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Kuzii protected area

Леонід Сніцарук · CC BY-SA 3.0

92% trees around it and 147 species recorded.

86Forestyas Score

ForestDense canopyWildWorld Heritage

  • trees within 3 km92%
  • wild within 10 km98%
  • species recorded147
  • Altitude429 m

The forest around

92% 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 100%Water 0%Trees 92%Grassland 7%Water 2%Trees 80%Grassland 17%Water 1%Cropland 0%Built-up 1%Trees 78%Grassland 19%Water 0%Cropland 0%Built-up 2%92%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km100%
  • 1–3 km92%
  • 3–6 km80%
  • 6–10 km78%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees92%
  • Grassland7%
  • Water2%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up0%

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

147 species recorded.

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

Rowan
RowanSorbus aucuparia259 recordsGiallopolenta · Public domain
Dog's-tooth-violet
Dog's-tooth-violetErythronium dens-canis252 recordsxulescu_g · CC BY-SA 2.0
Whortleberry
WhortleberryVaccinium myrtillus240 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
BucaneveNT
BucaneveGalanthus nivalis218 recordsTim Green · CC BY 2.0
Small-leaved Lime
Small-leaved LimeTilia cordata210 recordsImreKiss · CC BY 3.0
Pheasant's-eye Daffodil
Pheasant's-eye DaffodilNarcissus poeticus209 recordsArnaucc · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cobnut
CobnutCorylus avellana199 recordsMPF · CC BY-SA 3.0
European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica194 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wood Anemone
Wood AnemoneAnemone nemorosa181 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Martagon lily
Martagon lilyLilium martagon180 recordsTinelot Wittermans · CC BY-SA 3.0
Horse-chestnutVU
Horse-chestnutAesculus hippocastanum178 recordsStephan van Helden · CC BY-SA 4.0
Spring Snowflake
Spring SnowflakeLeucojum vernum173 recordsSmihael · 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.

86out of 100

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

  • 92%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 98%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 147Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 429 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in June and in September.

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

  1. Jan-3°-10°50 mm
  2. Feb-1°-9°51 mm
  3. Mar3°-5°64 mm
  4. Apr11°0°66 mm
  5. May16°6°114 mm
  6. Jun19°10°125 mm
  7. Jul21°12°120 mm
  8. Aug22°11°80 mm
  9. Sep17°6°76 mm
  10. Oct10°1°69 mm
  11. Nov5°-2°56 mm
  12. Dec-2°-8°55 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Kuzii protected area.

Kuzii protected area is a forest in Ukraine, 429 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 92% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 98% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

147 species have been recorded around it: 96 plants, 32 fungi, 6 birds and 13 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Rowan, Dog's-tooth-violet and Whortleberry.

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

Вдсп Кузій-2
Леонід Сніцарук · 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.

Kuzii protected area 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

  • 4marked trails within 5 kmV. Vișeului - Cabana Paltin - Cantonul Silvic Repedea, До секвой, Drumul Maramureșului and 1 more
  • 7named and notable trees within 6 kmТис ягідний, Виноград Антосяка, Грушка and 4 more
  • 5picnic sites within 4 km
  • 8shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 1viewpoints within 5 kmСоколине Бердо
  • 5campsites within 10 kmBase camp Kos.Polyana, Рекреаційний пункт кв. 22 виділ 3 and 3 more
  • 10places to stay within 10 kmПрезидент, Тис, Pensiunea Roxana and 7 more
  • 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 Kuzii protected area.

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.

Peakyas17 mountains within 25 km
Hora Tempa1.8 kmHora Lysyna6.3 kmHora Butyn9.3 kmKobyla11 kmZherban1,793 m · 14 kmBerlebashka1,734 m · 15 kmPip Ivan1,938 m · 16 kmHora Petros17 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Pip IvanBortle 2 · 16 km
Cascadyas7 waterfalls within 15 km
Polonsko-Kuziiskyi Waterfall2 m · this placeLykhyi Waterfall20 m · 5.8 kmTarnychyn Waterfall6 m · 8.7 kmYalynskii Waterfall26 m · 10 kmKobyletskyi Huk Waterfall22 m · 12 kmKamianyi Waterfall2 m · 12 kmYavirnykovyi Waterfall14 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Tisza966 km · 796 m³/sIza River80 km · 17 m³/sBătarci

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Bergmassief Koeziejsky - UNESCO-informatiepaneel
Grishchenko, M. & Metselaar, J. · CC BY-SA 4.0
2009 0718КримГород0157
Леонід Сніцарук · CC BY-SA 3.0
Lug - panoramio - badzeluk
badzeluk · CC BY 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Kuzii protected area

Ukraine

  • 86Forestyas Score
  • 92%Trees
  • 98%Wild
  • 147Species

Svydovets protected massif

Ukraine · 26 km

  • 76Forestyas Score
  • 77%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 103Species

See the guide

Uholka-Shyrokyi Luh primeval beech forest

Ukraine · 45 km

  • 76Forestyas Score
  • 85%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 56Species

See the guide

Cluj-Napoca Botanical Garden

Romania · 137 km

  • 50Forestyas Score
  • 30%Trees
  • 74%Wild
  • 274Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q12115573) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species5,110 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, Darkskyas, Cascadyas, Riveryas

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

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viewpointsViewyasEvery viewpoint with its real 360° panorama: the peaks you can name, how far you see and where the sun sets.Coming soonVisit
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