in spanish capital madrid stood in line all night for the chance to be part of the television audience and watch. it every. day watching live from berlin coming up reports the looks of the legs some families will go in their quest for the perfect christmas tree i'm on your trip as mccann and my colleague helen humphrey will be here with more news for you at the top of the hour thanks so much for watching. earth. or saving. those tell stories of creative people and innovative projects around the world ideas to protect the climate and boost green energy solutions by global oil gets beaten by a series of global 3000 on d.w. and online.

christmas cards. for most germans christmas just wouldn't be christmas without a tree whether the. country's one ready concert is a must treat farmers are happy either way there's just one thing they construct to sell but artificial trees are disastrous for. $140.00 hectares of forest

in the zala around $200.00 football fields full of christmas trees so finding just the right one is a big challenge for the sham family. but the song. the one that's about time we were back there i think you know there's no matter where there are tons of trees. cloudier and all of a sham are searching for a tree with her sons phil and tonics and let's work. others have already found battery. i'm so looking for something smaller while the boys are more concerned with who gets to carry the song their mom talia tells us what she looks for in a tree. it can be a little crooked when it doesn't have to be perfectly straight and i like it when it's quite broad at the bottom and you can hang a lot of decorations on it much. better

a wider tree than i told narrow one i. thought we must be able to transport it to be taken out one don't have to put it on top of the car because we won't get it inside ok we can make 2 trees out of it. which are about one and a half the letters right yeah i can imagine chris. what that after i thought i was going to say when i was a child we always had a tree and i couldn't imagine it any other way without a tree it just wouldn't be christmas for me that's what's most important for me having a tree with just me he's. got a nice tree. that's just the right size you can stand beside it then will know roughly yeah i'm a bit over one half metres. this is nothing. nice for families who take their

time looking for a tree here lumberjacks cut down trees oh mass in a matter of seconds since the start of november they've been hard at work here and have felled tens of thousands of trees. the owner vilhelm back a good isn't willing to reveal exactly how many. can you stand to look at a christmas tree at home. and get yeah a christmas that's ok again after unwind a bit 1st with somebody that was there what. he receives orders from all over europe the market for christmas trees is relatively stable and so are the prices people always want to treat to put the presents under. which one is best which would you tell he was. very says the best it's hard to say which is best. it depends on the size but this one is good but not too wide it's dense right to the

top and looks very nice which is the goal we set for ourselves if we're going to have as many talk all the trees like this as possible. thinking. so many in fact that his family can live from ground christmas trees all year round the trees create for the entire region including full fleet of a phone camera and his team you can find fleet of a human forest all year round he says that he loves trees but even he can only see so many of them. friendly then you can look at a christmas tree and i don't know what i want one after christmas if you're ahead of the many as i do. and i'm going to get back to act like i have 2 little kids and they won't want to know mark that so i do for them not for me by christmas i've had enough to trace. the bit about that and therefore it's nice which one there. were no one on which was $100.00 front underneath and not if it is missing

a lot of needles on the right so right you can put it against the wall not you know we can go over there i'm glad to hear it was great the sham family are still searching for that tree. kind of treat you like. we're not really sure what should. i want to talk not too small just write for a living room are very good to humans and once in my back. and watch if i want it. first mr tree ornaments strings of lights and lots of other decorations. you probably should look for a deal like this one here for your. tree off the tree is being found all around them the family has split up. up in their search for the perfect tree but now they have lost down. its drinking my wine i hope not though he's been gone so long you might think so he's getting gloves he's found the perfect tree or that but i've got

the start. drinking mulled wine spiced red wine is another german christmas tradition apart from trees the back of good as farm offers all manner of things for the festive season you know you can last after people have found their tree they take it home to decorate it and that's your tobacco gooders speciality. is that not we had that in 2 sizes but i'm not sure. we're yet to now that's the smaller one. so how does your daughter decorate her tree. this meeting which classic christmas tree balls and then with things the children made themselves in that ornaments they made in nursery school when they were small lots of different things. what about that one. must if you haven't even looked at it come on let's try to get in there. cloudier sham has

found the perfect tree. is a bit larger than the one metre $51.00 metre 60 we thought of but you could start off a bit at the top knot of there you can't cut the top off. the rest of us can you say you know what i like about it is you start to talk is that big chris good i'm a cookie dough knocks the children can't wait to open their presents under it. all the living room is almost always dark in that one so much but it's still great because of all the lights and decorations on the christmas tree and just look on the right now well and i. really love meanwhile vilhelm back a good talks to marco's tot mom who's come to the farm to pick up a load of trees that are destined to make many families christmas merrier. but does marco put up a tree himself grumbled we don't have

a tree what nonsense that you don't have to take part in every silly thing someone's come up with. says they drive a christmas tree. we don't only transport christmas trees most of our business is construction materials. if you like i said the tradition dates back from the 18th century but you don't have to follow it. this was not the easiest didn't have a christmas tree. and i know he didn't wanted one. luckily vilhelm back it had a missed that little exchange he's too busy loading trees on to trucks like he's been doing since 6 o'clock this morning the last truck should arrive sometime this evening. this note is headed for the baltic sea coast. treaties from the zoll and end up all over

germany and even in some neighboring countries. as here is 1100 trees and because there are a lot of smaller ones you can see that there are sometimes 120 trees on a scale other times just 50 or. one for you one for the customer who go on until i don't know the day after. this. we found something no really good 3 people say yeah we just need your blessing in which 100 show you did the tree. you know i thought. there that one it's nice. it's a bit over one and a half metres but we could cut it down a little. doable right. for

a start cutting holes. and. i'm enjoying not cutting that's a man's job but 3 men might me it's a lot that's old fashioned when it comes to that i'm old fashioned. speaking about motive traditions in this era of climate change is it still acceptable to cut down a tree just to decorate your living room for a few days. i might well be on here that's ok look at it the other way around and if there were no demand those trees wouldn't exist not so you can do this once a year with their conscience i mean. some even argue that christmas trees actually benefit the climate and future generations that's because during their lifetime the

trees capture lots of c o 2 and produce oxygen. when they're around 12 years old they're ready to become christmas trees. elf motion is all but the too simple it's of him he'd rather keep selling it by hand that's ok we have time. now though choosing a tree isn't such a pleasant experience for every family there monkey man comes alone and says and him about my wife said and then it's the woman's fault. then i say i mean next time bring your wife with you and then there's trouble. right away sometimes they need to think it over and come back. as my wife's it's happened. whole. their life rather take another one but she's just joking the shams have their trade it's a north man family which has soft needles that prickly it's the most popular kind

of christmas tree in europe. that's before i may go 1st. now it just has to be wrapped and paid for this year bias can expect to shine out 16 euros per meter for the entry. of those who. make up their most perfect thanks. so we decided it's the wrong one we'll take another one for the function name i'm a bit odd a little strange you have to go back again to change possible that i've always had your trees been shot down but if you did i gladly exchange it for this family but normally the rule is you buy it off the ball or you don't overtalk are there. and by the age of now they just need to wait for santa to put some presents harm to the tree.

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