Often a bit scared here on the edge of my forest. I saw 2 eyes glowing in a hollow. I couldnt explain them. Okay. Ah ah, when the corona virus pandemic broke out righty. Lenas high, flynn was desperate to get away out of berlin. He fled to the countryside. Ah, there living in solitude. He had a surprising realization he shot the canal no for not to what i had no clue about nature of issues. You could say i liked nature either, but i didnt know the animals. For example, how does this . I didnt know the birds on, ill that i could see that it was a birds only had that, but that was really, it was food. Maybe i could identify a great hit or something and i and i had no idea what kind of animals theyre worse. My mom lame, so just being here alone without distractions, these animals took on a certain meaning for the 1st time in my life 3 in to see him big. I started getting interested in them versus what kind of bird is that . Its a mentioned, is it male or female as emma, do i keep seeing the same one seat or are there several that looked the same like how soon i actually started to get interested in what was in front of me with da, sweetest nature. Even though ill do you not to. Hi. Since girlfriend has a small cabin in the woods beyond ohana book and can see north of berlin. He spent weeks and months living there alone. A kind of cautious, mutual observation, developed. The animals watched the strange man. The man watched the strange animals. Lou yamaha 13 to see the temperament. They have different temperaments, goes for example, among the birds. There are huge differences between both inches and not hatches that they have completely different mentalities, like italians and i dont know icelanders barely the both inches are sedate and quiet. They look around the they dont move that much and i wonder if theyre not hatches are constantly excited. That the sis as soon, thats how it is August Indian their individual to sing, but its like they also have different cultures or mentality soto mentally. Thank me. Ah, the experience inspired lenas high, flynn spoke and stopped mench invite, as city dweller in the forest. Iceland uses the pseudonym h. D. Weldon, a reference to the seminal work by american rice or henry david thorough the writer finds himself in a parallel universe. His previously only heard about nature. Hes shocked and ashamed to realize how little he knows this world, surrounded by unknown creatures, his perception and sense of time begin to change. Sounds that are frightening at 1st, like nocturnal cracks snuffles or creeping, become familiar. He realizes that humans are not alone. There is a whole world out there. Ah, ah, ah. In an estimation of the 1st few nights, i was often a bit scared by leon valden. Here on the edge of the forest. I saw 2 eyes glowing in a hollow. Okay. I couldnt explain them, should men, she looked too low down to be human geography. But kind of too high for an animal with young on off to go than there were the sounds align. Yeah. Which see much louder when youre here. All alone feel are much louder than they really are. Yeah. Is he seen . Im so i was a little bit scared. You got this from dr. Touch miss longs ah, what is nature . What do we mean when we use the word . Where does it begin and end . What should we do and not to do to protect it . Some answers to those questions can be found in the upper li, sasha region of east and germany. Here, decades of late night strip mining turned the land into a lean, scape of barren earth and contaminated water. But now its the size of a large scale environmental experiment and life has returned unexpectedly quickly into santa susanna. See, its interesting to see that they crossing the trail of them here in the walls. Territory the day have to be morrow, may god from the cement the wolves of a predators and predators themselves, often light to move a long trail, the swan. This is a great example of it. Why would a wolf walk beside the trail where its hot on what i did on the trail . Everything is firm. Its feet dont sink in so much. So the animal uses less energy. Whereas pray, animals will often just cross the trail that id like to move along them. Whats moniques will gandalf on globe ah, large parts of this region ill be critically referred to as post mining landscape. Its also wolf country. 20 years after the 1st modern wolf, citing, there are now more than 50 parks in the states of saxony and brandenburg and their spreading across germany. The predators come back also spells the return of a form of nature. Humans had forgotten how to live with wilderness. The question is, can it still exist in a modern, densely populated germany, in the heart of europe . Of was had can also, as im plot sometime with the wolf has just as much right to a place in nature as any other creature people. We cant always think about it in terms of positive and negative. I could say for me, the wolf is a positive because i run nature tours. My people come and want to see the world, the one and for a shepherd, it would be a negative. Thats the wrong way to look at it. It just doesnt work that way of the wolf is there period thought it has a right to be there just like me and the shepherd and so on. We have to figure out how we live together for them. When the excavate has left apaloosa, shes opened cast league night mines, leaving behind massive flag heaps. Authorities tried doing something new. Nothing. The maltreated earth was simply left alone. It wasnt a miracle that brought nature back to the beaten, but many small miracles. First came some pioneer plants and insects followed by more and more species. To day, the li sation Lake District is home to unusual animals and unusual people, like caston niche who wrote a book about his journey from coal industry worker to nature guide. The south image on puts us as wish, but now it was a process for me been english. Im from this region, my words go back to the sold ethnic group. Ive watched the villages die out and thats what affected me the most at the beginning. It was terrible the way this landfill vicki down to the excavators went, wouldnt one. What ended up happening was i moved to a Little Village here in the area near where i had worked. And i decided to go and look at the edges of the old strip mining area on to see what the landscape was like. Now im on charleston margies lunch 50 donna, come on on the hottest as somebody whos a high leave. And i had this aha moment me. When i got up to a high place like this, something i saw that there were loads of small water holes filled with masses of toads and grassland birds. All kinds of birds like lap when lodgers lashley, it was crazy how much was going on. And for the 1st time i realized that nature could reclaim this place. Even the fina tortoise would go and come in many places, a concept of untouched nature has become a romantic fantasy. Humans are everywhere and have largely pushed nature aside. Around half of europe, species of trees and freshwater fish are endangered, as are a total of around 60 percent of all protected species. But even in densely populated Central Europe, true wilderness can be found. Even if opinions differ on how to define it. Austrian Wildlife Photographers christine, is on villa and mark cough have spent. He is traveling through europes National Parks and protected areas for then wilderness isnt only untouched nature, but also respected nature. Theyre observing the re introduction and natural return of predators to european forests. Today theyve come to southern slovenia to photograph one of them, the brown bear. Again, ill go and pretend to be the bat and fair. Just when youre not in frame yet colon, listen, this is self spin of the maximum is included in clearfield. I grew up with the animal stories and films from the serengeti, from africa and north america owners and little fan really is a shame from the point of view of nature. Filmmaker not to be able or allowed to tell the stories of Central Europes animals. Besides, the very personal happiness you get encountering bears wolves, or lynx is, is also the urge to act like a sort of p r agent for european nature, for the people shouldnt forget that theres also a wildlife behind a house on the outskirts of berlin, income or in the alps in south to roll, and those stories can and should and must be told, younger sister absolutely will south unsold zone villa and coff spectacular photos make the animals themselves ambassadors for their species. At the same time, the photographers are documenting the successful re introduction, all resettlement of particular animals. Likes guardy, the lynx who was picked up by a camera trap in the snow of austrias limestone alps. The female lynx is now the cover girl of a book whose title translates as the wild heart of europe. In it. Photographers and all says christinas on villa and mock calf go in search of Central Europes primeval forests. They still exist in austria, germany, switzerland, northern italy, slovenia, poland, and slovakia. These are forests left to their own devices where rivers flow freely and were big predators like wolves, bears, and lynx is, are now slowly returning. How is the process going . How much wilderness can Central Europe tolerate . How much does it need . And wired forest without lodge predators like the wolfy on the bed and the links feels somehow empty. Thats what weve learned in reason is in the long run as beautiful as nature can be. It seems incomplete without large predators. Unfortunately, we know this because weve gotten to know the parts of Central Europe that are to exaggerate a bit full of bears like southern slovenia, full of wolves like loose asia in germany, or lynx is like in our homeland austria or dr. Lukes in on her modern restart. Is this lisa. Its hard to describe cincy. If you walk through a forest, its home to bez links, isnt wolves, and it heightens your senses. So maybe you realize that youre not at the top of the food chain. Oh though, actually in the case of the bear, its not really true because the european brown bears here a mainly herbivores help thinking plants from 5th. Theyre really not out to proud humans. Because in many still believe that when you walk through a forest, there are wild animals everywhere, ready to jump out from behind the next tree to kill you. Well, and thats not true. I had these animals are always careful to stay away from human supposedly. That includes the big predators and even europes largest predators, the brown back for mental counsel height. For a long time, the largest predator in lou sasha was column lining in his book cast in neat rights. Nothing and no one could stop strip mining. It asap the land and everything in it. It was like a black hole, not in space, but here on earth. At the time, people couldnt imagine life ever returning to these barren landscapes of mining waste. But nature found a way we do not really sure the address wed have to look over does is that sort of resurgence is no problem for nature. Nature has been doing that sort of thing for thousands and even millions of years right now. Earth and its landscapes are constantly changing. Were calm, i compare it to a volcanic eruption fun. But when the volcanoes dormant the slopes are full of growth and people might even settle their work, then theres a major eruption and everything is gone again. A lot the landscape looks as hostile as another planets all, but it wont be long until the landscape comes back to life. Thats whats happening here too. Im going to going on guns. Can also it sounds too good to be true. Turning a barren wasteland into a natural paradise just by doing nothing. But its not quite that simple. This animal haven is still dangerous for humans. 60 percent of the mining lance are now forested. But much of the land is inaccessible. Its too dangerous and unpredictable. Ah, it will continue to shift for centuries, and large areas could slide away. It wont stay as it is now. After all, landscapes are always dynamic when viewed over large periods of time. Muslim julie risten bus one going because we have to decide what we want to find out at some point after thousands of years on this lake would get more and more clogged by water plants on by animals and so on. What it would turn into a bog, and that bug would eventually so top and one day theyd be a forest too much. Of course that takes a very, very long time on monday. So we have to decide what we do. We permit that process. Do we allow nature and landscape to keep changing, ordered or do we want to maintain its condition in order to keep certain species in these areas hardened and easily beaten species like the praying mantis which is considered extinct in germany. In the last century, only isolated specimens have been cited over the read the eater. Seeing them return and seeing a research and german wilderness would be a huge success in ecological terms. But is it actually necessary of get brownie from home of the victims paulson . Well, its not about whether we need the wilderness so much thats thinking about it from a human perspective on what we needed for. We can also ask, what does the wilderness need us for them . But because were part of nature, we can see that the question doesnt make sense. Its obvious that Something Like wilderness has to exist and it will definitely do us good. But above all, we have a responsibility now because weve developed to such an extent and weve been constantly trying to destroy this system, which works very well on its own common and which has evolved over millions of years. Thats of the justification is always that 1st we need to think about jobs or this and that. And eventually well get down the list of priorities. But at some point it will be too late for. And then nature may very well show us al limits under, at some point thats going to happen a lot of perfume and alice drive south of slovenia as capital. Louisiana is an area home to one of the densest brown bay populations in the world. Nearly 1000 bears are said to live here in an area twice the size of luxemburg. Their numbers are growing. The bears could spread out into neighboring countries, but roads and densely populated alpine valleys block they weigh whats missing is the willingness among humans to make migrations possible and pressure look fresh tracks. Me thinking, oh, because you can see there were drinking and i think ill be definitely a bare is mucous fallen there on top of the really exciting and reassuring thing is that nature is coming back by itself. One example is the wolves in germany, lungs and another is the bears in southern sylvania, you know, theyre returning without human intervention. As of now, its just a matter of finding a way to exist together and demand. Im with als colinza is keep going. Thats concept. There when there are already ideas that link the economy and Nature Conservation and it, and theyre working with being homeless, clapped after a classic example, is a soft tourism, or eco tourism, which aims to make nature accessible to people of productive bisman. This works especially well in less economically developed regions where theres no large industry one. Bon scott was clinical single thinking. For example, in the high tantra mountains, between poland and slovakia, the brown bears here are a veritable tourist magnet with 50 animals, drawing millions of visitors to one to the National Parks trails every year. If that kind of coexistence works here, surely it can work elsewhere in Central Europe. In that book zone villa and cough imagined a europe of protected zones interconnected by green bridges that allow large predators to migrate. Forests would be left to grow wild and the Forestry Industry would largely stay on the sidelines. In the end, it would benefit every one. The home in middle open at sea are feeling their weakness. We dont have very much real wilderness in Central Europe, but we visited quite a few of these places and they all have one thing in common. Its always cumbersome, or the path is always arduous or impossible. The steep, rocky, or blocked by a fallen tree. All the paths of flooded ezekiel and the me thats the real core of what wilderness is, the uncertainty that needs you can bring up the looping and i think the impetus in europe in the last few centuries has been to eliminate the uncertainty to time nature, to know exactly what to expect in the foreign, all berries was and an ride out that if we leave nature alone, will everything work out for the best zone . Villa and coughs, book argues that we should no longer think of wilderness as something thats only far away. They photos show the almost unearthly beauty of nature. They right, we must stop seeing it as a consumer good and a backdrop for fun. We are the last generation that can still reactivate wilderness before it no longer exists. A co hopa serafina shown from defendants. Europe has many opportunities to become wilder again, that theres even a relatively young Conservation Movement with the english name re wilding thrift. The idea is to give momentum to certain landscapes that have the potential to become wilder. Again, were still to help the process along tracking the social circle. The, for example, by leaving dead wood where it is in the forest. When were allowing rivers to meander more freely, again, it does matter for soviet its a way of withdrawing again as humans and allowing nature to follow its original impulses knocked, isnt it . Yes, in course the idea is spreading more and more in europe, in the near, in our hope a hostile pride. Nature doesnt have to be spectacular or exotic to and the right to exist. Rare species are good, but having many species is better reserves and National Parks are not a panacea either because people have to live somewhere in the middle ages. More than a 1000 pounds were artificially created in the li sasha, written mainly for fish farming, which is still practiced there to day. But theres also wilderness business will be each summer bewildered us as i understand it is everywhere. It functioned, it appears very quickly as soon as we take our hands away and let nature be free. Theres a great example in these stones right here on a someone dumped them here at some point. Maybe they were meant for construction work on the pond. Theyve been lying there for several years, and you can see mos foaming everywhere. If we leave them alone, legions will grow and leaves will get glowing in hopefully small trees will take root from all the seeds that are here. And animals, light, lizards or toads, will use them as a hiding place. A mice will colonize them, and already it will have become a little wilderness which one untruths. When a crown of looseness, when cost a neat, finished school and what was lend still communist east germany. His parents wanted him to take up a proper career in lieu, sasha, that meant working in the coal industry. Niche became an electrician at the can up in hotel ignite mine despite being drawn to nature. The coal has since disappeared, as has the mind and even the state that operated it. But the nature has returned. His life has come full circle. Ya, im did you like to run up . Because as with all good women, it started when i was a child or 2 to give a phone to my bicycle around here with you. And of course there was always something to discover had known. It would always meant i became more aware through my old mentor and ornithologist in the pre cut probably cuz he worked at a factory making cobra cat soon or so. He was also involved with collins, and i thought only to go over not well photograph in his spare time, he was a bird watcher and photographer who i dont have moved at some point. When i was a child, i heard about him and saw his pictures blocked. After that, i really stopped him because i was very persistent. Eventually he took me along and we cycled to the ponds. He showed me a few things i liked the basics of identifying species and bird calls. I learned a lot from him, which dumont philosophically mila. We often speak of getting back to nature. But with part of it, in his book, coslyn writes that while he was reading about forest animals, he looked up an entry for humans. It turns out were happy to rinds. Strictly speaking, wild animals that cannot be domesticated. Today humans are the most widespread mammal on the planet. That was, once the wolf has returned to Central Europe, we await with mixed feelings. Ah, we long for seemingly untouched and wild nature. Does that stem from a longing to rediscover the nature in ourselves . These authors have tried to answer that question in their books for their own sake, and for the sake of their readers. For the cold, the home with this long lost him, while the reason why we do what we do is simply because we find these natural treasures that we have to do, even in Central Europe to valuable via to ignore the at for our stuff museum for killing cigna, hulu versus jewish marker is i dont just want to entertain people. Of course, i want to make a difference. I want to show people the beauty of nature. I made them see how important it is that we understand its buffy with us. And that its important how we behave and that we respect nature and maybe that we become a bit humbler again as we are phil ashby, that was theme. Of course, thats a big ambition. And its what i want to convey with my book. I do not read off my book transporting ah ins, cuz im sorry to say that overall, i dont think books can change anything. A book might change something in the individual in one individual reader, but even that is asking a lot, feed lou. Ah, with ah, with who are illegal fields . Illegal wells. 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