Germany’s smallest national park, located on the country’s largest island – the Isle of Rügen in the Baltic Sea – encompasses one of the last remaining stretches of ancient natural beech forest in Europe. Virtually untouched since the 13th century, the beech forest within Jasmund National Park supports an incredible variety of plant and animal species, whose life cycles are underpinned by the waxing and waning of the seasons

March 2009