Uploaded October 2018 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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The Primeval Beech Forests of Europe is a large, multi-national UNESCO World Heritage site. It covers many different forests, bio-reserves and national parks across 12 European countries, including Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Slovakia and many others. Beech forests once covered much of the European continent, but have slowly been cleared and destroyed to make way for farmland, and the ancient primeval pockets only survive in a few small areas. For this site, we visited Heinich National Park in Germany. Let's have a look!

For more German World Heritage sites:
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For more forest World Heritage sites:
Białowieża Forest: youtu.be/eO7QkUBrzGs
Laponian Area (Lapland): youtu.be/12sderuqu0E
Garajonay National Park: youtu.be/2ANAuZkeAd8

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