Forests are part of the European collective conscience. They have inspired myths, legends, fairytales, paintings, poetry and films. They are home to countless animals, a place of relaxation and leisure for humans and provide us with a material that is vital to our civilisation: wood. They also evoke that form of killing that has been elevated to the status of a noble art: hunting. And even though Europeans do not generally identify as citizens of the world, they are aware that the Amazonian,...