Stop forest degradation in Romania - an appeal to put interests of local communities and nature first For centuries, forests have belonged to Romania´s treasures, nurturing wildlife, cleaning air and ...

BUCHAREST, RomaniaBUCHAREST, Romania — Two journalists and an environmental activist have been beaten up by suspected illegal loggers in a forest in northeastern Romania while making a documentary ...

Almost 30 percent of Romania is forest—something I didn’t know until this week. Five percent of this is designated as primary forest, the highest level for biodiversity and carbon capture. There are ...

Image caption, Romania is home to the biggest area of virgin forests in Europe but they are at increasing risk of illegal loggers Forest ranger Liviu Pop was responding to a tip-off about illegal ...

In the past 19 years, Romania has lost as much forest land as other countries have lost in the whole of the last century. Such an abrupt and catastrophic loss made it an absolute imperative that the ...

Volunteers are fighting to save some of Europe's last virgin forest by painstakingly mapping areas under government protection. But they say a change of mentality is needed if the EU is to set an ...

Home to Europe’s largest swath of pristine, old-growth forests, Romania’s otherwise idyllic woodlands have become the perhaps unlikely setting for a series of murders – pitting the “wood mafia” ...

A fierce debate has erupted over a new forestry code in Romania aimed at protecting unique wildlife habitats and controlling the logging industry. This month thousands of Romanians took to the streets ...

Stop forest degradation in Romania - an appeal to put interests of local communities and nature first For centuries, forests have belonged to Romania´s treasures, nurturing wildlife, cleaning air and ...

Two journalists and an environmental activist have been beaten up by suspected illegal loggers in a forest in northeastern Romania while making a documentary about illicit deforestation, authorities ...

Forest ranger Liviu Pop was responding to a tip-off about illegal logging when he was shot dead with a hunting rifle this week. He is the second Romanian forest ranger killed in just over a month, and ...