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The bark beetle is the most dangerous pest in the domestic forestry industry. Due to climate change, it is spreading ever faster and causing great damage. A trained nose should help!
Climate change is causing milder temperatures, longer periods of drought and more frequent extreme weather events. As a result, trees are being weakened. The beneficiary is the highly problematic pest bark beetle, which is spreading rapidly and can cause entire areas of forest to die. This situation requires intensive bark beetle monitoring, which places a heavy burden on the capacity of forestry operations. In order to preserve the protective forests, Antonin Hugentobler, district forester of Scuol, took the initiative and came up with an original tool: a dog's sniffer nose.
