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Lost Tree

Yahiaoui Bellahouel · CC BY-SA 4.0

0% of the land around it is trees.

  • trees within 3 km0%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • Altitude445 m

The forest around

0% 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.

0%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km0%
  • 1–3 km0%
  • 3–6 km0%
  • 6–10 km0%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Bare ground100%

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

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).

  • 0%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 445 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from December to January.

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

  1. Jan23°7°0 mm
  2. Feb27°10°0 mm
  3. Mar32°14°0 mm
  4. Apr38°20°0 mm
  5. May41°24°2 mm
  6. Jun43°26°1 mm
  7. Jul42°26°1 mm
  8. Aug41°27°4 mm
  9. Sep40°25°1 mm
  10. Oct36°20°0 mm
  11. Nov30°14°0 mm
  12. Dec24°9°0 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Lost Tree.

Remote tree located in Northeast Niger

Lost Tree is a notable tree in Niger, 445 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 0% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

The best time to walk is from December to January.

Arbre du Ténéré
Yahiaoui Bellahouel · CC BY-SA 4.0

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.

Lost Tree 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 kmArbre Perdu
  • 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
  • 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.

Other forests nearby.

Lost Tree

Niger

  • 20Forestyas Score
  • 0%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • —Species

Tree of Ténéré

Niger · 345 km

  • 20Forestyas Score
  • 0%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • —Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q27997128) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
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

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

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