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Svydovets protected massif

Yevhen Sosnovsky · CC BY-SA 4.0

77% trees around it and 103 species recorded.

76Forestyas Score

ForestWildMountain forest

  • trees within 3 km77%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded103
  • Altitude1,250 m

The forest around

77% 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 58%Grassland 42%Trees 80%Grassland 20%Trees 80%Grassland 19%Water 0%Built-up 0%Trees 82%Grassland 18%Water 0%77%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km58%
  • 1–3 km80%
  • 3–6 km80%
  • 6–10 km82%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees80%
  • Grassland20%
  • Water0%

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

103 species recorded.

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

Aconitum lycoctonum
Aconitum lycoctonumAconitum lycoctonum9 recordsH. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0
Ranunculus carpaticus
Ranunculus carpaticusRanunculus carpaticus8 recordsBioDasha · CC BY-SA 4.0
Phyteuma vagneri
Phyteuma vagneriPhyteuma vagneri6 recordsAnna Kuzemko · CC BY-SA 4.0
Viola declinata
Viola declinataViola declinata6 recordsxulescu_g · CC BY-SA 2.0
Lesser butterfly-orchid
Lesser butterfly-orchidPlatanthera bifolia6 recordsHans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 4.0
Cardamine glanduligera
Cardamine glanduligeraCardamine glanduligera5 recordsViavento · CC BY-SA 4.0
Symphytum cordatum
Symphytum cordatumSymphytum cordatum5 recordsAgnieszka Kwiecień ( Nova ) · CC BY-SA 4.0
Mountain arnica
Mountain arnicaArnica montana5 recordsW. Bulach · CC BY-SA 4.0
Round-headed orchid
Round-headed orchidTraunsteinera globosa4 recordsBernd Haynold · CC BY 2.5
Common oak fern
Common oak fernGymnocarpium dryopteris3 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Stag's-horn Clubmoss
Stag's-horn ClubmossLycopodium clavatum3 recordsBernd Haynold · CC BY-SA 3.0
Alpine clubmoss
Alpine clubmossDiphasiastrum alpinum3 recordsAlastair Rae · CC BY-SA 2.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

76out of 100

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

  • 77%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 103Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 1,250 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

Svydovets protected massif.

Protected area in the Ukrainian Carpathians

Svydovets protected massif is a forest in Ukraine, 1,250 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 77% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

103 species have been recorded around it: 58 plants, 0 fungi, 37 birds and 8 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Aconitum lycoctonum, Ranunculus carpaticus and Phyteuma vagneri.

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

Svydovets landscape1
Yevhen Sosnovsky · 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.

Svydovets protected massif 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

  • 10marked trails within 5 kmЗакарпатський туристичний шлях, Rakhiv-Blyznytsyia, с. Білин - притулок Перелісок and 7 more
  • 4picnic sites within 4 km
  • 25shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 54campsites within 10 kmCampsite (wooden ruins), Petros and 52 more
  • 80places to stay within 10 kmЛісова казка, ОАЗА, Полонина and 77 more
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • viewpoints within 5 km
  • 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 Svydovets protected massif.

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.

Peakyas45 mountains within 25 km
Blyznytsya1,881 m · 7.2 kmDragobrat1,763 m · 8.2 kmPetrosul1,855 m · 15 kmPetros2,020 m · 15 kmHoverla2,061 m · 21 kmBreskul1,911 m · 22 kmBratkivs'ka1,788 m · 23 kmTurkul1,933 m · 24 km
Darkskyas5 dark-sky places within 30 km
PetrosBortle 2 · 15 kmHoverlaBortle 2 · 21 kmHutyn TomnatykBortle 2 · 26 kmPip IvanBortle 2 · 27 kmBrebeneskulBortle 2 · 28 km
Cascadyas4 waterfalls within 15 km
Malotrostianetskyi Waterfall5 m · 4.6 kmTrufanets Waterfall9.2 kmVodospad Svydovets12 kmKamianyi Waterfall2 m · 14 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.

Масив Близниці
Estolyarov · CC BY-SA 4.0
Cвидовецький заповідний масив 01
Gudyma s · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cвидовецький заповідний масив 02
Gudyma s · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Svydovets protected massif

Ukraine

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

Kuzii protected area

Ukraine · 26 km

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

See the guide

Uholka-Shyrokyi Luh primeval beech forest

Ukraine · 37 km

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

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Cluj-Napoca Botanical Garden

Romania · 163 km

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

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q4410694) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species585 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

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers, canyons, caves, dark skies, viewpoints, birdwatching or forests?

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

beachesCoastyaFind your beach: sea temperature, sun and swimming month by month.Visit lakesLakeyasEvery lake on Earth: water temperature, ice, depth and the shore.Visit mountainsPeakyasEvery summit in 3D: summit weather, the 0 °C line, huts and trails.Visit waterfallsCascadyasEvery waterfall: height, flow month by month and when it roars.Visit islandsIslandyasEvery island from the sea up: size, sea temperature, ferries and 3D.Visit riversRiveryasEvery river from source to sea: the journey, the flow and the basin in numbers.Visit canyonsCanyonyasEvery canyon cut to scale: depth to the floor, rim and floor temperatures, trails and viewpoints.Visit cavesCavernyasEvery cave with its real depth and length: the rock above, the temperature inside all year, and how to visit.Visit dark skiesDarkskyasWhere the night is still dark: the sky of every place, the Milky Way month by month, the Moon, eclipses and auroras.Visit
viewpointsViewyasEvery viewpoint with its real 360° panorama: the peaks you can name, how far you see and where the sun sets.Coming soonVisit
birdwatchingBirdyasEvery bird sanctuary and wetland with the species recorded month by month: who is resident, who comes for the summer, who only passes through.Visit
forestsForestyasEvery forest with its land-cover rings, what grows and lives in it, and the best months to walk it.You are here