A secret camera hidden in Italy’s Apennine mountains has revealed a forest to be teeming with wildlife, from brown bears and wild boar to wolves and red deer.

Conservationists installed the camera and focused it on a clearing around a single beech tree for an entire year.

The camera recorded the changes of the seasons, from summer through to the thick snow of winter, and the comings and goings of animals, including foxes, badgers, roe deer and red deer.

In one section of the footage, a pack of wolves lope past the tree, while in another a brown bear rubs its back up and down the trunk while its cub sniffs around the base.