Sweden’s Great Moose Migration are living move ends after 478 hours’ viewing

For hundreds of years, moose have crossed rivers, navigated thawing forests and quietly adopted historical trails towards their summer time pastures in northern Sweden.

A 24-hour are living move gave thousands and thousands of audience front-row seats to look at each unhurried step of the adventure.

But on Sunday evening, the 7th season of Den stora älgvandringen (The Great Moose Migration, additionally translated as The Great Elk Trek) ended, after just about 3 weeks of uninterrupted pictures streamed by way of SVT Play, the platform of Sweden’s nationwide broadcaster.

Since its debut in 2019, the sequence has grown from a distinct segment public broadcasting experiment right into a cultural phenomenon, attracting with reference to 9 million audience in 2024.

“We are very satisfied,” stated Johan Erhag, SVT’s undertaking supervisor for the sequence. He showed the workforce has captured 478 hours of pictures, with 26 faraway cameras, seven night-vision ones and a drone streaming uninterrupted pictures since its release on 15 April.

The remaining appearing of the season concluded at 10pm native time on Sunday, with cameras shooting 70 moose (often referred to as European elk) making the spring crossing via Sweden’s Ångerman River – about 180 miles north of Stockholm.

The Great Moose Migration is a part of a rising fascination with “slow TV” – a style that took off in 2009 when Norway’s NRK aired a real-time, seven-hour educate experience from Bergen to Oslo.

The idea has since discovered cult standing throughout Europe, with pronounces that includes 12-hour knitting marathons, a 134-hour sea voyage, or even a crackling hearth move that crowned Netflix’s UK charts on Boxing Day.

Cashing in on its reputation, SVT has even been sending out push notifications when the primary moose seems, whilst a devoted Facebook workforce with greater than 76,000 individuals now stocks sightings, screenshots and hypothesis concerning the subsequent look.

Though reputable viewing figures for this 12 months’s season have not begun to be launched, SVT has already showed the moose will go back subsequent spring for an 8th version.