Everything Not Saved
"This ‘shifting baseline’ is a syndrome often cited in environmental studies, where with each new generation comes a world full and anew, a ‘normal’ that speaks little of what was lost. Only when visiting the ancient forest of Białowieża in Poland, which flows deep into Belarus, did we learn what Europe has lost – a vast and thriving mixed-forest biome that once extended across the European Plain from the British Isles in the west, east, to the Ural Mountains of Russia."