The Białowieża Forest World Heritage site, on the border between Poland and Belarus, is an immense range of primary forest including both conifers and broadleaved trees covering a total area of ...

The largest, however, is the Bialowieza Forest, the oldest temperate forest in Europe. Once covering much of the continent, there are over 350,000 acres of the 12,000-year-old forest remaining ...

This researcher of mammal behaviour calls herself a ‘zoopsychologist’. For over thirty years, she lived in a forester’s lodge in the midst of the Białowieża Forest. The photos taken by Lech Wilczek, ...

A World Heritage Committee draft decision released today by UNESCO signalled a possible “in danger” listing for Europe’s last primeval forest with the UN body expressing “utmost concern” for the site.

Through a gaping hole in the canopy of Poland’s Białowieża Forest, piles of logs from commercial logging await transportation. Braving a media ban and the police, Joris captured this drone image ...

Primeval forest like Białowieża used to cover the European plain 10,000 years ago, and the Polish government is fighting an EU order to stop logging it. Video journalist: Charlotte Pamment First ...

Yet in Bialowieza, a forest straddling the border between Belarus and Poland, tarpans apparently still graze. Bialowieza (pronounced bya-woe-VYE-zha) is the only fragment of primeval lowland ...

Since 2018, she has been a licensed tour guide for Białowieża National Park. Dr Simonienko is also a member of the Japanese organisation INFOM, which is dedicated to shinrin-yoku, or forest bathing.

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