Moose became extinct in most of Germany around 1000 CE, and in Bohemia, Moravia, Austria, most of southern Poland, and Hungary by the XV. century.

It's not clear where exactly Emil comes from, but most likely from Poland, which has a large moose population in the northeast. In early summer 2025, he crossed the Czech border and wandered south through Moravia into Austria. He swam across the Danube near Vienna, then turned west. Along the way, he frightened the monks at Melk Abbey, and by the end of September he had passed Linz in Upper Austria. Much of his journey took him through densely populated and even industrial regions, such as Silesia and the Danube Valley.

Europe is rewilding. Sometimes it's deliberate, as with European bison, other times it just a consequence of reforestation and a less polluted [...]

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