For the past ten years, the tracks are clearly visible after visitors have searched near the tree.

Previously, protective lichens and moss lay over the stones that protected Old Tjikko's root system - stones that today are completely exposed when visitors worn away the layer.

- When people come here, they want to see Njupeskär and they want to see Old Tjikko, says Sofia Tiger who is the director of Naturrum at Fulufjället National Park.

This year, the world's oldest tree has been marked on the hiking maps for the first time.

- Then we have at least channeled the visitors to walk along the trampled paths that have become, but of course you still get sad when you stand here, Tiger says and points out over the stone ridge that has formed around the tree.

The national park must now seriously review what measures must be taken.

Otherwise, the future of the tree hangs on a fragile thread.