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***Correction to one claim in the script***
In the video, we claim that the study we quote on two occasions comes from 'Nature Magazine'. The study was actually published in ‘Scientific Report’ magazine. The latter belongs to the publishing house 'Nature Research' and is not related to 'Natura Magazine'.

***Clarification of one claim in the script***
The figure of “97%” named in the video (in minute 00:38) is not a quote from the above mentioned study. It refers to 97% of Germany’s forests being intensively harvested forests, which, as claimed by our interview partners in the video, are not well equipped to adapt to a changing, heating climate.

Most of Europe’s forests are not ready for a heating planet and whether they survive yet another heat wave in 202 remains to be seen.

Already two consecutive heat waves in 2018 and 2019 threatened the survival of forests and the fertility of arable land across Europe. Western and Central Europe were especially affected, as its vegetation is adapted to milder climatic conditions.

According to a study in Nature magazine the severe summer drought in 2018 and 2019 put European forests under serious threat. The consequences of those droughts are now becoming fully apparent.

While a similarly severe drought a decade earlier saw vegetation quickly recover, this time European forests are not recovering fast enough, negatively affecting the fertility of Europe’s soils and wildlife.

But if one looks closer, it becomes clear that the type of forests dying as a consequence of those heat waves are mostly non-native tree plantations. Natural forests are still holding up.

But this too could change if a European forest industry that is primarily timber-oriented, doesn’t quickly embrace a more natural approach to forest management.

For the past 20 years Lutz Fähser has been proving that change is possible. In the Lübeck Forest in Germany he hopes to prove how forests can provide us with wood and paper, while we still treat them as what they are: a living ecosystem.

#HeatWave #WildfiresEurope #Europe2022
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Director and producer Fátima González-Torres (IG: @fatilugonzalevic)
Editing & post-production by Pako Quijada (IG: @pakoquijada)
Motion graphics & animation by Forat Elalfy (IG: @foratau)
Script Fátima González-Torres
Cinematography Shane Thomas McMillan (IG: @dokumentarian)
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