1. The Białowieża Forest is 8000 years old.
2. The forest covered all of north-east Europe in the past.
3. People travelled by boats on rivers before the 14th century.
4. There weren’t any bison in the forest in the early 1920s because they almost went extinct. People during the war killed them for food and sport during WW1.
5. The national park started putting bison back in the wild in 1929.
6. You can find about 250 species of birds in the forest.
