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Romanian Carpathians: between dogs and bears
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Carpathian dog.
© Benjamin Ribout
By: Benjamin Ribout
1 min
Romania is the European country with the most bears and wolves.
The first would be, according to estimates, more than 6,000, the second about 3,000.
A presence that fascinates, but is also subject to debate.
A foundation campaigns for the preservation of Romanian forests and wild species, and wants to create the European Yellowstone, the largest national park in Europe, in the heart of the Romanian Carpathians, these mountains from which it borrowed the name: it is the Conservation Carpathia project, launched in 2009. At its head, a couple of biologists;
he German, she Austrian, came to Romania more than 25 years ago, to meet the wild nature.
Report around one of the latest projects of the Carpathia which aims to reintroduce a breed of dogs protecting the herds without being aggressive towards humans.
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