13/09/2016
At the beginning of August Greenpeace Romania initiated a camp whose name was Forest Rescue Station. Volunteers from Romania, Austria, Germany, Netherlands, Hungary, Croatia, Finland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Switzerland were based in a station near Vidraru Lake, in the Argeș river basin, an area threatened by illegal logging and forest destruction. Greenpeace fears large amounts of these forests have been lost in the last decade. The volunteers mapped one of the last remaining ancient and old growth forests in Europe in order to highlight the need for the Romanian government to legally protect the forest. During three weeks Greenpeace was mapping the area and trying to make conscience of this problem. They also realized that there is other problem in the Romanian forests, and that problem is the trash so they decided to make a media campaign about that in the thirst week of the camp.
Three of us had the luck to join them during the last week of the camp. It was an unforgettable experience.
Also, two of us participated in a video to make conscience about the problem with the garbage in the nature (we will share the video in the next post). THANK YOU SO MUCH Greenpeace Romania for this opportunity!
