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Atatürk Forest (Israel)

Greg Schechter from San Francisco, USA · CC BY 2.0

65% trees around it and 343 species recorded.

71Forestyas Score

ForestBirdsWildlife

  • trees within 3 km65%
  • wild within 10 km89%
  • species recorded343

The forest around

65% 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 77%Shrubland 2%Grassland 6%Bare ground 1%Cropland 3%Built-up 10%Trees 64%Shrubland 5%Grassland 12%Water 2%Bare ground 1%Cropland 9%Built-up 8%Trees 44%Shrubland 3%Grassland 14%Wetland 0%Water 22%Bare ground 2%Cropland 8%Built-up 6%Trees 30%Shrubland 4%Grassland 17%Wetland 0%Water 39%Bare ground 1%Cropland 3%Built-up 6%65%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km77%
  • 1–3 km64%
  • 3–6 km44%
  • 6–10 km30%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees64%
  • Shrubland5%
  • Grassland12%
  • Wetland0%
  • Water2%
  • Bare ground1%
  • Cropland9%
  • Built-up8%

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

343 species recorded.

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

Animated oat
Animated oatAvena sterilis1,321 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Goatgrass
GoatgrassAegilops speltoides126 recordsJose Hernandez · Public domain
Spontaneous barley
Spontaneous barleyHordeum spontaneum58 recordsDaderot · Public domain
Slender Oat
Slender OatAvena barbata26 recordsJose Hernandez · Public domain
Withania
WithaniaWithania somnifera8 recordsSAplants · CC BY-SA 4.0
Rivet wheat
Rivet wheatTriticum turgidum6 recordsStan Shebs · CC BY-SA 3.0
Mastic tree
Mastic treePistacia lentiscus5 recordsFranz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen · Public domain
Barbary Nut Iris
Barbary Nut IrisMoraea sisyrinchium4 recordsZeynel Cebeci · CC BY-SA 4.0
Ophrys umbilicata
Ophrys umbilicataOphrys umbilicata4 recordsOrchi · CC BY-SA 3.0
Ground-pine
Ground-pineAjuga chamaepitys4 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Silverleaf nightshade
Silverleaf nightshadeSolanum elaeagnifolium4 recordsPLAKLE · CC BY-SA 4.0
Calycotome villosa
Calycotome villosaCalicotome villosa4 recordsHans Hillewaert · 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.

71out of 100

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

  • 65%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 89%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 343Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km

When to walk

Best for walking in March and in December.

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

  1. Jan16°9°118 mm
  2. Feb17°10°88 mm
  3. Mar20°11°46 mm
  4. Apr23°13°23 mm
  5. May26°16°7 mm
  6. Jun30°20°1 mm
  7. Jul32°22°1 mm
  8. Aug32°23°1 mm
  9. Sep30°22°2 mm
  10. Oct28°19°18 mm
  11. Nov23°15°57 mm
  12. Dec19°11°104 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Atatürk Forest (Israel).

Forest planted by immigrants from Turkey

Atatürk Forest (Israel) is a forest in Israel.

Seen from space, 65% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 89% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

343 species have been recorded around it: 46 plants, 1 fungi, 258 birds and 38 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Animated oat, Goatgrass and Spontaneous barley.

The best time to walk is in March and in December.

Israel. Nahal Me'arot (15762168576)
Greg Schechter from San Francisco, USA · CC BY 2.0

Get there and walk

  • חניון לילה - תנועות הנוערcampsite · 1.2 km · 12 within 10 km
  • צימר עידןplace to stay · 3.7 km · 18 within 10 km
  • Geva‘ Karmelnearest town · 1.3 km in a straight line
  • Uri Michaeli Haifa International Airport (HFA)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 19 km in a straight lineCar hire at TLV airport (Tel Aviv)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.

Atatürk Forest (Israel) 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

  • 27marked trails within 5 kmשביל ישראל, שביל חוף דור הבונים and 25 more
  • 8picnic sites within 4 kmחניון שבילי רון, חניון הזיתים, הפינה של אורי and 5 more
  • 1shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 15viewpoints within 5 kmמגדל התצפית יער עופר, תצפית מתל דור, ספסל ותצפית and 12 more
  • 1visitor centres within 6 kmנחל מערות
  • 23car parks within 3 km
  • 12campsites within 10 kmחניון לילה - תנועות הנוער, חניון לילה נחל אורן, חניון לילה רקית and 9 more
  • 18places to stay within 10 kmצימר עידן, יקיר אירוח כפרי, חאן יותם and 15 more
  • 2restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • named and notable trees 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 Atatürk Forest (Israel).

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.

Peakyas34 mountains within 25 km
Har Sumaq358 m · 6.7 kmHar Mehallel458 m · 7.3 kmMount Shokef497 m · 8.7 kmMount Arkan480 m · 9.4 kmRom Carmel546 m · 12 kmKeren HaCarmel474 m · 12 kmGiv'at HaHagana528 m · 12 kmAlexander Mountain527 m · 24 km
Viewyas3 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Ofer watch tower0.5 kmOchberg Lookout14 kmGalit Overlook14 km
Cavernyas8 caves within 20 km
HaPa'amon cave3.2 kmFureidis Archaeology site5.3 kmSefunim Cave9.4 kmKebara Cave11 kmRaqefet Cave11 kmOrnit caves12 kmPalmach Cave17 kmCave of Elijah20 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.

PikiWiki Israel 35828 Ofer Forest
Aviva zeevi · CC BY 2.5
PikiWiki Israel 35829 Trunk
Aviva zeevi · CC BY 2.5
Israel. Nahal Me'arot (15783370341)
Greg Schechter from San Francisco, USA · CC BY 2.0

Other forests nearby.

Atatürk Forest (Israel)

Israel

  • 71Forestyas Score
  • 65%Trees
  • 89%Wild
  • 343Species

Rihan forest

Israel · 25 km

  • 55Forestyas Score
  • 54%Trees
  • 82%Wild
  • 59Species

See the guide

Alonei Abba nature reserve

Israel · 22 km

  • 45Forestyas Score
  • 40%Trees
  • 57%Wild
  • 262Species

See the guide

Birya forest

Israel · 64 km

  • 58Forestyas Score
  • 50%Trees
  • 77%Wild
  • 288Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q55604347) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species70,782 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, Viewyas, Cavernyas

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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