We've planted 120,000 trees on a Romanian mountain - here's why
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- This is one of our oldest projects and one that makes us all really proud. I can't think of any place in Europe that is wilder than the amazing Southern Carpathian Mountains which makes restoring them a privilege.
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Active versus passive restoration: Forests in the southern Carpathian Mountains as a case study
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0:00 Intro
1:28 History
2:46 Ecology
4:13 Illegal logging
7:56 Our area
🔎 ABOUT THIS PROJECT
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Romania's Carpathian Mountains are home to some of Europe’s last remaining truly wild forests and the largest population of bears, wolves and lynx. Sadly, this ecosystem hangs in the balance due to years of illegal logging. Our goal is to restore the barren clear cuts that threaten these forests. In partnership with Foundation Conservation Carpathia we are working to restore clear cuts in the Romania's Southern Carpathian Mountains.
Read more here: mossy.earth/projects/reforest...
👋 Hey there! If you think this project is worth supporting then please consider becoming a Mossy Earth Member :) You can do so here: mossy.earth/. - Cheers, Duarte
Fantastic! Vids are so much better, well done! PS. in the near future, I'll working with you! Mark my words! Thanks Tom and Duarte, and team.
I hope your target forest does not look like the monoculture in the miniature of the video.
Hey Duarte, great video as always. Let's plant more trees all over Europe !!! And I just became member too !
I finally signed up as a monthly contributor. These projects are all so far away from me, but does that matter? I see good being done- and if it benefits anyone, it benefits us all!
@@troyclayton Exactly, trust me, it really benefits everyone. Its a ripple affect. Well done Troy, We need more people like you. (don't forget to download the app) 😁
Just donated $165 to your worthy efforts! I'll never see Romania but I'm glad to help from Florida
Thank you Robert! We will put it to good use :) - Cheers, Duarte
@@MossyEarth I'm sure you will!
IM sure you can if you want maybe one Day :)
never say never! hello from Romania
Thank you.
As a Romanian, knowing about the illegal logging in the Carpathians situation, I will donate to Mossy Earth. You've done a great job, keep at it!
so that the same companies can make more profit from illegally cutting in the same area in 20years? Lets be honest, you guys need to get your politics under control. I know they're corrupt, but they can also be toppled. Ceausescus regime was as well and you got rid of him. Mossy Earth can't save your country, and 120'000 trees wont do much.
Logging your own forests can provide your own people with jobs and boost your own countries exports. Coupling that with a reforestation-law you can continue this cycle for centuries.
Having all this given to foreign companies with foreign employees and so on in exchange for some few corrupt dicks being bribed ultimately lowers your countries wealth.
This simple argument should be able to resonate with most people strong enough, to implement a change of law by political referendum, or whatever tools you guys have to intervene into politics.
@@dominikgadze4221 First of all, all of Europe is corrupt, just look at the Qatar and Eva Kaili corruption scandal. It's just that our DNA (not the biological kind, anti corruption department) in the last 10 years has been on a corruption hunt, headed by Codruta Kovesi, who is now the head of the European anti corruption department, she has been promoted by the EU. European countries like the mafia state of Italy is not less corrupt than Romania. In Italy it gets more dangerous to hunt for corruption, many journalists were killed by the Italian mafia. Romanians aren't stupid, we know that foreign countries, especially Austria do most of the illegal logging in my country and also play with the numbers. Because of climate change, now trees grow faster than the antiquated measuring techniques from 40 years ago say. Romania should use special scanners to number the trees, like they do in Western Europe and that is being talked here. Also, the Austrian private companies cut a lot of healthy more expensive trees and don't cut diseased trees that are almost worthless to show 'hey, we didn't cut those trees". Those Austrians are some cunning motherf**ers.
Is illegal /legal logging still ongoing in this area? Can it happen again? Are there any laws in place to stop it from happening again?
@@kareenapandya1877 when the politicians doesnt follow the laws there is no point to make another laws...
in the last 30 years they made new laws change some laws then change again and again each party which been on power they changed the laws for their purpose.
@@kareenapandya1877 the logging never stopped. People in positions of power concerning these forests are politically appointed and work toghether with the loggers. For example some rangers will mark all the healthy trees on a patch as unhealthy, next day the company that won the contract for the sanitization of the forest (more than likely after a rigged auction) will cut down all the healthy trees and leave only the trees they were supposed to cut down. Happens everyday on most mountain ranges.
As a Romanian and a Mossy Earth member - thank you for all you're doing!
No, thank you Andrei for being a member! - Cheers, Duarte
Fellow Romanian. Salut, the main company doing this is schweighofer. This is at it's worse in the carpathians and bucovina. Investigation journalists even got deaththreats and guns pointed at them. All of this because of corruption. Sadly i don't see any way to stop this from a legal point of view, and also how to enforce this because police is way to corrupt and will defend the illegal logging because they get a cut of the profit.
Still use plastics tho lol
The trees look all the same kind. Is this a monoculture planted forest?
@@nielsqbc4 a lot of the forests at home look like this, maybe a bit more diverse, rarely monoculture, they are just reaaaaly old, simply because not everything can handle the soil and environment there. So you will have a lot of conifers and a few non here and there and at higher altitudes, it's conifers only.
Romania should be on everyone's bucket list.
Agreed!
Andrew Tate is exploiting Romanian Women and doing well. I feel you.
Wanna get mugged in broad daylight?
@@simonasvaitiekunas5326 💀
Well the UK is certainly on the Romanian's 'bucket list' 😆😆
You motivated me to "reforest" an abandoned open mine in my area...i gathered native seeds from hardy species and also native fruit trees, wild strawberries and native herbs like oregano and rosemary (i live in Greece)
The municipality tries to do the same thing, i just aid them by secretly enriching the area with more rare native species and scrubs that also attract wildlife to the area😁
Great job! 😀💚
Thank you for your work ! People doesn't imagine that this is the most important job we have as human being protecting and reparing what the other destroyed .
Thanks for putting in the work! Trying to do my part here in southern California
Love it!
Thank you for planting trees 🙏🏼
Respect I’m 14 and I live on a 30 acre farm and I’m currently preparing to growing all kinds of native trees to my area
Good luck Bob! - Cheers, Duarte
Hey bob, i have no idea where that is, but if you have small rivers and some vegitation already and there aren't any beavers yet, see if you can get some help reintroducing them, they're worth their weight in gold when it comes to nature restoration. They take so much work off your hands and with their habitat creation restore groundwater levels and help more plants grow :)
@@vossejongk ya across the street there used to be beavers idk if they are still there because I think he trapped them but the last time I was over there I saw Fresh chew marks in a tree
look into permaculture as well if you havent yet
@@iridium8341beavers are as important as bees
Me, as romanian, opened TH-cam and saw this video on the homepage. A video with some people who are not romanians planting trees in my country. Amaizing! We are cutting them and some strangers are planting them back... shame on us, but respect for you! Thank you very much!
"There is no wilder place in Europe, it just feels different here"
People don't believe me when I tell them that RO mountains just feel different and it's not really something I can explain either but the feeling you get when being there and walking in those forests is just plain and simply different.
That's because of the Dacian blood spilled allover those forests. Without that sacrifice Europe would would have been conquered by the Ottoman empire.
@@DanielCojocarul wtf are you smoking??? there are 1500 years apart.
@@ikipemiko don’t mind the dacopaths, they’re like a cult
is it because of dracula
🌲 we can already see the difference!
in between all the mist and the rain 😂
On the windblown trees I remember someone telling me that the trees on the edge of a forest are stronger because they grow up taking the brunt of the wind. Once they are removed the trees further in are less able to take the wind force.
That is also what I have heard :) - Cheers, Duarte
I agree with that statement.
Same can be said about certain trees that get sun burned if they grow up in the dense forest and suddenly become next to a southerner open space. (Sorry I forgot which brand of tree that was)
Basic darwinian common sense to me.
Big respect from Hungary to Romanian neighbors! This work is outstanding! You guys are awesome!
Thank you Mossy Earth for helping reforest the romanian forests. As a fellow naturelover I will donate!
In latvia forest policy is strict. 50% of our forests own goverment. Our foresters are planting 12000 acres every year of new forests after logging. latvia is very rich in forests and trees are growing pretty fast. You are doing good job. God bless you
Don't forget to not only donate, but dedicate an hour of your life to picking up trash, planting trees/flowers and helping your local area. Don't just leave it up to other people, get stuck in.
It's so easy to destroy something but it takes so much time and care to restore. Well done.
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People did it because of high poverty during 1990s 2000s in ex communist countries like romania
Environement wasnt exactly the average romanian priority back in the 90s and 2000s
@Mathew Van Ostin
It's a good explanation for locals doing it. International corporations using the time of chaos and lack of gov protection is a completly different beast
Not different from modern diamond industry - destructive for the environment and completly not needed for the average person
As a Romanian i appreciate your efforts.
As a Romanian who lives close to a forest and can regularly hear the sound of huge trees crashing down due to illegal logging, I have nothing but thanks and respect for people such as those at Mossy Earth that actively try to combat this.
I found this channel not too long ago. I sadly can't donate or become a member because I'm broke, but the least I can do is a view, a like, a comment and a subscription. I live pretty close to your reforestation project. I'm in the Balkans. I love what your doing for the planet and I support it 😊
Hi David, a like and a thoughtful comment like this one go a long way for us :) Much appreciated my friend! - Cheers, Duarte
As a Romanian student who wants to study biology, you are my inspiration. Keep up the good work!!
Thank you for doing this work, it's good to see that there are people fighting for a better world, I wish I had money to donate, but the best I can contribute now is with a view, a like and a comment, so this video might get recommended to others who can do more.
My friend, a view a like and a thoughtful comment go a long way! Much appreciated :) - Cheers, Duarte
Plant a tree in your street or a bit of green space.
@@thomassmith7374 i did and the municipality cut them all down T_T
@@vossejongk Keep planting, we have a guy in Northern Ireland called the 'Phantom planter'plant first and then ask for forgiveness if any one complains 😀
@@thomassmith7374 they don't ask questions lol if it isn't on their map with yearly maintenance it's going down 🥲
6:39 yes this is completely right. Edge trees will buttress into the wind and put down deeper roots up wind, they also tend to grow abit shorter to to both catch less win and also because they have reduced light competition. In selective thinning projects they try to avoid removing lines of trees where the wind can go as it will start to blow to trees down from the inside out.
Thank you for the extra input! I was just trying to be cautious in this video but I think the windblown forests and the clear cuts/ illegal thinning are very closely related. - Cheers, Duarte
That is a crazy number of trees. What a success! I'm proud to be supporting you guys 🤘🏻🌲.
and as usual I am proud to have you as one of our oldest members! Merry Christmas my friend :) - Cheers, Duarte
Merry Christmas to you and all the Mossy Earth team 🎄.
You guys restore my faith in humanity
Thanks! - Cheers, Duarte
As a Romanian, I would like to express my deepest thanks for your work in Fagaras. The illegal and irresponsible legal logging is a very big problem here in Romania. Thank you again !
I am so moved by all you do, and I am delighted to be a small part of it!
..and I am moved by how many amazing people just like you make this work possible! 😁 - Cheers, Duarte
Lots of love from Romania. What you and your team are doing all around the world is amazing. Every time I watch one of these videos I gain a bit more hope for the future, thank you.
Greetings from Romania! 🇹🇩
Greetings :D! - Cheers, Duarte
Well there couldn’t be a better Christmas present then seeing your awesome work. Bless you, the work you are doing is absolutely amazing!
Thank you my friend! A bit of a strange launch time hahah. Merry Christmas! - Cheers, Duarte
This is really heartwarming news. Thanks , and much respect for you green World lovers 🌍🌎🌏🌍🌎🌏🌍🌎🌏🌍🌎🌏🌍
As a Romanian, I would like to give you a hug
Maybe next time I am there. You have a wonderful country my friend! - Cheers, Duarte
As a Romanian, thank you very much for all your work. It's so sad to see our beautiful landscapes destroyed like this by greed, lack of morals and corruption on a large scale.
🙏 Thank You So Much Mossy Earth 🌏 for Reforestation in many forests that lost due to selfish human activities. Mother Nature will Blessed you guys for protecting these forests! 🌷🌿🌏💜🕊
Also sow grass and flower seed to bind the soil and compliment the trees.
We have other understory restoration projects and we will pass some of that knowledge to this project in the coming years :) - Cheers, Duarte
Love the work that you're doing! Greetings from Norway :)
Thank you my friend! - Greetings, Duarte
Oh hello! Greetings from Târgu Mureș town, Romania! 😊 Keep it up with planting trees! 🌲
Greetings my friend! - Cheers, Duarte
it is very nice to make these, keep it up, greetings from turkey
Thank you Omer! - Cheers, Duarte
I don't know if you are a romanian, this is the first time that i see one of your videos, but anyways you did more than even us did, more than the government did. I am so happy to see that there is still hope. Keep doing the great job!
As a Romanian I cannot thank you enough for what you do.
Thanks as always! And of course a very Merry Christmas to all of you at Mossy Earth!
Thank you Felix and Merry Christmas! 🎄 - Cheers, Duarte
I am probably going to plant trees in burned area's in the beginning of the spring in Greece. I am really excited because i see this video where going to do it whit school for 14 days
Very cool! I wish you a lot of success on your tree planting effort :D - Cheers, Duarte
love the updates on projects!
Thank you Noah, we do our best to keep our members up to date. Sorry for the strange release date haha - Cheers, Duarte
Great work guys! Proud to be a supporter of your projects and to know "my" trees have been planted in the Southern Carpathian Mountains.
You are doing more work than our government has promised and not done for years, thank you from the bottom of my heart.
This hit hard because this was once my homeland and seeing it ripped apart is sad. What you guys are doing is inspirational and I hope the world changes and more people continue to see the importance of preserving the natural world.
Happy to see you taking the train rather than flying. Love all your work!
I love seeing the updates on our old projects, makes it all worth it to see the progress. Plus I really do need to go spend some time in this wilderness.
It is a very special place! Next team meetup Paul ;) - Cheers, Duarte
Gave you a like before even watching. As a romanian i can't thank you enough for your efforts. I still dream of the day when good people, aware people like you will have the power to actually address the real cause of deforestation of the romanian ancestral woods - the big Austrian companies that are strong enough to sway in their favor even the state government. Someday, maybe. Until then, whatever can be done is a godsend.
Vă mulțumesc mult!
Very inspiring work! It makes me want to look up what kinds of ecosystem restoration work is happening around me. I live near the Chesapeake Bay and not too far from the Appalachian mountains so I'm sure there is plenty of work to be done
Go for it and good luck my friend! - Cheers, Duarte
So good to see our four year planting area doing so well. How many of my jackets were you wearing throughout the video? ,😉
At least 3! 😂
Can you talk about thirsty cement and how if cities used this even if it was only parking lots would save millions to billions of tons of sand every year.
Also thirsty cement can reduce flooding and increase groundwater levels.
Oh ya reducing sand mining and use can save ecosystems helping save us.
Imagine being in charge of clear felling that beautiful habitat - great work Mossy Earth!
Thanks Rob and thank you for the effort to get this video done! Merry Christmas mate! - Cheers, Duarte
People need resources. The simple fact you are alive and consuming all sorts of things necessitates gathering of natural resources like this. It's hard for people to grasp the cognitive dissonance that consumes their mind.
@@SimonHergott don't gather them abroad
Thank you so much for your help to preserve and restore our beautiful forests! Europe needs more of this.
Being a Brit in Bucharest I really respect what you're doing. Bravo.
What's the point in mentioning your are a Brit??
@@E.X.P.E.R.I.M.E.N.T.A.L What's the point in your reply? Exactly.
@@mistjor6286 typical Brits answering with a question. Resume to your nationality when crossing the border only.
@@E.X.P.E.R.I.M.E.N.T.A.L Hahaha. I'm not a Brit, but okay. Either way, you seem to be nothing more than a sad little troll.
@@mistjor6286 get off the crap weed and be a real man. You are an ashamed Brit I take it. Calling ppl trolls doesnt't make them one but gives you a little relief and comfort to your online anger.
Thank you for your dedication for our planet.I have been currently concerned about environment and I’m changing my behavior to reduce my carbon footprint.From Thailand
I've heard similar theories about storm sensitivity after logging here in Sweden. Southern Sweden was hit by a huge storm about a decade ago and the damages was huge. The storm was called Gudrun if you want to look for it in the archives.
I visited guys from Carpatian this summer with school. They took us to some of these sights, clear cuts, ancient forests and more. They are really profesionals in what they're doing.
Thanks guys, keep up the good work!
More Power to you all at Mossy Earth
LOL the clip of the wolf taking a dump
But those drone shots with hte logged patches of forest are heartbreaking. I can't even imagine the amount wildlife that was probably killed in the process. But your channel is very inspiring and gives me a little bit of hope for the future of the planet.
Still thousend of train cars of logs are exported right now from Romania. Not alot changed.
I think it would be cool if there was merch so we could also show our support on top of being a member
Need to figure out how to do this without creating more waste 🧐 Ive added this to the ideas list! - Cheers, Duarte
Hope these projects will get recognized more next year! It's really mesmerizing to see how we can recover some areas. Merry Christmas!~
We are really happy with how things are going but we would love to get more attention to some of these problems. - Cheers, Duarte
Be blessed Young Man for the work you doing for my beautiful country Romania
I dream of visiting here. Just became a member. Thanks for all you do.
You should definitely take a trip there! Its a beautiful and truly wild place :) Thank you for supporting our work, it is what makes it all possible! Cheers, Duarte
Omg amazing work guys
Thank you Luke! - Cheers, Duarte
Always great to see results and to think this was made possible by mossy earth members. Also very exciting to think about what we will be able to look back on in a few more years!
I’m from B.C., Canada but spent a night traveling 😢Romania. Same problems here with clearcut!
Great to get those summaries of academic work thrown in. I always learn something from your videos! Very happy to have been a member since a few months.
In Czech Republic, also a post-communism country, the clearcuts are still done, and not always with the excuse of the spruce bark beetle. Sometimes it's just the momentum of how things were done before. The forresters learn "how it should be done" by old high school teachers that never accepted the modern ecological concerns. And ordinary loggers often don't care a bit about the forest, they just want the work to be done. The momentum of stupidity and carelessness is a great force in the world, including the concerns for the nature.
Exactly
Well clear cuts are quite common in Sweden as well.
@@mhill3884 at least in sweden they plant them back
@@Throrma Yes they do, it's a law. But most production forests in Sweden is really nasty for both humans and animals. There are no biodiversity and just about when they start to turn somewhat nice, they are clear cut again.
@@mhill3884 sad, I didn't know that part
What a gorgeous area. You did a great job. Thank you.
Vocês sao incriveis. É um orgulho ver estes projetos em ação
Obrigado! Abraço, Duarte
Can you please tell me who the corporations are that purchased the illegal wood that was cut? It is hard to fight them by condemnation when I don’t know who they are.
Thank you for this video, I love the project updates. And also congrats on the 200k milestone!
Thank you Patrik! :) - Cheers, Duarte
Those spruce look amazing :)
Hi man! I appreciate what you’re doing so much. Thank you for doing something that we as Romanians are not able to, not just planting trees but showing everyone what illegal logging can do to the nature. You’re awesome 🤩
I've done tree seeding on clear cuts, it was on boggy but flat lands - that must be so tiring on a mountain side!
I do wonder, wouldn't it be easier to bring bottles with holes in the cap full of seeds and shake the bottle every few meters to just spread seeds everywhere? must be hard to haul so many saplings up the slopes.
The trees look really healthy 4 years in.
Thank you so much for doing this, im also romanian and i also planted a few trees on Apuseni Mountains, i hope you will visit them
I love the transparency of mossy earth. It not only allows you to see the impact your money has had but also it builds trust and deferientiates them from other companies with similar goals but that feel less humane as their updates only come as emails and you never get to know the people involved in their project.
Running out of areas to plant in the mountains that’s great
Indeed! It is all credit to Carpathia's hard work in both protecting and restoring this amazing mountain range :) - Cheers, Duarte
Thank you for doing this and all of your hard work!
Thank you Sir. You are doing what we, as Romanians, would have to do. Un fagarasan din Germania.
As a Hungarian whose family hails from Transylvania, I applaud your work. I'll make sure to make a donation once the next payday comes around.
Keep up the good work 👍
Thanks, we will! - Cheers, Duarte
you guys are legends
Thanks! - Cheers, Duarte
I am starting a native ecosystem on my property after watching your videos keep up the good fight I chip in where I can
On god thank you for restoring some of my country's nature ❤️
Great work. 🤗😎
Thank you Gail! - Cheers, Duarte
Thank you. Clear cutting of my homeland is something that has always angered me.
Congrats! Feels good to see projects like this popping up all across Europe
So glad to see that some action is being taken in the Fagaras mountains! I spend a lot of time in these forests doing bird surveys and observations as a volunteer, which is also part of a Carpathia project. It is wonderful to do work which contributes to the preservations of this beautiful landscape!
Good job guys!!!!!
Can I ask you a question. Plant and trees needs carbon, water, sunlight, nitrogen, kalium, fostor and some other metals like magnesium and iron. When they remove an entire forest for their wood is there enough minerals for them regrow back when new trees are planted? Because they do remove a lot of vital minerals what is important for the growth of new plants and trees. I mean a forest is a delicate cycle of life when they disrupt that with making that cycle smaller. Does that effect a forest? For the rest great job!
The roots generally stay there, because the lack of trees a lot of topsoil from the surroundings comes to. So while they have less nutrients, they still have nutrientes
Hi Jari, thank you for the question. The main problem with a clear cut on these steep slopes is the loss of soil through erosion but the soil composition is good enough. All we have to do is replant relatively fast (a few decades after losing the forest) so that there is still enough soil left. - Cheers, Duarte
@@joaquimbarbosa896 Also enough to fully grow back? Cause that is what I doubt. And also the same paste?
Thanks!
@@Jari_Leandertaler Yes, ofc my guy
A chunck of trees can't absorb every single nutrient in an area, and while and new trees grow many more nutrients will come by
You all should be very proud! Such astonishing achievements! Very exciting business ❤️
Thank you Maggie! - Cheers, Duarte
We have a beautiful country that we do not know how to value. Your gesture of helping Romania is wonderful.
Spruces are easily knocked down by strong winds, as their roots are shallow and spread horizontally. Do you think birches could grow in the mountains?
Absolutely love you guys! Keep up the videos, as it's really good to see where the money is going etc :)
Thank you my friend we do our best :) - Cheers, Duarte
This is amazing and so underated 😱. Still, I would've liked to see the actual planting and some wider shots of the areas. Well done to all that were and still are engaged in the project 👍👏🌲🌳🌲
Thank you for restoring Transylvanian nature - as a Hungarian resident of the Carpathian Basin with Transylvanian roots!