★SPIEGEL bestseller!
★Rights sold to Mainland China!
★Identify plants and animals – discover the ecosystem!
★Written by the well-known German forester and author Peter Wohlleben! Many of his books have bacame an international bestseller and translated in to different languages!
★350 colour photographs, hardback

In this nature guide, the well-known forester Peter Wohlleben presents more than 250 plant and animal species of the forest in his typically unconventional manner. He explains the interrelationships between the forest dwellers and the functions of the forest, as well as the influences of foresters and hunters. Encounter well-known and unknown species alike from a whole new point of view:

　　Why does the wolf help the trees?
　　What does the European hare get up to in the forest?
　　What does it mean when there are beavers about?
　　What’s wrong when there are no willowherbs?
　　What do lichens tell us about the forest?

Peter Wohlleben answers questions about the forest as an ecosystem, casts a critical eye on typical forest use and highlights alternatives.

Peter Wohlleben
spent over twenty years working for the forestry commission in Germany before leaving to put his ideas of ecology into practice. He now runs an environmentally friendly woodland, where he is working toward the return of primeval forests, as well as caring for both wild and domestic animals.
Wohlleben has been celebrated for his distinctive approach to writing about nature; he brings to life groundbreaking scientific research through his observations of nature and the animals he lives among. His first work translated to English, The Hidden Life of Trees is an international bestseller.