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Gambia Gambia arboretum

The Botanic Garden

Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 3.0

7% trees around it and 261 species recorded.

43Forestyas Score

ArboretumMangroveBirds

  • trees within 3 km7%
  • wild within 10 km82%
  • species recorded261

The forest around

7% 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 15%Shrubland 3%Grassland 7%Wetland 1%Water 20%Bare ground 1%Cropland 3%Built-up 50%Trees 6%Mangroves 4%Shrubland 1%Grassland 2%Wetland 2%Water 56%Bare ground 2%Cropland 0%Built-up 26%Trees 2%Mangroves 12%Shrubland 1%Grassland 1%Wetland 1%Water 62%Bare ground 1%Cropland 0%Built-up 20%Trees 3%Mangroves 12%Shrubland 0%Grassland 1%Wetland 1%Water 67%Bare ground 0%Cropland 1%Built-up 15%7%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km15%
  • 1–3 km6%
  • 3–6 km2%
  • 6–10 km3%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees6%
  • Mangroves4%
  • Shrubland1%
  • Grassland2%
  • Wetland2%
  • Water56%
  • Bare ground2%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up26%

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

261 species recorded.

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

African weeping-wattle
African weeping-wattlePeltophorum africanum2 recordsB. Attard · CC BY-SA 3.0
Kapok
KapokCeiba pentandra2 recordsBurkhard Mücke · CC BY-SA 4.0
Amorphophallus consimilisAmorphophallus consimilis3 records
NT
River redgumEucalyptus camaldulensis2 records

Open records within 2 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).

  • 7%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 82%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 261Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km

When to walk

Best for walking from January to February and from April to May.

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

  1. Jan27°19°2 mm
  2. Feb27°18°2 mm
  3. Mar27°18°16 mm
  4. Apr26°19°4 mm
  5. May27°21°2 mm
  6. Jun28°25°45 mm
  7. Jul28°26°169 mm
  8. Aug28°26°290 mm
  9. Sep28°26°224 mm
  10. Oct30°27°67 mm
  11. Nov30°24°6 mm
  12. Dec28°21°2 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

The Botanic Garden.

Architectural structure and botanic garden in Bakau, Gambia

The Botanic Garden is an arboretum in Gambia.

Seen from space, 7% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 82% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

261 species have been recorded around it: 4 plants, 0 fungi, 257 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: African weeping-wattle, Kapok and Amorphophallus consimilis.

The best time to walk is from January to February and from April to May.

Edificio principal, Jardín Botánico, Múnich, Alemania 2012-04-21, DD 04
Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

The Botanic Garden 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

  • 2named and notable trees within 6 kmSilk cotton tree
  • 2shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 19car parks within 3 km
  • 2campsites within 10 kmCamping Sukuta, Alkali Jallow Kunda
  • 126places to stay within 10 kmRomana Hotel, African Village Hotel, Ngala Lodge and 123 more
  • 37restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • viewpoints within 5 km
  • visitor centres within 6 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 The Botanic Garden.

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
Kololi Beach6.3 km
Birdyas3 birding sites within 25 km
Tanbi Wetland Complex367 species · 9.4 kmTanji Bird Reserve346 species · 18 kmNiumi National Park100 species · 21 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.

131103 Hokkaido University Botanical Gardens Sapporo Hokkaido Japan12s5
663highland · CC BY 2.5
A shot in the University of California Botanic Garden, from the roof top of the garden
Meiko21 ( talk ) · CC BY-SA 4.0
Fisherman, Gambia. © Ali McCarley 2016 (24078926313)
Ali McCarley from Brighton, UK · CC BY 2.0

Other forests nearby.

The Botanic Garden

Gambia

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

Réserve de Fathala

Senegal · 30 km

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

See the guide

Samba Dia Biosphere Reserve

Senegal · 71 km

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

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q894638) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species6,085 open records within 2 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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