(24 Apr 2025)
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Hallerbos, Halle, Belgium – 22 April 2025
1. Various of bluebells in Halle forest (Hallerbos) and forest visitors
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Hallerbos, Halle, Belgium -14 April 2025
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Gilles Gui, bluebell forest visitor:
“I notice a lot of silence in my head when I’m done with my sessions every time and that really helps me to put things together.”
3. Various of bluebells in the forest
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Gilles Gui, bluebell forest visitor:
“Yeah, it helps me keep some peace in my mind, really just take my mind away from everything that’s going on and it also…I think for people in general, it can be a good thing to reconnect with nature from time to time.”
5. Wide of Gui walking away into the forest
6. Various of bluebells in the forest
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Sint-Pieters-Leeuw, Belgium – 22 April 2025
7. Various set up shots of Ignace Glorieux chatting with journalist
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Ignace Glorieux, Sociology Professor, Free University of Brussels:
“I think especially a lot of young people are very uncertain and are afraid of what will happen in the future, how our future will be. I think this is also the generation maybe that suffered most from the COVID crisis, people who were, let’s say, 14, 15, 20, 25 years old at that time. Well, they witnessed that, which was very extraordinary. Nobody expected a thing like that. So they went through that, and now they come in a situation where there’s a lot of international uncertainty. So, especially this group, maybe more than our generation, is suffering from that and feel very uncertain about their future.”
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Hallerbos, Halle, Belgium – 14 April 2025
9. Various of bluebell forest
10.Various set up shots of Mark Demesmaeker chatting with journalist
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Demesmaeker, Halle Alderman:
“Yes, it’s strange times and people have stress and uncertainty and they feel the tensions, of course. But, well, science tells us that green spaces like these are a balm for stress. We locals, I’m local, we’ve known that all along. We have known that for a long time. We come here and we walk with these bluebells, but in other times of the year as well, walking here, the forest valleys, the wildlife, the forest streams, they work onto your mind all year round. And it’s really a big green hug that you get here. It soothes your mind. It’s a living pharmacy for your psyche.”
12. Pan right of Demesmaeker cycling into the forest
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Philippe Thiry, bluebell forest visitor:
“Well, I mean, it’s very important to have some places like that, just to breathe and just to escape from the stress and from what we have daily, you know, when you work and when you are always in a hurry, you have to always to have a look on your watch. Well, that’s important to have places where you can relax, where you enjoy the nature, where you can see flowers, trees, listening to the birds singing and well that’s what we are looking for.”
14. Thiry walking through the forest
15. Various of bluebells in the forest
STORYLINE:
LEADIN
With the world awash in stress and anxiety, nature can be the perfect spring antidote.
One good way to soothe the brain is taking time to head into nature and focus on what it has to offer.
Hallerbos wood in Belgium is a forest carpeted in bluebells at this time of year and has been described as a "living pharmacy for your psyche."
STORYLINE
Everywhere you look in Hallerbos wood in Belgium is a sea of bluebells.
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