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Each spring, millions of people have been set up on a livestream moose in northern Sweden every spring.
“Great Migration of Elk” monitors animals when they float along the Angerman River and make an annual journey to green, summer pastures.
This year, the 24 -hour SVT Play program, the Swedish National TV company, started on Tuesday -a week earlier than a warm weather schedule in April this year.
The broadcast has become the phenomenon of “slow television”, growing a loyal fan -baza since its creation in 2019.
60-year-old Kate Borjasan, who was connected to the annual broadcast, since she came across it during the Covid-19 pandemic, stated that her TV continued 16 consecutive after it started on Tuesday.
“It’s incredibly relaxing,” she said. “There are natural sounds of birds, winds, trees. It gives you the feeling that you are in nature even if you don’t.”
For Kate, monitoring how migration has become an annual tradition, so much that it bobs on vacation to fully immerse themselves in a three -week broadcast.
She said the flow was “like therapy” that helped her anxiety and panic attacks.
And she’s not alone. SVT live broadcasts have a wide audience, including a Facebook group that boasts more than 77,000 members who are united to share their unforgettable moments, emotional reactions to broadcasting and a general hobby of migration.
The main part of their journey, shot by SVT, passes through the village of Kulberg in northern Sweden, near the review.
Horon Erickson, Dean of the Faculty of Forest Sciences at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Scientific Advisers for broadcasting, said the elk is migrating back into the summer range after aggregation in spots with the best temperatures in winter.
“Historically, this migration has been going on from the Ice Age,” he said. “In the spring and summer, the elk are more evenly distributed in the landscape.”
He added that about 95% of moose in northern Sweden migrate annually, adding that the early migrations were not new, and this year was shown in less snow on Earth.
“Early sources happen from time to time,” he said. “We are still within the norm of variations.”
More than 30 cameras are used to capture the elk when they move along wide landscapes, he added.
The show attracted almost a million people during their launch in 2019 before gathering nine million viewers in 2024.
Mini-Tan Tuang Trongang, a researcher at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, who surveyed live waste spectators, said in a fast-paced media-environment, people like to experience nature through this “slow television” style, which is characterized by long, non-edited.
“A lot of people say it’s like an open window in the forest,” he says. “When you ask them if they prefer to have music in the background or comment, they say they prefer to just have the sound of wind, birds and trees.”
About 300,000 moose live in Sweden’s forest. The animal is known in the Scandinavian country as “King of the Forest”.
