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Peace Forest

Sebastian Wallroth from Deutschland · CC BY 2.0

8% trees around it and 438 species recorded.

34Forestyas Score

ForestBirds

  • trees within 3 km8%
  • wild within 10 km62%
  • species recorded438
  • Altitude696 m

The forest around

8% 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 16%Shrubland 6%Grassland 11%Bare ground 0%Cropland 0%Built-up 66%Trees 7%Shrubland 4%Grassland 12%Bare ground 2%Cropland 2%Built-up 74%Trees 7%Shrubland 8%Grassland 29%Bare ground 4%Cropland 2%Built-up 50%Trees 9%Shrubland 15%Grassland 43%Bare ground 7%Cropland 2%Built-up 25%8%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km16%
  • 1–3 km7%
  • 3–6 km7%
  • 6–10 km9%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees7%
  • Shrubland4%
  • Grassland12%
  • Bare ground2%
  • Cropland2%
  • Built-up74%

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

438 species recorded.

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

Animated oat
Animated oatAvena sterilis259 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Spontaneous barley
Spontaneous barleyHordeum spontaneum120 recordsDaderot · Public domain
Rivet wheat
Rivet wheatTriticum turgidum40 recordsStan Shebs · CC BY-SA 3.0
St. John's Bread
St. John's BreadCeratonia siliqua27 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bermuda buttercup
Bermuda buttercupOxalis pes-caprae23 recordsM ath K night and Zachi Evenor אביר המתמטיקה וצחי אבנור · CC BY-SA 4.0
Myrtle
MyrtleMyrtus communis23 recordsJúlio Reis ( Tintazul ) · CC BY-SA 2.5
Prickly lettuce
Prickly lettuceLactuca serriola21 recordsHerbarium of the University of Coimbra (COI) · CC BY 4.0
Cicer judaicum
Cicer judaicumCicer judaicum19 recordsHerbarium of the University of Coimbra (COI) · CC BY 4.0
Laurustinus
LaurustinusViburnum tinus18 recordsGiuseppe Frizzi · Public domain
Olive tree
Olive treeOlea europaea18 recordsHans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 3.0
Squirting Cucumber
Squirting CucumberEcballium elaterium17 recordsGiuseppe Frizzi · Public domain
Slender Oat
Slender OatAvena barbata14 recordsJose Hernandez · 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.

34out of 100

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

  • 8%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 62%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 438Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 696 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in March.

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

  1. Jan16°7°88 mm
  2. Feb17°8°62 mm
  3. Mar20°9°37 mm
  4. Apr24°12°21 mm
  5. May28°15°5 mm
  6. Jun31°18°1 mm
  7. Jul33°20°1 mm
  8. Aug33°21°0 mm
  9. Sep31°20°2 mm
  10. Oct28°17°14 mm
  11. Nov23°13°46 mm
  12. Dec18°9°83 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Peace Forest.

Park in Jerusalem

Peace Forest is a forest in Israel, 696 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 8% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 62% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

438 species have been recorded around it: 159 plants, 10 fungi, 264 birds and 5 mammals.

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

The best time to walk is in March.

Flickr - swallroth - Jerusalem (22)
Sebastian Wallroth from Deutschland · CC BY 2.0

Get there and walk

  • IVE Campamentocampsite · 5.9 km · 7 within 10 km
  • The Maurice M. Dwek Guest Houseplace to stay · 1.6 km · 250 within 10 km
  • Giv`at H̱ananyanearest town · 1.1 km in a straight line
  • Ben Gurion International Airport (TLV)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 43 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.

Peace 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

  • 8marked trails within 5 kmVia Crucis, שביל הצבאים, שביל הארז and 5 more
  • 1named and notable trees within 6 kmארז בן גוריון
  • 31picnic sites within 4 km
  • 18shelters and huts within 6 kmShalshelet Shelter, בית חם and 16 more
  • 54viewpoints within 5 kmWestern Wall Observation Point, תצפית יהודאי, מצפור תומר and 51 more
  • 15visitor centres within 6 kmקופות הגן הארכיאולוגי ירושלים, לשכת מידע בעיר העתיקה, Indie Travelers Center and 12 more
  • 252car parks within 3 km
  • 7campsites within 10 kmIVE Campamento, منزل ومشغل ابو خليل, مادي تل and 4 more
  • 250places to stay within 10 kmThe Maurice M. Dwek Guest House, Cassia Hotel, דן פנורמה and 247 more
  • 234restaurants 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 Peace 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.

Peakyas129 mountains within 25 km
Mount Zion765 m · 2.0 kmTemple Mount743 m · 2.1 kmCalvary2.4 kmMoriah768 m · 2.4 kmMount of Olives826 m · 2.9 kmMount Scopus826 m · 4.2 kmMount Herzl834 m · 5.0 kmMount Nabi Yunis1,026 m · 23 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
Planetarium WilliamsBortle 9 · 3.9 kmJudaean DesertBortle 6 · 9.1 km
Viewyas11 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Mount Zion765 m · 1.6 kmTemple Mount743 m · 2.3 kmCalvary2.4 kmMount of Olives826 m · 2.7 kmMitzpor Tomer Mordechai2.9 kmMount Scopus826 m · 4.1 kmMount Herzl834 m · 5.1 kmArthur Rubinstein lookout9.1 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 km
Jerusalem Bird Observatory234 species · 3.4 km
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 km
David street2.0 km
Cavernyas7 caves within 20 km
Well of Souls2.3 kmGrotto of the Holy Cross2.4 kmGrotto of Gethsemane2.7 kmStone vessels' cave4.3 kmB'nai B'rith cave19 kmAvshalom Cave20 kmHa-Teomim cave20 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.

Amphi shalom
Jbu777 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Flickr - swallroth - Jerusalem (21)
Sebastian Wallroth from Deutschland · CC BY 2.0
Sunrise over Jerusalem (3499270573)
Chadica from Jerusalem, Israel · CC BY 2.0

Other forests nearby.

Peace Forest

Israel

  • 34Forestyas Score
  • 8%Trees
  • 62%Wild
  • 438Species

Forest of the Martyrs

Israel · 16 km

  • 65Forestyas Score
  • 59%Trees
  • 86%Wild
  • 255Species

See the guide

Aminadav Forest

Israel · 9 km

  • 52Forestyas Score
  • 40%Trees
  • 73%Wild
  • 327Species

See the guide

Eshtaol Forest

Israel · 24 km

  • 54Forestyas Score
  • 44%Trees
  • 74%Wild
  • 303Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q7157376) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species436,192 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, Viewyas, Birdyas, Canyonyas, 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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Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

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