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Why Europe and America’s dying forests could be good news
Germany is losing its forests, FAST. In the central Harz region, over 90 percent of spruce trees are dead or dying because of climate change and insect damage. But this isn’t necessarily bad news. Instead of the former monoculture forest, a more resilient, wild forest is springing up, with a more abundant ecosystem.
#climatechange #barkbeetle #PlanetA
We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world - and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.
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Credits:
Reporter: Kiyo Dörrer Video Editor: Frederik Willmann Camera: Marco Borowski
Supervising Editors: Michael Trobridge, Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann Fact-Check: Alexander Paquet Thumbnail: Em Chabridon
Read more:
Background information on Harz National Park (in English):
en.harzinfo.de/pure-nature/the-forest-calls-initiative/background
www.nationalpark-harz.de/en/protecting_nature/forest_development/
Managing bark beetle outbreaks, Policy Brief by Forest Europe:
foresteurope.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Policy-brief-Managing-bark-beetle-outbreaks-in-the-21st-century.pdf
Study on Bark Beetle Outbreaks in Europe: State of Knowledge and Ways Forward for Management www.researchgate.net/publication/353546784_Bark_Beetle_Outbreaks_in_Europe_State_of_Knowledge_and_Ways_Forward_for_Management
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:38 History of the forests
1:25 Why spruces are everywhere
3:30 Enter: The bark beetle
5:19 Bark beetle central
8:31 The forestry’s approach
12:12 Conclusion
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КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @ingilizanahtar644
    @ingilizanahtar644 18 годин тому

    Boş bir hayal değil türkiye'de Toryum üzerine çalışma yapan ekibin uçağı düşürüldü. Ve hepsi o kazada öldü, pilotlar da dahil.

  • @United_estates_of_america.
    @United_estates_of_america. 18 годин тому

    ..........

  • @nandyad
    @nandyad 18 годин тому

    Being a fan of refurbished products, there is always huge gap between demand and supply in Indian e-commerce.

  • @Affeshatem
    @Affeshatem 19 годин тому

    This can be a very expensive mistake or a very good investment…

  • @allrightsreserved-toservew3611
    @allrightsreserved-toservew3611 19 годин тому

    Global war mongering as "global warming" are oerception management agendas driven by the "hidden hand" in plain sight.. As other well documented tech-agendas as geoengineering etc spreads flyash (rich in aluminium oxides et al) in idustrial scale as per "what on earth are they spraying" (aka airplain "contrails" (deceptive programming through wordchange).. The levels of aluminium oxides as heavy metals as radioactive isotops is massively building up as in obvious "industrial scale politicized warefare weather modification made straight to our faces and by golly - if you are a meterologist presenting the weather forecast on the tellie then by golly follow the script as national security trump a message of thruth.. Weather is so upside down with incredible unlikely events passed off as "natural/normal" + woo-woogglobal-waaaarming.. Yawn..

  • @ThePzrLdr
    @ThePzrLdr 20 годин тому

    An excellent reason to leave mother nature alone. It's tiring to keep seeing stories of man "knowing better". Fact is man is clueless. Nature has it's own scheme for nature.

  • @MrUnitedStates606
    @MrUnitedStates606 20 годин тому

    OIL

  • @nancyhamer949
    @nancyhamer949 20 годин тому

    Most of us will probably not live long enough to see the final results, but this seems to be the best solution so far to repair what humanity has done to the forests.

  • @Miamcoline
    @Miamcoline 21 годину тому

    Awesome report! Thanks so much!

  • @timothyvandekerckhove1972
    @timothyvandekerckhove1972 21 годину тому

    Stop the spraying.....

  • @raccoontrashpanda1467
    @raccoontrashpanda1467 21 годину тому

    A monoculture of trees is to a forest what a field of wheat is to grasslands.

  • @Bolcjek
    @Bolcjek 21 годину тому

    Germans are so scared of nuclear power, that they rather burn coal or russian natural gas. For a nation with a clean energy goal this is very weird.

  • @michelecampanelli5419
    @michelecampanelli5419 21 годину тому

    🤔😥💔

  • @mrspogadaeus
    @mrspogadaeus 22 години тому

    .

  • @susanhanstock6879
    @susanhanstock6879 22 години тому

    Nature doesn't have one type of tree. It has many.

  • @rosemarymcbride3419
    @rosemarymcbride3419 22 години тому

    maybe rich people could just make less money for a while 🙄

  • @arshiaanmol4854
    @arshiaanmol4854 22 години тому

    Sólo quería decir cuánto aprecio su dedicación para ayudar a los traders a tener éxito. Sus estrategias son algunas de las más efectivas que he visto en mi vida y su disposición a compartirlas con nosotros sin ninguna expectativa de pago es realmente inspiradora. Gracias por ser un mentor tan increíble Stuart Michael

  • @grahamcowdry6755
    @grahamcowdry6755 23 години тому

    No mention of heavy metal toxicity from geo-engineering then!

  • @GalopaWXY
    @GalopaWXY День тому

    At some point we're going to have a scientific breakthrough and figure out how to de-radioactive the waste, and then workers are going to HATE that they have to dig up the stuff from concrete and rock xD In the meantime, it is the single cleanest and most efficient energy production we have, so no, we can't just stop it all. Germany did that and now their air quality is saturated with coal and everyone over there is sick. Not to mention countries around them, thank you German ecological extremists.

  • @mrwayneright
    @mrwayneright День тому

    If the smart people would stop spraying aluminum from airplanes to block the sun, and the aluminum falls on the trees and makes them dry, then maybe this wouldn't happen as much. However converting to a permaculture project would restore the original design of natural variability. Great. But not stopping the aluminum powder spray will also make them dry, and die, and burn and people will still not understand that some man-caused climate change is from the spray.

  • @ProfLuisLeme
    @ProfLuisLeme День тому

    these beetles look a LOT like the beetles that transmitted a deadly disease to my mango tree and all mango trees in my neighborhood.

  • @United_states12696
    @United_states12696 День тому

    NOT MESS ITS TASTY

  • @epsilonxvi5675
    @epsilonxvi5675 День тому

    Turn it into an adobo and lechon

  • @Haribol-Haribol-108
    @Haribol-Haribol-108 День тому

    We indians are the most pratical people on earth just that foreign people only think screaming save earth save earth , recycle recycle will solve issues yet we need lots of lots of improvement but still we are far more practical

  • @bernardinodasilva8571
    @bernardinodasilva8571 День тому

    Not god news . This is a trap to stop us thinking . What about quimtrails and DEW ?

  • @croutiflex953
    @croutiflex953 День тому

    Mass aviation is born with the abundance of oil, and it will die with it. Soon. The energy density of batteries is an huge limit that will never be crossed. No matter how many future innovations, we will never have an energy source as dense as kerosene. Of course the agrument can be made for hybrid/smaller planes with a shorter range, but aside for remote places (but no too remote), terrestrial transports like trains will always be more efficient at carrying people and cargo over these distances. Mass aviation is done, and that's a good thing. Get over it. Most people don't get to fly in their lives anyway and they're perfectly fine.

  • @brodyspeed7141
    @brodyspeed7141 День тому

    Combustion for life

  • @Ianmundo
    @Ianmundo День тому

    You only need hydrogen where you can’t get electricity, maybe works for some shipping but never makes sense for land-based use

  • @ZemplinTemplar
    @ZemplinTemplar День тому

    Artificial, monoculture forests have always done badly, regardless of continent. Such woodlands are not actual woodlands, actual working forest ecosystems, but plantations for wood. As much as it is important to have forests that grow for economic purposes, overdoing it is not good for the landscape, resilient ecosystems or biodiversity. A spruce monoculture woodland (or rather, plantation) has biodiversity barely above the biodiversity of a huge crop monoculture field. The High Tatras used to have mixed woods of coniferous and deciduous tree species and very varied mountain environments. By the 19th century, with greater settlement under the mountains, due to the growing tourism industry, there was a tendency to replant local forests with monocultures, especially after large wind storms that occur about once a century. This led to the expansion of a spruce monoculture, since it was the most economically sought-after at the time. Happened once or twice in the 19th century, then the early 20th century, and the same thing happened again in late autumn 2004, twenty years ago. In 2004 and 2005, there was a lot of debate and arguing at the time on what to do, with various lobbyists and people with business interests in the logging industry emphasizing extraction of fallen spruces, but environmentalists, ecologists and part of the foresters instead emphasizing natural self-renewal of the forest. In the twenty years since, the latter had been proven right. Where the fallen spruce monoculture was left alone, the spruces eventually decomposed, new saplings appeared very soon and after just a few years, there was a young forest growing instead of the previous monoculture. A mixed forest reminescent of the original forests in the mountain range, before human influence in more recent centuries became more pronounced. At this point, you can't discern the parts damaged twenty years ago and the parts that replaced them via the mixed forest's self-renewal. Tellingly, not only is the biodiversity of these naturally mixed forests higher, they are also much better at accumulating and storing water, and having healthy hydrological networks. Self-renewal of locations like the Kôprová and Tichá valleys has been exemplary, and their hydrology has not deteriorated. It's actually hard to notice many of the initially damaged locations from twenty years ago, because the self-renewed forest has since grown in size and complexity up to the point that it looks like the local forest from before the wind storm. In deciduous forests, including the primeval forests of the Carpathian countries and some of the other ranges in Germany, Poland and elsewhere, there is a constant process of renewal. Dead plant matter, including naturally decaying wood, as well as herbaceous plants, and decaying animals, and a range of fungi mycelia and tree and plant roots throughout the forest, are all part of the cycle of the forest constantly dying of, growing young from the nutrients in the decayed matter, on and on. The preserved primeval forests of Europe are some of the most real, environmentally stable and water-rich environments you'll find in the entirety of Europe.

  • @carlhuchzermeyer4043
    @carlhuchzermeyer4043 День тому

    Does anyone know why the dead trees have been cut off at head-height?

  • @ashishlukka
    @ashishlukka День тому

    oops i broke it; but never mind nature will take care of it..

  • @Wigington24
    @Wigington24 День тому

    Brought to you by Bill Gates the eugenist

  • @SpandauJerry
    @SpandauJerry День тому

    For every privat forest owner it IS a desaster!

  • @towarzyszbolo3677
    @towarzyszbolo3677 День тому

    planet repairs human idiocy

  • @sushmajoshi8666
    @sushmajoshi8666 День тому

    Thank the beetle: "I will not take any nonsense from you humans. Rewild now with native species and stop monoculturing."

  • @konliner9286
    @konliner9286 День тому

    I searched "Buying new car" on UA-cam and most of the results are about people buying an SUV.

  • @jenniferh7020
    @jenniferh7020 День тому

    Oi, who did the sound editing for this video? That person needs a supervisor or more training.

  • @antonio_fosnjar
    @antonio_fosnjar День тому

    Only thing hydrogen is good for now is planes and huge ships. Cars, busses and energy storage tests have already proven that hydrogen is a lot worse option than just plain batteries. I don't really see any future for hydrogen outside of sea and air shipping, even then hybrid battery and hydrogen tech could be even better than plain hydrogen propulsion. Hydrogen logistics is amazingly hard and expensive, even NASA had big problems with leaks while fueling their rocket, and that was 1000x smaller scale than this is proposing.

  • @ObjectiveAnalysis
    @ObjectiveAnalysis День тому

    Haha the capitalists/imperialists trying to spin biodiversity loss as a positive. I’ve heard it all now 😂

  • @disillusionedanglophile7680
    @disillusionedanglophile7680 День тому

    Planting exotic trees is a mistake. we should stick to indigenous as much as possible. Indigenous growth consumes less water and burns less ferociously

  • @bealtainecottage
    @bealtainecottage День тому

    Do not refer to it as a forest for it is not! It is a plantation, a monoculture for harvest.

  •  День тому

    The head of the Hartz Mountains national park is actually pretty funny, in the dry North German way. He called not wanting to wait a few thousand years 'impatient'.

  • @anuragsinha2013
    @anuragsinha2013 День тому

    That's a nice spin.

  • @edwardmclaughlin7935
    @edwardmclaughlin7935 День тому

    The planet is fine. The trees are fine. Humans listen to liars too much.

    • @myboysd5772
      @myboysd5772 День тому

      Man, scientists have agreed for decades that the planet will not be fine if we continue down this path.

    • @edwardmclaughlin7935
      @edwardmclaughlin7935 20 годин тому

      @@myboysd5772 That's what you've been told is it?

    • @myboysd5772
      @myboysd5772 19 годин тому

      @@edwardmclaughlin7935 ye

  • @highjenks3d
    @highjenks3d День тому

    Why dont all trees have food on them

  • @lupolinar
    @lupolinar День тому

    These were plantations, not forests. Even in the 90's it was already talked about, how it may cause trouble in the future.

  • @zachk2060
    @zachk2060 День тому

    "Miracle" *checks under hood* Socialism

  • @foolwise4703
    @foolwise4703 День тому

    You are not discussing the key selling point though: We can store the stuff for a long winter and make it from excess electricity.

  • @walterdanielswalter.r.dani7628

    Why not reforest with mixed native species rather than non-native?

  • @GiveMeCoffee
    @GiveMeCoffee День тому

    Sad when you learn all that nuclear waste could be used as fuel for more advanced energy production, but we are too scared to repurpose it and instead decide to bury it wasting so much resources in the process...