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Hainich National Park is a protected area for animals and plants:

You can observe rare animals like the wild cat, the black stork, or the Bechstein bat.

Woodpeckers find ideal nesting places, you can watch tree falcons, whinchats, stonechats, great grey shrikes and red back shrikes. ...

In Hainich National Park you find the largest stretch of deciduous mixed forest in Europe, including a large amount of beech trees.

For decades, the South of the Hainich was used as a military training site, the woods could develop undisturbed during this time. In areas that had been cleared away, trees begin to grow. In Hainich National Park you have the rare opportunity to observe the natural development of a forest ...