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Discovering wildlife of the Carpathian Mountains


Few weeks ago together with Mara we went to Romania to stay for a few days in a wildlife hides to see some animals, especially bears! The cool thing that the hides are managed by conservation NGO Carpathia and all of the profits goes into the conservation of wildlife and ecosystem of Fagarash Mountains. This video is my experience of staying for a few days in the mountains and seeing wild animals.

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in reply to Dima

Very peaceful and nice video and great to see these people doing such good things. Nature is so beautiful and we can learn so much from it. Plus the direct benefit of the ecosystem that we depend on. People are sold bullshit gadgets and holidays to touristic places that's why they have little to no clue how amazing the raw nature is. Imagine if people would spend their free time doing these sort of nature trips for free and nature would be everywhere. They would appreciate it a lot more and not need the bullshit stuff that's advertised.

Those cabins looked amazing - the view, the place, the fact that they were secluded from the rest of the busy bullshit society.

Great to see Mara joining you.

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in reply to Tio

Thank you Tio.
Yeah man, such places are not far from your hometown :)
Agree, people need to spent way more time in the raw nature rather than shopping malls. And surely most of such experiences in the wilderness are for free.
And this cabins are very nice, also because they are managed by conservation NGO they really pay attention to every smallest detail. Of course they don't feed the animals, but they also don't use any chemicals on the wood and walls of such cabins. Normally they will be treated to prevent rotting and protection from ants and other insects. But because such treatment is toxic, they decided not to use it. Kind of small detail, but it shows the values of the guys running this cabins.

And that's what we need to see more in our society.
Also large part of the forest there is restored by this organization. And as you know very well, in Romania illegal logging is quite huge issue.

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in reply to Dima

Yeah must be so difficult in Romania where there is so much corruption. So much so that I find it hard to trust even such NGOs fully. But they seem decent and doing some great work there.