Sweden, the lost paradise of wild forests

By car, on Swedish roads, it is inevitable to have the impression that the forest is everywhere, with its dark mottling which extends to the horizon, its army of trunks which scroll on the side aisles.

It occupies 70% of the national territory - a record in Europe, shared with Finland - and penetrates into the heart of cities.

The Allemansrätt, free access to nature, is a right enshrined in the Constitution which allows everyone to walk it, pick berries and mushrooms.

Like many of his fellow citizens, the biologist Sebastian Kirppu has therefore got into the habit of stopping in a parking lot, a little at random, to sink into the foliage.

Except that most often it is then found in a

"leek field"

rather than in a real forest:

“First clue: there are no dead trees,” he

remarks immediately.

Then look at these aligned trunks… They are always the same coniferous trees, with the same template.

When you touch their bark, thin as

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