West Sudanian savanna

West Sudanian savanna
West Sudanian savanna
	Sudanian savanna with bunchgrass tufts of Andropogon gayanus, Pama Reserve, Burkina Faso
	Map of the West Sudanian savanna ecoregion
Ecology
Realm	Afrotropical
Biome	tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands
Borders	List East Sudanian savanna; Eastern Guinean forests; Guinean forest-savanna mosaic; Inner Niger Delta flooded savanna; Jos Plateau forest-grassland mosaic; Lake Chad flooded savanna; Mandara Plateau mosaic; Sahelian Acacia savanna;
Geography
Area	1,632,821 km2 (630,436 sq mi)
Countries	List Benin; Burkina Faso; Gambia; Ghana; Guinea; Ivory Coast; Mali; Niger; Nigeria; Senegal; Togo;
Conservation
Conservation status	Critical/endangered
Protected	233,942 km2 (14%)

The West Sudanian savanna is a tropical savanna ecoregion that extends across West Africa.

^ Eric Dinerstein, David Olson, et al. (2017). An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm, BioScience, Volume 67, Issue 6, June 2017, Pages 534–545; Supplemental material 2 table S1b. [1]