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Naliboki forest

Варвара А. · CC BY-SA 4.0

90% trees around it and 56 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km90%
  • wild within 10 km95%
  • species recorded56
  • Altitude164 m

The forest around

90% 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 99%Grassland 1%Trees 89%Grassland 9%Cropland 2%Trees 93%Grassland 3%Cropland 4%Trees 90%Grassland 4%Wetland 0%Cropland 5%90%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km99%
  • 1–3 km89%
  • 3–6 km93%
  • 6–10 km90%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees89%
  • Grassland9%
  • Cropland2%

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

56 species recorded.

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

Common Buzzard
Common BuzzardButeo buteo7 recordscaroline legg · CC BY 2.0
Eurasian Jay
Eurasian JayGarrulus glandarius7 recordsLuc Viatour · CC BY-SA 3.0
Common Crane
Common CraneGrus grus6 recordsAndreas Eichler · CC BY-SA 4.0
Black Woodpecker
Black WoodpeckerDryocopus martius6 recordsAlastair Rae from London, United Kingdom · CC BY-SA 2.0
Blackbird
BlackbirdTurdus merula6 recordsKahvilokki · CC BY-SA 4.0
Common Chiffchaff
Common ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita6 recordsAlexis Lours · CC BY 4.0
Eurasian Chaffinch
Eurasian ChaffinchFringilla coelebs6 records4028mdk09 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major5 recordsПлешков Алексей · CC BY-SA 3.0
Common Cuckoo
Common CuckooCuculus canorus5 recordsGabrielBuissart · CC BY-SA 3.0
Great Tit
Great TitParus major5 recordsPeterRohrbeck · CC BY-SA 4.0
Capercaillie
CapercaillieTetrao urogallus4 recordsS. John, Elsterwerda · CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Common Snipe
Common SnipeGallinago gallinago4 recordsAlpsdake · CC BY-SA 3.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

76out of 100

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

  • 90%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 95%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 56Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 164 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in May and in September.

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

  1. Jan-4°-10°51 mm
  2. Feb-2°-9°42 mm
  3. Mar3°-5°43 mm
  4. Apr12°1°45 mm
  5. May18°8°79 mm
  6. Jun21°12°77 mm
  7. Jul24°14°101 mm
  8. Aug23°13°77 mm
  9. Sep18°8°52 mm
  10. Oct10°3°64 mm
  11. Nov4°-1°53 mm
  12. Dec-2°-6°52 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Naliboki forest.

Old-growth forest

Naliboki forest is a forest in Belarus.

Seen from space, 90% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 95% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

56 species have been recorded around it: 0 plants, 0 fungi, 53 birds and 3 mammals.

The best time to walk is in May and in September.

Пейзаж Республиканского ландшафтного заказника "Налибокский"
Варвара А. · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

  • Добрае месца для стаянкі з намётаміcampsite · 3.5 km · 4 within 10 km
  • Налібоцкі ізумрудplace to stay · 8.5 km · 3 within 10 km
  • Ivyanyetsnearest town · 20 km in a straight line
  • Minsk National Airport (MSQ)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 105 km in a straight lineCar hire at VNO airport (Vilnius)Discover Cars · sponsored link

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.

Naliboki forest 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 kmДуб
  • 1picnic sites within 4 km
  • 1shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 4campsites within 10 kmДобрае месца для стаянкі з намётамі, Кемпінг каля ракі Уса and 2 more
  • 3places to stay within 10 kmНалібоцкі ізумруд, Экасядзіба Навусць, Сябрыньскія азёры
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • viewpoints within 5 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km
  • car parks within 3 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 Naliboki forest.

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
Gora Perekop205 m · 12 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.

ECOhant Тишь да гладь. Налибокская пуща
ECOhant · CC BY-SA 4.0
Далеко,далеко на лугу пасутся ко...? Налибоквская пуща 01
ECOhant · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Naliboki forest

Belarus

  • 76Forestyas Score
  • 90%Trees
  • 95%Wild
  • 56Species

Rūdininkai Forest

Lithuania · 104 km

  • 79Forestyas Score
  • 98%Trees
  • 95%Wild
  • 127Species

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Hrodzenskaja pušča

Belarus · 139 km

  • 74Forestyas Score
  • 72%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 122Species

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Białowieża Forest

Belarus · 208 km

  • 88Forestyas Score
  • 96%Trees
  • 97%Wild
  • 240Species

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Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q645983) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species223 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 atlasesPeakyas

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

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