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Neigembos

FrDr · CC BY-SA 4.0

22% trees around it and 1,225 species recorded.

43Forestyas Score

ForestFungiBirdsWildlife

  • trees within 3 km22%
  • wild within 10 km58%
  • species recorded1,225
  • Altitude80 m

The forest around

22% 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 48%Grassland 32%Cropland 14%Built-up 7%Trees 19%Grassland 37%Cropland 35%Built-up 8%Trees 26%Grassland 36%Cropland 27%Built-up 12%Trees 23%Grassland 34%Cropland 33%Built-up 10%22%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km48%
  • 1–3 km19%
  • 3–6 km26%
  • 6–10 km23%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees19%
  • Grassland37%
  • Cropland35%
  • 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

1,225 species recorded.

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

Common Bluebell
Common BluebellHyacinthoides non-scripta1,364 recordsJackyM59 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Wood Anemone
Wood AnemoneAnemone nemorosa754 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Ramsons
RamsonsAllium ursinum726 recordsAgnes Monkelbaan · CC BY-SA 4.0
Yellow Archangel
Yellow ArchangelLamium galeobdolon720 recordsTeun Spaans · CC BY 2.5
Common buttercup
Common buttercupRanunculus acris711 recordsAlinja · CC BY-SA 4.0
Snakeshead
SnakesheadArum maculatum639 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
David’s-harp
David’s-harpPolygonatum multiflorum549 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
True oxlip
True oxlipPrimula elatior547 recordsԱրարատ Թրվանց · CC BY-SA 4.0
Cobnut
CobnutCorylus avellana533 recordsMPF · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cuckoo flower
Cuckoo flowerCardamine pratensis525 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cabbage Thistle
Cabbage ThistleCirsium oleraceum488 recordsDiAuras · CC BY-SA 4.0
Broadleaf enchanter's nightshade
Broadleaf enchanter's nightshadeCircaea lutetiana477 recordsUser:Kilom691 · Public domain

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

43out of 100

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

  • 22%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 58%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 1,225Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 80 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°69 mm
  2. Feb6°0°60 mm
  3. Mar10°2°55 mm
  4. Apr15°4°38 mm
  5. May18°8°59 mm
  6. Jun22°12°63 mm
  7. Jul24°14°75 mm
  8. Aug23°13°79 mm
  9. Sep20°10°55 mm
  10. Oct15°7°63 mm
  11. Nov10°4°69 mm
  12. Dec6°1°78 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Neigembos.

Forest in Ninove, Belgium

Neigembos is a forest in Belgium.

Seen from space, 22% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 58% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

1,225 species have been recorded around it: 798 plants, 183 fungi, 219 birds and 25 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Common Bluebell, Wood Anemone and Ramsons.

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

Neigembos 09
FrDr · CC BY-SA 4.0

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.

Neigembos 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

  • 250marked trails within 5 kmTweedorpenwandeling, Galgeveldwandeling and 248 more
  • 1named and notable trees within 6 kmEik
  • 30picnic sites within 4 kmMestdaghhut and 29 more
  • 135shelters and huts within 6 kmBeddepisserskapel and 134 more
  • 2viewpoints within 5 km
  • 1visitor centres within 6 kmDienst toerisme
  • 47car parks within 3 km
  • 7campsites within 10 kmBivakzone Nellekensbos, Camperplaats Roosdaal, Camperplaats Paddenbroek and 4 more
  • 35places to stay within 10 kmDe Woestijn, Het Hof van Petronilla, Warandehof and 32 more
  • 24restaurants 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 Neigembos.

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.

Peakyas43 mountains within 25 km
Bosberg105 m · 10 kmBruine Put120 m · 18 kmTenbosse74 m · 21 kmCoudenberg - Koudenberg21 kmValkenberg98 m · 22 kmMolenberg56 m · 22 kmLeberg99 m · 24 kmMont de Rhodes141 m · 24 km
Darkskyas4 dark-sky places within 30 km
Beersel Hills ObservatoryBortle 8 · 18 kmRoyal Observatory of BelgiumBortle 8 · 21 kmBrussels PlanetariumBortle 9 · 21 kmformer observatory of BrusselsBortle 9 · 22 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.

Kolenwoud - Neigembos (2005-04-30 16-05-44)
Johan Allard · CC BY-SA 4.0
Neigembos 03
FrDr · CC BY-SA 4.0
Neigembos
Donarreiskoffer · CC BY 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Neigembos

Belgium

  • 43Forestyas Score
  • 22%Trees
  • 58%Wild
  • 1,225Species

Sonian Forest

Belgium · 27 km

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

See the guide

Forêt de Mormal

France · 72 km

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

See the guide

Halle Forest

Belgium · 20 km

  • 61Forestyas Score
  • 60%Trees
  • 59%Wild
  • 1,163Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1836727) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species125,063 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

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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