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Bois d'Acren - Akrenbos

FrDr · CC BY-SA 4.0

29% trees around it and 936 species recorded.

42Forestyas Score

ForestBirdsWildlife

  • trees within 3 km29%
  • wild within 10 km50%
  • species recorded936
  • Altitude61 m

The forest around

29% 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 69%Grassland 11%Water 1%Bare ground 1%Cropland 15%Built-up 4%Trees 24%Grassland 29%Water 1%Bare ground 2%Cropland 35%Built-up 9%Trees 21%Grassland 30%Cropland 41%Built-up 8%Trees 19%Grassland 30%Cropland 45%Built-up 6%29%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km69%
  • 1–3 km24%
  • 3–6 km21%
  • 6–10 km19%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees24%
  • Grassland29%
  • Water1%
  • Bare ground2%
  • Cropland35%
  • Built-up9%

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

936 species recorded.

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

Queen of the meadow
Queen of the meadowFilipendula ulmaria371 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Common buttercup
Common buttercupRanunculus acris314 recordsAlinja · CC BY-SA 4.0
Moschatel
MoschatelAdoxa moschatellina218 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Common Bluebell
Common BluebellHyacinthoides non-scripta215 recordsJackyM59 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Yellow Archangel
Yellow ArchangelLamium galeobdolon211 recordsTeun Spaans · CC BY 2.5
Wood Anemone
Wood AnemoneAnemone nemorosa211 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Lesser Celandine
Lesser CelandineFicaria verna211 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Consound
ConsoundSymphytum officinale202 recordsAgnieszka Kwiecień ( Nova ) · CC BY 2.5
Cuckoo flower
Cuckoo flowerCardamine pratensis202 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Snakeshead
SnakesheadArum maculatum181 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Rabelera holostea
Rabelera holosteaRabelera holostea180 recordsiNaturalist.org (spoonbilling) · CC BY 4.0
Common Sorrel
Common SorrelRumex acetosa173 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

42out of 100

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

  • 29%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 50%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 936Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 61 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. Jan5°0°66 mm
  2. Feb6°0°59 mm
  3. Mar10°2°56 mm
  4. Apr15°4°41 mm
  5. May18°8°59 mm
  6. Jun22°11°63 mm
  7. Jul23°13°70 mm
  8. Aug23°13°76 mm
  9. Sep20°10°52 mm
  10. Oct15°7°63 mm
  11. Nov10°4°70 mm
  12. Dec6°1°76 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Bois d'Acren - Akrenbos.

Forest in Deux-Acren and Bever, Belgium

Bois d'Acren - Akrenbos is a forest in Belgium.

Seen from space, 29% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 50% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

936 species have been recorded around it: 736 plants, 2 fungi, 179 birds and 19 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Queen of the meadow, Common buttercup and Moschatel.

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

Bois d'Acren 03
FrDr · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

  • Aire de camping-car de Lessinescampsite · 3.3 km · 4 within 10 km
  • Le Jardin du Paradisplace to stay · 1.4 km · 50 within 10 km
  • Bois-de-Lessinesnearest town · 1.9 km in a straight line
  • Brussels Airport (BRU)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 47 km in a straight lineCar hire at BRU airport (Zaventem)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.

Bois d'Acren - Akrenbos 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

  • 83marked trails within 5 kmCarrières de Lessines, GR 5A Wandelronde van Vlaanderen (Zuid) and 81 more
  • 2named and notable trees within 6 kmTutterboom, Arbre de la Liberté
  • 17picnic sites within 4 km
  • 61shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 2viewpoints within 5 kmCarrières Unies de Porphyre (CUP)
  • 2visitor centres within 6 kmOffice du Tourisme
  • 33car parks within 3 km
  • 4campsites within 10 kmAire de camping-car de Lessines, Verblijfpark Raspaljebos, Domein de Gavers and 1 more
  • 50places to stay within 10 kmLe Jardin du Paradis, Rosario, Vakantiehuis Fine Fleur and 47 more
  • 5restaurants 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 Bois d'Acren - Akrenbos.

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.

Peakyas75 mountains within 25 km
Bosberg105 m · 7.7 kmLeberg99 m · 17 kmMuziekberg145 m · 18 kmTaaienberg90 m · 20 kmEikenberg82 m · 21 kmMolenberg56 m · 22 kmKoppenberg78 m · 24 kmPaterberg80 m · 24 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.

Akrenbos 12
FrDr · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Bois d'Acren - Akrenbos

Belgium

  • 42Forestyas Score
  • 29%Trees
  • 50%Wild
  • 936Species

Sonian Forest

Belgium · 40 km

  • 76Forestyas Score
  • 80%Trees
  • 71%Wild
  • 1,917Species

See the guide

Forêt de Mormal

France · 58 km

  • 80Forestyas Score
  • 91%Trees
  • 76%Wild
  • 1,164Species

See the guide

Forest of Bonsecours

Belgium · 30 km

  • 62Forestyas Score
  • 56%Trees
  • 65%Wild
  • 1,479Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q21769087) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species56,113 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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