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Bahrain Bahrain notable tree

Tree of Life

കാക്കര · CC BY-SA 3.0

0% trees around it and 21 species recorded.

30Forestyas Score

Notable tree

  • trees within 3 km0%
  • wild within 10 km93%
  • species recorded21

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.

Trees 1%Shrubland 1%Grassland 0%Bare ground 96%Cropland 0%Built-up 1%Grassland 0%Bare ground 94%Built-up 5%Shrubland 0%Water 18%Bare ground 75%Built-up 6%Trees 0%Shrubland 1%Grassland 0%Water 36%Bare ground 54%Built-up 8%0%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km1%
  • 1–3 km0%
  • 3–6 km0%
  • 6–10 km0%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees0%
  • Shrubland0%
  • Grassland0%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground94%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up5%

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

21 species recorded.

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

Crested Lark
Crested LarkGalerida cristata15 recordsZeynel Cebeci · CC BY-SA 4.0
House Sparrow
House SparrowPasser domesticus9 recordsDiliff · CC BY-SA 3.0
Eurasian Collared Dove
Eurasian Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto7 recordsxulescu_g · CC BY-SA 2.0
Laughing Dove
Laughing DoveSpilopelia senegalensis6 recordsGiles Laurent · CC BY-SA 4.0
Rock Dove
Rock DoveColumba livia4 recordswilliam_stephens · CC BY 4.0
Desert wheatear
Desert wheatearOenanthe deserti4 recordsDr. Raju Kasambe · CC BY-SA 4.0
Tawny Pipit
Tawny PipitAnthus campestris3 recordsAnthusCampestris.jpg : Lip Kee derivative work: Bogbumper ( talk ) · CC BY-SA 2.0
Isabelline Wheatear
Isabelline WheatearOenanthe isabellina3 recordsLip Kee Yap · CC BY-SA 2.0
Pied Avocet
Pied AvocetRecurvirostra avosetta2 recordsEl Golli Mohamed · CC BY-SA 4.0
Kentish Plover
Kentish PloverCharadrius alexandrinus2 recordsZeynel Cebeci · CC BY-SA 4.0
Common Greenshank
Common GreenshankTringa nebularia2 recordsCharles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0
White-eared Bulbul
White-eared BulbulPycnonotus leucotis2 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Nature Loader assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 3.0

Open records within 2 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

30out 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
  • 93%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 21Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km

When to walk

Best for walking from January to February.

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

  1. Jan20°16°7 mm
  2. Feb20°16°5 mm
  3. Mar24°19°3 mm
  4. Apr28°23°4 mm
  5. May33°27°0 mm
  6. Jun36°30°0 mm
  7. Jul37°32°0 mm
  8. Aug38°32°1 mm
  9. Sep36°31°0 mm
  10. Oct33°28°1 mm
  11. Nov27°24°10 mm
  12. Dec22°19°8 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Tree of Life.

Tree in Bahrain

Tree of Life is a notable tree in Bahrain.

Seen from space, 0% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 93% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

21 species have been recorded around it: 0 plants, 0 fungi, 21 birds and 0 mammals.

The best time to walk is from January to February.

Tree of Life, Bahrain - ജീവന്റെ മരം, ബഹ്റൈൻ 01
കാക്കര · 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.

Tree of Life 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 kmشجرة الحياة
  • 1car parks within 3 km
  • 1campsites within 10 kmمخيم ياسر
  • 3places to stay within 10 kmAl Areen Palace, سوفيتيل
  • 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
  • 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 Tree of Life.

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.

Peakyas1 mountains within 25 km
Mountain of Smoke134 m · 6.4 km
Islandyasthe island
Bahrain Island673 km²
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
SakhirBortle 9 · 7.9 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Mountain of Smoke134 m · 6.4 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 km
Tubli Bay177 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.

Bahrain Tree of Life 20
Zairon · CC BY-SA 4.0
Tree of Life in Bahrain
CIA World Factbook · Public domain
Bahrain Tree of Life 01
Zairon · CC BY-SA 4.0

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1542275) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species104 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 atlasesPeakyas, Islandyas, Darkskyas, Viewyas, Birdyas

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

The family

Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers, canyons, caves, dark skies, viewpoints, birdwatching or forests?

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

beachesCoastyaFind your beach: sea temperature, sun and swimming month by month.Visit lakesLakeyasEvery lake on Earth: water temperature, ice, depth and the shore.Visit mountainsPeakyasEvery summit in 3D: summit weather, the 0 °C line, huts and trails.Visit waterfallsCascadyasEvery waterfall: height, flow month by month and when it roars.Visit islandsIslandyasEvery island from the sea up: size, sea temperature, ferries and 3D.Visit riversRiveryasEvery river from source to sea: the journey, the flow and the basin in numbers.Visit canyonsCanyonyasEvery canyon cut to scale: depth to the floor, rim and floor temperatures, trails and viewpoints.Visit cavesCavernyasEvery cave with its real depth and length: the rock above, the temperature inside all year, and how to visit.Visit dark skiesDarkskyasWhere the night is still dark: the sky of every place, the Milky Way month by month, the Moon, eclipses and auroras.Visit
viewpointsViewyasEvery viewpoint with its real 360° panorama: the peaks you can name, how far you see and where the sun sets.Coming soonVisit
birdwatchingBirdyasEvery bird sanctuary and wetland with the species recorded month by month: who is resident, who comes for the summer, who only passes through.Visit
forestsForestyasEvery forest with its land-cover rings, what grows and lives in it, and the best months to walk it.You are here