© Philipp Spalek/laif
Current numbers warn: Germany's green lungs are sick. The forest can be saved - but that takes time and will change it fundamentally.
Under the protection of old trees, a young fir tree boldly stretches up. No frost caught them, the climate on the ground is evenly cool and sheltered from the wind. As a young tree, it benefits from the shady screen above it as well as from the microorganisms in the root network of the adult trees. It's a nursing effect that the baby Douglas fir a few steps further takes advantage of. Her tiny branches protrude from light green moss,…
