Wild Germany Season 1 Episode 3 The Black Forest 2011
The Black Forest is known worldwide for its cuckoo clocks and Black Forest cake. But the region has much more to offer: in the mountain forests there is silver fir, up to 60 meters high - a European record. One last impressive giant tree in the northern Black Forest is the 230-year-old, so-called grandfather fir, which towers over all the treetops in the area with a trunk circumference of 1.65 meters and a height of 45 meters. The capercaillie lives hidden in sparse old growth. The extremely shy birds are threatened with extinction due to the destruction of their habitat, climate change and growing tourism. A few lynxes and wildcats from the neighboring Vosges and Swiss Alps have recently been sneaking through the Black Forest again. Eradicated here in the last century, the two cat species return to their ancestral habitat almost unnoticed. There are also alpine animals and plants in the Black Forest that survived the Ice Age at rough altitudes for thousands of years.
- Released: 2011-04-20
- Runtime: 45 minutes
- Genre: Documentary
- Stars:
- Director: Henry M. Mix, Kolja Erdmann, Yann Sochaczewski, Henry M. Mix, Axel Gebauer
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1. The Spree Forest 2011-04-18
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2. North Friesland 2011-04-19
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3. The Black Forest 2011-04-20
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4. Western Pomerania coast 2011-04-21
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5. The Berchtesgaden Alps 2011-04-22
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6. Saxon Switzerland 2011-09-26
