Terra X: Our forests

The Germans love the forest, they say. A third of our country is covered with it - 90 billion trees in all. Many Germans have a special relationship with it, and yet most city dwellers know no more than three forest trees.

The "Terra X" three-part film "Our Forests" takes the audience into this miracle of evolution and tells stories from the realm of trees - from the invisible network of fungi to the underground helpers of biological waste disposal, from the world's largest freshwater reservoir to the miracle of photosynthesis, from flooded floodplain forests to the secret language of trees. Statistically speaking, each tree has only one offspring, although hundreds of thousands of tree seeds fall from the crowns every autumn. Then the big feeding begins in the forest, because the animals live on this waste.

With gyro-stabilized helicopters,..