Don't just vegetate, start planting trees!

100 volunteers planted 10,000 seedlings in the Romanian mountains last week. Dragos Bucurenci welcomes the battle against deforestation: "Romania's timber industry in is in the hands of Romsilva, the country's largest timber trader which at the same time administrates the forest stand. This represents a massive conflict of interests. Normally one would have a governmental forestry commission to control the number of trees felled, and companies that were obliged to work under the supervision of this authority. There are plans for setting up this kind of control for forests classified as nature reserves, but unfortunately the foreseen measures are totally inadequate. ... We are all to blame for failing to act. Every time we go on a picnic we should take seedlings along and plant them - then we could hope for a future with fresh air. If we continue to wait until the state takes action, the green lung will further deteriorate and our own lungs will also suffer."

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