a forest that's happened to baz links, isn't wolves today, you realize that you're not at the top of the food chain posted in an estimate. the 1st few nights i was often a bit scared here on the edge of boris. i saw 2 eyes glowing in a hollow. i couldn't explain them. ah, who's ah, when the corona varies, pandemic broke out. right to lena's iceland with desperate to get away out of berlin. he fled to the countryside. ah, then living in solitude, he had a surprising realization. he shot the canal. no for not to wood. i had no clue about nature lying over issues. you couldn't say i liked nature, he had it, but i didn't know the animals. for example, how does this and i didn't know the bird station. i'll that i could see that it was a bird only had that, but that was really, it was us with maybe i could identify a great hit or something and i and i had no idea what kind of animals they're worth . 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 because started getting interested in them. versus what kind of bird is that it's a mention. is that male or female? this emma to i keep seeing the same one seat or are there are several that looked the same like house and i actually started to get interested in what was in front of me with da street as nature even though while the not too high. flynn skilled friend has a small cabin in the woods beyond o'hana and brook 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 . in the i'm out the window 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 don't know icelanders barely. the bull finch is, are sedate and quiet. they look around the, they don't move that much. and i wonder if the not hatches are constantly excited. that the sis as soon, that's how it is augustine, dean, their individuals noticing, but it's like they also have different cultures or mentality, pseudo mentality. ah, the experience inspired lenise high. flynn spoke. i'm stuck mench. invite a city dweller in the forest. iceland uses the pseudonym h d. weldon, a reference to the seminal work by mary can rice, a henry david thorough the writer finds himself in a parallel universe. his previously only heard about nature. he's shocked under shame 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 realised that humans are not alone. there is a whole world out there. ah, ah! in an estimation cookie all the 1st few nights i was often a bit scared by leon valdez. here on the edge of the forest, i saw 2 eyes glowing in a hollow church. i couldn't explain them. see men, she looked too low down to be human, have often, but kind of too high for an animal. we're done on off to go. then there were the sounds alive yet, which seem much louder when you're here all alone fee loud, much louder than they really are. yeah, it's, it's in i'm so i was a little bit scared to cut this from dr. essex. miss long's 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 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 mean scape of barren aff, uncontaminated water. but now it's the size of a large scale environmental experiment. and life has returned unexpectedly quickly into santa susanna. see, it's interesting to see that they crossing the trail of them here in the walls. territory the day have to be more on their god. on the cement the wolves are they, predators, and predators themselves often light to move a long trial. that's why this is a great example of it. why would a wolf walk beside the trail where it's hot on what i did on the trail? everything is firm. it's feet don't sink in so much. so the animal uses less energy . oh, where is pray? animals will often just cross the trail that i'd like to move along them. what's monique's will gamble of anglo ah launch parts of this region are they were critically referred to as post mining landscape. it's 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 they are 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 i'm plot sometime with the wolf has just as much right to a place in nature as any other creature people. we can't 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. that's the wrong way to look at it. it just doesn't 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 slack heaps. authorities tried doing something new, nothing. the maltreated earth was simply left alone. it wasn't a miracle that brought nature back to the region that 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 to the sofa, which puts us as wish. but now it was a process for me and angling, i'm from this region, my roots go back to the sold ethnic group. i've watched the villages die out and that's what affected me the most at the beginning. it was terrible the way this landfill vacant down to the excavators went, wouldn't 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 i'm on charleston margie's lunch after not come on on the hottest as somebody who's a highly 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 in the fema today. so we'll go by and come in many places the 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 europe's national parks and protected areas. for them. wilderness isn't only untouched nature, but also respected nature. they're observing the reintroduction and natural return of predators to european forests. today they've come to southern sabina to photograph one of them. the brown bear. again, i'll go and pretend to be the bat and bear with me. you're not in frame. yeah. call nathan avenue. this is silvia been off the roxanne is included little clearfield. i grew up with the animal stories and films from the serengeti, from africa and north america owners. and we'll try it really is a shame from the point of view of a nature filmmaker not to be able or allowed to tell the stories of central europe's 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 shouldn't forget that there's also a wildlife behind a house on the outskirts of berlin from hor, in the alps in south to roll, and those stories can and should and must be told younger sister absolutely will self install zone villa and cough 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 like scar d, the links who was picked up by a camera trap in the snow of austria's limestone alps. the female links is now the cover girl of a book whose title translates as the while toss of europe in it, photographers, and oath as christine is on villa and mock. cough go in search of central europe's 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 we're 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 while forest without lodge predators like the wolf on the bed and the lynx fill somehow empty, that's what we've learned and risen. isn't that hungry and as beautiful as nature can be? it seems incomplete. without lodge predators, unfortunately, we know this because we've gotten to know the parts of central europe that are to exaggerate a bit full of bears. like southern st. lavinia are full of wolves, like lou sasha, in germany, or lynx, is like in our homeland austria or dr. luke's in on time, on a nurse or is this lisa? it's hard to describe since if, if you walk through a forest at home to bez links isn't wolves, and it heightens your senses. and maybe you realize that you're not at the top of the food chain. oh though, actually in the case of the bear, it's not really true because the european brown bears here a mainly her before was helpful council for so they're really not out to proud humans because in many still believe that when you walk through a forest there a wild animals everywhere, ready to jump out from behind the next tree to kill you. well, and that's not true. i had these animals are always careful to stay away from humans. that includes the big predators and even europe's largest predators, the brown back. think for mental counsel height for a long time, the largest predator in la sasha was coal mining in his book cast and 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 couldn't imagine life ever returning to these barren landscapes of mining waste. but nature found a way we do not was issued thus widows wicker overdoses, vent 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 it's landscapes are constantly changing. we're come, i compare it to a volcanic eruption fund, but when the volcanoes dormant the slopes are full of growth and people might even settle their work, then there's a major eruption and everything is gone. again. i feel that the landscape looks as hostile as another planets all, but it won't be long until the landscape comes back to life. that's what's happening here too. i'm 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 it's not quite that simple. this animal haven is still dangerous for humans. 60 percent of the mining lands are now forested, but much of the land is inaccessible. it's too dangerous and unpredictable. ah, it will continue to shift for centuries, and large areas could slide away. it won't stay as it is now. after all, landscapes are always dynamic when viewed over large periods of time, muslim to listen, but one going to so 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 to what it would turn into a bog, and that bug would eventually so top, and one day they'd be as far as too much of course that takes a very, very long time. but it's one thing that we have to decide what we do, we permit that process is. do we allow nature and landscape to keep changing or good? or do we want to maintain its condition in order to keep certain species in these areas? hutton 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 sing a research and german wilderness would be a huge success and ecological terms. but is it actually necessary of good chronic the home of the of it with paulson? well, it's not about whether we need the wilderness. i mentioned that's thinking about it from a human perspective of what we needed for. we can also ask, what does the wilderness need us for them? but because we're part of nature, we can see that the question doesn't make sense that it's obvious that something like wilderness has to exist and it will definitely do us good. but above all, we have a responsibility now because we've developed to such an extent and we've been constantly trying to destroy this system, which works very well on its and which has evolved over millions of years or so if the justification is always that 1st we need to think about jobs or this and that, and eventually we'll get down the list of priorities. but at some point it will be too late for. and then nature may very well show us our limits under, at some point that's going to happen with 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. they numbers are growing. the best could spread out into neighboring countries, but roads and densely populated alpine valleys block their way. what's missing is the willingness among humans to make migrations possible and push look fresh tracks, community thinking oh orca. so you can see there were drinking and i think i'll be definitely a bare as mute ish. voluntary also has the really exciting and reassuring thing is that nature is coming back by itself. one example is the, was in germany, lungs and another is the bears in southern sylvania, you know, they're returning without human interventions. right now. it's just a matter of finding a way to exist together and demand somebody else. colinza is keep going. it's conceptual. when there are already ideas that links the economy and nature conservation and it, and they're working with being homeless, capped off by a classic example, is a soft tourism or eco tourism, which aims to make nature accessible to people with active bisman. this works especially well in less economically developed regions where there's no large industry warning. bon scott walls clinical will signal 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 imagine a europe of protected zones interconnected by green bridges that allow large predators to migrate. the 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 hope on at sea are feeling the weakness. we don't 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. it's always cumbersome, or the path is always arduous or impossible. the steep, rocky, or blocked by a fallen tree. all the paths are flooded and the me, that's the real core of what wilderness is, the uncertainty that needs you can bring up the whooping 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 walls and an ride about 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 that's 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 hoopa, serafina israel anson defendants, europe has many opportunities to become wilder. again, that was even a relatively young conservation movement with the english name re wilding. the idea is to give momentum to certain landscapes that have the potential to become wilder . again, we're still to help the process along trusting the sources on that. for example, by leaving dead wood where it is in the forest. when we're allowing rivers to meander more freely again, it does when receive it. it's a way of withdrawing again as humans and allowing nature to follow its original impulses knocked, isn't it? yes, in person, the idea is spreading more and more in europe, monia, in our hope, hostile pride. nature doesn't 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 today. but there's also wilderness business or the week, the mercury wilderness, as i understand it, is everywhere it function, it appears very quickly as soon as we take our hands away and let nature be free, there's a great example in these stones right here. plenty of someone dumped them here at some point. maybe they were meant for construction work on the pond. they've been lying there for several years. and you can see moss forming everywhere. if we leave them alone, legends will grow, but leaves will get blown in. i'll put 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 wilderness, 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 new sasha. that meant working in the coal industry. niche became an electrician at the club and hold a lick night 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. yar unless you like to run up, because as with all the good women it started when i was a child of a phone, took 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, nobly cut far bleaker. he worked at a factory making cobra cat sooner. so he was also involved with collins and i thought only to login or to a photograph in his spare time. he was a bird watcher and photographer who would 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 we 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 we're happy earrings. strictly speaking, wild animals that cannot be domesticated to day humans are the most widespread mammal on the planet. that was once the wolf, his return 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. the cold of a home at this mom was him while the reason why we do what we do is simply because we find these natural treasures that we have to have even in central europe to valuable via to ignore the at for our stuff is. yeah. unfortunately, not blue versus jewish marker is i don't just want to entertain people to 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 it with us for, and that it's important how we behave properly and that we respect nature and maybe that we become a bit humbler again. that's weird. phil ashby, that was the him. of course, that's a big ambition, and it's what i want to convey with my book. i do not read ahmed my book transportation ah ins, cuz i'm, i'm sorry to say that overall i don't 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 ah, it's one of the most polluted waterways in the world. the term river and indonesia, the river's waters are contaminated by pesticides and industrial waste, which has devastating consequences with environmental activists are fighting for that. she doesn't stand a chance in 15 minutes. d, w, you go africa. there are pros and cons to efficient transportation project. the new standard gauge railway engine. yeah. a problem for motorists a threat to endangered wildlife. how a low emission tree line is creating a bad atmosphere. eco africa. 900 dw. ah. every journey begins with the 1st step and every language with the 1st word. hello, pinnacle. rico is in germany to learn german why not learn with simple online on your mobile and free to shop. t w's, e learning course nikos vague german made easy. our interest, the global economy, our portfolio, d w. business beyond. here's a closer look project. our mission ah, to analyze the fight for market dominance, east versus west. get a step ahead with the w business beyond on you to sometimes a seed is all you need to allow big ideas to grow. we're bringing environmental conservation to life with learning packs like global ideas. we will show you how climate change and environmental conservation is taking shape around the world and how we can all make a difference. knowledge grows through sharing. download it now for free with. ah ah, this is the w is leih from berlin that shoot to kill orders in kazakhstan as the president describes protesters as bandits and says he will eliminate the cassim jermarta tokai of incest to stay.

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