I inhaled the smell of wolf urine – that's the true nature of the wilderness

The place spans two Eastern European countries and is the reputation of the continent's last primeval forest–it has a glimpse of the world before it is suffocated by us and gay people. Arriving at night is a tunnel that passes through trees after an endless mile. You realize that this represents a small part of the whole. Because outside the border, the Belorussian part of Białowieêa is still larger. Overall, it extends to 149,000 hectares, but there are 131,000 hectares of buffer forest.

Imagine this whole: put all the reserves of all RSPBs in the UK, place them continuously, and then end up with all 46 wildlife trusted reserves and cover them on the tree. They still have fewer areas in Białowie.

It can be said that you still have only the impression in the general sense of seeing it in the darkness. During the day, you can separate the trees from the wood, when the details and experience are so large that it is almost overwhelming. For example, a black woodpecker drinks juice at the bottom of a tree and then flies around the forest Kreee-Kreee Name; male bison locks the horns, their breath thickens in the mold clouds in the air below zero morning. A pine tree, Marten, had his eyes erected on the shaft, with glittering furs on the shadow of the forest.

I can't capture Białowieża as an image, but maybe I can use the magic of this place as a smell. As we entered the original core of the National Park, our mandatory guide noticed a raised post and noted that Wolves used these locations for scent markings. There are five packs on the Polish side. He rubbed the leaves and fixed them for us to experience. Wolf pee has the most powerful natural smell I think I have ever encountered and I just wish I could include a scratch and nose in this column to convey it.

Strangely, however, once the instinct is withdrawn, an equally compelling reaction occurs: resampling. It is the stench of the wolf, but it is a perfume from the European wilderness, (to a large extent) undegraded by our species.

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