This National Park is DYING

The #Harz which is one out of just 16 National Parks in Germany, is under attack. Since 2018, a bark beetle infestation is killing hundreds of hectare of spruce trees which have been planted there to counteract the huge wood demands of the mining industry from the past 3000 years. The spruce tree, which isn't even native to the Harz National Park, is the perfect snack for the #Barkbeetle which can reproduce explosively if the conditions are right, and today, 4 years after the start of the infestation, over 40% of the forest is dead. The Harz National Park authority came up with a plan where Nature will be let nature, meaning that the national park will be left untouched by humans for the rest of time, and mother nature will be made responsible for recreating the primeval forest of Central Europe once again.
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:35 The Harz in history
3:17 The Harz today
5:44 The future of the Harz
Music:
Earth Appears - Brian Bolgar
Rain Fuse - French Fuse
Sonora - Quincas Moreira
A Fool's Theme - Brian Bolgar
The End - Coyote Hearing
Antimatter - The Westerlies
Snowfall Butterflies - Asher Fulero

[@FactSpark]

Small correction for 6:13 and 7:17 where the map is supposed to be the one from this website: www.nationalpark-harz.de/de/der-nationalpark-harz/wir-ueber-uns/gebietsgliederung/ instead of the edited one that I used.

[@Benaplus1]

It feels like there are a lot of parallels between what's happening in the Harz now and what happened in the Rockies in the 2010s. There were huge spruce beetle outbreaks in Colorado, and areas in the central San Juan Mountains look ghostly with all the bare trees. But there is actually a lot of forest regeneration happening, with both young spruces and firs, but also more deciduous trees like aspen. Hopefully something similar will happen in the Harz.

[@SmoothGefixt]

Nice video! Great efforts looking into the background information! I wanted to ask you if I can use some of the drone footage of the dead spruces in your video for a video I'm making myself with regard to the subject? Is the footage yours? I'll give you credits of course, with a link to your video. Thanks a million!

[@FactSpark]

Hey, yes the drone footage is mine and I can share it with you! Send me an email to the one from the about page on my channel and we will figure something out