more and more trees. environmentalists and the sammy are teaming up to fight back. it's a song but they're succeeding. tussa. next on d w. these places in europe or smashing all the records. step into a bold adventure. it's the treasure map for modern globetrotters. discover some of europe's record breaking sites on you. you too. and now also in book form. mm hm. it's the end of may any naughty and the ice hasn't quite disappeared. the average annual temperature here isn't much above freezing point in europe's far north primeval forests still exist. the trees are small, gnarled,

and supple. petri matos is on his way through this old growth forest. if it weren't for him, these trees would have been cleared many years ago. lumber companies had their eye on them back before the 1st big protest action. any naughty. this is what a healthy forest here looks like. with reindeer calves roaming about reindeer mothers spend their last 2 weeks and enclosed areas before giving birth. or preferably just for in the yesterday evening i, you're margaret felt like there is one upgrade. so i got those and but my air mark and then i opened that scared than they go back to the freedom ah, ah petri matters likes that. his animals have an appetite for freedom.

they develop better and don't cost him much and he's grateful to the forest that sustains his animals. ah, hell oh, he lou ha who yara? hello, lynn hoof to ski. i thought rock oh, hello, lee to us. oh, this is about 12 hours ago. so not very often, every family of reindeer herders has its own distinctive ear marker. the procedure doesn't appear entirely painless that the

mom is going over there. it's recognized the old baby song. and it made him when you're living, does everything i say, but they recognize or maybe along and i feel 3 days, not coming. lot anger. wow. all in somebody may believe it if they're done during like this it. so you didn't think it hurts them very much. no, no, i don't think so because it's not like a lady is they put the earring thing ethan? oh oh oh. oh. old growth forests or woodlands that have not been significantly disturbed by human activity. and these could be left untouched. after all, there is enough timber elsewhere in northern europe. the liken hanging on the

branches, serves a special function. what's felt here takes a very long time to grow back. matthew see old pri, this is a big for 500 years old. thirty's black. like another trees. what raid the again eat in the winder. it's not the only bit 3 because there's when they, when the are a lot of snow on the trees. as you see the slack flies and also on the land. and it's coming up of the snow and rain. you can eat this if there's a lot of snow and a small is hard. without this forest, the reindeer would struggle to get through the winter. luckily, the herders have received international help. korean be come here and help us and they told the biggest company who by the finish paper and the sammy b brown, sam arranged to her to have a problem this forest cutting because it's our for our c, sorry,

important in finland, authorities were ignoring petrie mottos and his fellow herders. then greenpeace raised the possibility of a boycott. that was back in 2003. a large cargo ship had been docking each week in the northern german city of lou. back with timber from finland's vast forests. it's cargo turned out to have come from some of europe's last remaining primeval forests . the supply chain could be traced back to inquiry. this timber was destined to be turned into toilet paper, or glossy magazines and germany. in inquiry, a small delegation of traditional reindeer herders was waiting to show evidence of fresh felling. they didn't need to go far. this tree was a few 100 years old as far as ot yes, who could tell from the rings without using a magnifying glass. that's how close the rings were together about him or some of

it will be it. but among cox, if the will think of them a box the nils note the state forestry authority has promised to protect certain areas hollywood. but they are felling trees elsewhere. as a result, the forest is disappearing in the blue mud. the indigenous sammy are known to be rather reserved and not just in front of the camera, but this was the last straw. at 5 on friday, the sounds of logging no longer rang out in the ancient forest. getting hold of footage of loggers at work wasn't easy.

this is a duty yes. school 20 years later in the same forest that was due to be cut down. for many years now, she's been teaching young people how to look after reindeer, and she has 6 grand children of her own. the forest as he was inherited from our ancestors it is it's our in heavy class, even if the landy zone quite as big. and he yoga iraq. well it's ho oh on sale. oh so oh, for money it as she talks, she slips into her role as grandmother. i was going to say that one thing i would be doing in the 4th likely without something work to do would be

to play with my grandchildren. so how look, there's a whole in that 3. there must be a burden it to them and look how big the death that 3 can you read your hands, rowdy, the one who leave that hold on to that 3 for the saw me. the forest is a door to the natural world and to look back into their past. you know, it was for your grand grand grandfather who cut these 3 in this archival footage, clevi powder shoes. the way to a spot where the 1st snow had covered the signs of fresh felling. 10 years earlier,

the state own forestry company had cut down a few trees here, but left many standing. there were all we'll hook up. we are, they didn't even tell us beforehand. they just sent in a forest harvester. go get all the remains will be cleared with fire listed and run a good. there won't be anything left off or reindeer here for dozens of years. the winter and law plant or sopped me, as it's called by the indigenous sammy, people starts at the end of september. that's when things start to get tough for the reindeer that roam free. here, finding food is a struggle 20 years later, there's been no further logging here, and the european union is keeping a watchful eye that it stays that way. for sammy reindeer herder, clevi potter that remains a triumph, but not one that he boasts about. this ami often faced defeat in their conflicts

with the authorities back then. their cause was helped by the fact that major german publishers began refusing to buy timber from the ancient forests. here when cal evie pod our walks through the forest, he doesn't just see the trees. he always has his reindeer and there needs in mind spotting things many others might miss was the lucas with this small liken grows on birches that vital when there's nothing else to put that early and it takes time for new like in to grow back longer than a human life span, he says, more like a century. i go to yoga, fucked in back. then they stopped clear cutting. and we didn't let up. how could go

there were more campaigns here been the room with and that's why it's been quiet here for years. up with the you can see it. we don't need to keep our animals and enclosures any more. they can roam freely through the woods and that is, but even in winter, ah, and then he looks out over the land. he knows that a big mining company wants to look for or here. as soon as one threat is averted, the next appears on the horizon. but he refuses to give up. our journey continues in northern europe. from in ari in finland, we will head to the forests just across the border from won't oh. and then on to ag youdie in swedish lapland, our journey will end in norway in count. okay, know ah,

at 1st glance sweden looks like one big forest. no other european country has so many trees. they cover close to 3 quarters of its land mass. but the gaps become more visible, the further north you go. in many places, it looks more like a lunar landscape, such as here close to warn you on the border between sweden and finland, nearly 200 kilometers above the arctic circle. environmental activist, kara lina, cows on blame, swedish timber companies, greenpeace put signs up that read, do not cut. and then on, wanna get info. so see, and when you drive around here, you see one clear cut area after another school go and ask for what they've replanted. their ad, it bears no comparison bad of mafia about him on all the trees are the same age and are planted in long rows. this is

a very aggressive type of forestry management. these are tree plantations. not forests got dropped off. we can see what the environmental activist is talking about. 40 kilometers further south. in other countries, individual trees tend to be selected for felling in sweden. it's more industrial how cutting is a very rigid system? everything, and i mean everything is leveled and removed as 30 to 40 years later, they thin out what they find dead lemon. this works in opposition to nature rather than in harmony with it. a single forestry worker and a harvester can clear as much forest as 2 dozen lavarez could in the past. the machines enormous tires leave behind packed soil and deep ruts in the ground. it's no surprise that it takes many years for anything to grow back

here too. there were plans to clear huge areas of forest belonging to sweden state own forest re company may ask oak. but as in in ari reindeer, herders and environmental activists joint forces to stop it from going ahead with patrols and months long demonstrations. the company with its upscale headquarters in downtown stockholm ultimately gave in to the pressure. and the man at the helm bowed out. we meet the new c, e o eric brand smile in our interview. he accepts that mistakes were made. we previously haven't managed that conflicts and in an optimal way. and there are have been situations where we have not advanced the possibilities for that, for, for to render hers to true practice their profession back to the forests, owned by city escal,

4000 reindeer rome in the munoz. sammy hurting district on the border with finland in summer. there's enough food for them. and in the autumn, the semi wild animals like to eat mushrooms. we meet huns houma, the chairman of the local reindeer heard in co, operative does he believe the forestry companies new promises? at the moment? he says no logging is taking place and he hopes it will stay that way. it's high time. he adds thought more than one hope, but often in may. of course we hope that things will improve clermont, but that there will be a new course. when i go up, eric ron's, mom has come to see us up here. new new not to be honest. it's 30 years too late, and the chances i'm a bailey, that most of the old growth forests have disappeared. they mark can i stay, you've got winter in lapland is a tough time. and the changing climate and erotic weather patterns are making

conditions even tougher. hunts homa has prepared as best he can. he regularly gives his herds supplementary. food. liking contains carbohydrates, in march, and april, that's off and all the animals have to eat in the wild. we sort of have a decrease to volumes that we take out if we want to have like consume place if we want to create course create shelter and protection for the reindeer all joined all year. this has of course, i mean at least for now there's piece, the do not cut signs are being taken down. oh, that's one of the ones of them. we've saved about $150.00 trees or so in 13 forest areas that a lot of these are trees that space cook was going to cut down last rows of all we'll the trees now have to do without your protection.

yes, so now it's up to say as coke or collies from greenpeace, i seem to sort of have enough trust at the moment that they left the area and focus on other issues. and i think that's a good time spent that you name somewhere else. the swedish forestry company is also taking concrete steps. 3, our school has announced a 20 percent cut in future annual felling. oh, lake ag yodi is in a forest near i appealed in swedish lapland. the lou uptown, my vice reindeer cooperative, takes its animals here to grazing winter. see us go was going to log here too, but so far hasn't reindeer herders bri testing us. jagow leads us into her forest, but it's not actually hers. it's owned by others who can do pretty much what they

want. he said, yes, a full my you're all inside and you can cut down everything except to what's around the stone age encampments of our ancestors that dan, but almost you are asked on the forest harvest is aunt allowed to directly encroach on them. that book left them men of all that god to add them to the beginning. since time immemorial, the forests around ag youdie have served as winter pasture for the reindeer. archaeologists can confirm that dorm i and then this was probably the size of a fire pit. and a traditional saw me tent dakota when the must board and the soup teela the traces we've left behind our subtle walk. omaha today with a trained eye. all you can see is the stone read a school goofy exam for the forestry industry has changed all that within just one

generation ended alon, scott, the intervention has changed the entire landscape. the trees have been felled and everything's turned upside down. a forest that has grown over 1000 years just disappears. all bus been the mother of the longer you spend with the sammy, the more you come to see the world and the forest through their eyes. at 1st glance, this lodgepole pine plantation is just a dry canaveral forest that has been very densely planted. but for burritos steepness jagow, it's deeply troubling that the hot a there vash doesn't. this is the worst kind of tree when it comes to reindeer heard ada mccintock on. paul, it's an invasive species from north america. it's been widely planted here on i went to pass jazz or so mar plenty, se valley stores. these trees have lots of needles like which thickly carpeted forest william being that after jonathan thought, possibly it's an alien body or for it, it acts like

a barrier through lataria. so the reindeer avoid these plantation either. my plant often rascal has now stopped planting pine as contort her. it's latin name. while it grows 40 percent faster than other pine species. it's a lot more vulnerable to high winds and thought it also blocks out a lot of light. you can see how it stuns other forest growth just by looking at this little tree. yeah. can she sexually or it's 26th or 20? 7 years old and it got to me, but it still says small because the contorted pine has taken away. its light went off. alanna it brita steen us jago could wish for any house? perhaps it would be this one here with its panoramic views, but it has a drawback. the entire land around the house belongs to the state. and fiasco is responsible for managing this land. there may be a truce for now,

but if you tend to think in centuries like this, army, people, just the thought of clear cutting is hard to bear. and how long will the peace last may be swear? scope hasn't changed. it's ways that much got on road at the ag outlook. the hash and model that is ag, out at the lake, has gorgon to home school of our customers. we escal resize, co claims to log the whole area around the lake. things so rarely get ruined for her value. seth, an old saw me woman used to live here, avoid that if you got to and she was almost 90 and she sold her house because she couldn't cope with clearing the snow on the the ordering dorcas scott was no longer there. often a german i t expert bought it till and he lives here full part of the year. some board i knew dealer laura, i told him last year. what might happen if you will that say as you could clear cut the land rice around the house since it didn't get he was very disappointed and outraging. oh, humbly subject. yet the lesson yet to receive him right now,

it's still possible to walk through the woodland to get to the water. and what would a lunch break in the forest beat without a camp fire? started with the help of birch bark and it has the advantage of burning when it's damp it falls. do you think that? and then there's spring water cache drunk out of a cup. i made from the thicker part of a tree where there was a not hole and a battered coffee pot that has obviously seen many a camp fire. the hot over or this on the at a new way and an old pine forest that isn't too dense. palms school get some that if in school there's like can on the forest floor and hanging from the trees for novice mangin, it's rad them the sammy would like to see this kind of forest everywhere, but for decades. so he has coke has been felling all trees that reach a certain age. what's left is

a patchwork of primeval forest. nest on alt will gated on all by god, only 15 percent as left of the entire old forest home of his far some in that home . the rest has been cut down all back on the wall. they owe you at them hide what's left, our little islands, lease oases that aren't connected. yeah. the landscape but on and these small areas of ancient forest are of course, especially precious to with it the other domes, more or more than i at the moment there aren't any animals grazing in the lakeside forest. they're still in the highlands. the swedish, yet the reindeer eat with they can find their grasses, bushes, mushrooms in late spring. but he, justine, us, ja goes reindeer, intuitively find their way to the higher ground and back to the valley where they were born. in late autumn, their sense of orientation takes them back to their winter grazing pastors to ega

youdie. it would be ideal if the animals could actually find food here. and the co operative didn't have to buy commercial fodder to get them through the winter. but there's just not enough in these desolate woods after hearing all that, you might think that's fair school c, e o. eric brown's mom would be well advised to come here to. she really wants to restore faith in his company. we're headed now to cow to k no one day. it could look like this across lapland. if the forest can no longer provide enough food due to unpredictable weather patterns and invasive species,

these are scenes from norway and the ancestral home of the indigenous sammy, people. reindeer actually don't like getting too close to humans. especially pregnant animals. ah, we've reached northern norway. reindeer have been living here from time immemorial, more or less independently. doing so. but now more and more of them need to be fed with the old old people say the reindeers. i'd wanna read me. i'm not going to pay the rent yet, but now it's the opposite. now we have to feed the radio. well, there's

a frenzy when father and daughter opened the sacks of food. the father is made from local grass and compressed in the factory. ah, this is the result of climate change. with already here you can see the fates that might be awaiting other regions. the arctic is warming 4 times faster than the rest of the world. because you can see the range behind here. 90 percent of those are pregnant female in spring may maybe get one called peach if we are lucky. mm. meanwhile,

word has gotten out about the free lunch. arranging from a neighboring cooperative has snuck in. ah, property is sacred here. giving back a stray animal is a matter of honor. the reindeer gets tied up like a parcel for the journey back to its own heard. then the reindeer herder explains how you would look at the reindeers right here. yeah. well, had it has a different pattern than our reindeer, but it was on the to the mud so that, that ah,

if the old growth forests could be saved, then these reindeer would have a chance of continued freedom and of surviving in the wilderness. surely it's worth a try. almost to add more thought the entire forest gone his answer. so cut down against our will these, what are you at all? it feels unjust or so sad. scott: easier than them. and what will become of the wood off the percent? 80 percent of it will be used up very quickly and most of it will be turned into paper in the blue book better. mm. oh. oh

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