1–3 km9%
  • 3–6 km3%
  • 6–10 km1%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees9%
  • Shrubland14%
  • Grassland4%
  • Wetland1%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground2%
  • Cropland67%
  • Built-up2%

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

24 species recorded.

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

Sorghum
SorghumSorghum bicolor2 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Pethan assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 3.0
Watermelon
WatermelonCitrullus lanatus2 recordsKumon · CC BY 2.0
Tropical Girdlepod
Tropical GirdlepodMitracarpus hirtus2 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Chamaecrista
ChamaecristaChamaecrista mimosoides2 recordsJ.M.Garg · CC BY-SA 4.0
Sicklepod
SicklepodSenna obtusifolia2 recordsJeevan Jose, Kerala, India · CC BY-SA 4.0
Combretum glutinosum
Combretum glutinosumCombretum glutinosum2 recordsMarco Schmidt · CC BY-SA 3.0
Indian sandbur
Indian sandburCenchrus biflorus2 recordsEcureuil · CC BY-SA 3.0
Ilima
IlimaSida cordifolia2 recordsJ.M.Garg · CC BY-SA 4.0
Spermacoce radiataSpermacoce radiata2 records
Wild cassiaSenna singueana2 records
Eragrostis tremulaEragrostis tremula2 records
Urochloa xantholeucaUrochloa xantholeuca2 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

20out of 100

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

  • 14%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 12%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 24Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 360 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from January to April and in November.

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

  1. Jan30°13°0 mm
  2. Feb34°17°0 mm
  3. Mar38°21°1 mm
  4. Apr40°25°5 mm
  5. May40°27°24 mm
  6. Jun37°26°73 mm
  7. Jul34°24°144 mm
  8. Aug31°23°199 mm
  9. Sep32°22°91 mm
  10. Oct35°21°15 mm
  11. Nov34°17°1 mm
  12. Dec31°14°0 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Classified Forest of Madarounfa.

Protected forest in Niger

Classified Forest of Madarounfa is a forest in Niger, 360 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 14% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 12% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

24 species have been recorded around it: 14 plants, 0 fungi, 10 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Sorghum, Watermelon and Tropical Girdlepod.

The best time to walk is from January to April and in November.

Espèces végétales
Ibrahim Adamou Mahamane Sani · 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.

Classified Forest of Madarounfa 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

    • 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
    • campsites within 10 km
    • places to stay 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 Classified Forest of Madarounfa.

    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.

    Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
    Lake Madarounfa2.4 km² · 3.8 kmMare de Kourfin Koura0.3 km² · 12 km
    Riveryasthe river nearby
    River Goulbi de Maradi

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

    Photographs

    The forest, as people saw it.

    Foret classé de dajin gomna Madarounfa
    A.kader Maman ibrahim · CC BY-SA 4.0
    Le goulbi traversant la forêt classée de Madarounfa
    Ibrahim Adamou Mahamane Sani · CC BY-SA 4.0
    Forêt Dajin Gamna
    AMINOU OUSMANE · CC BY-SA 4.0

    Where these figures come from

    Name and typeWikidata (Q117356365) · CC0
    Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
    Species136 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, Riveryas

    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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