The Carpathian mountain range stretches for 900 miles across eight Central European countries. Its forests, some of them over 150 years old, are one of Europe’s last biodiversity havens. But « on average a forest area of more than five football pitches is lost to wood extraction every single hour », according to Greenpeace. #AFP  Damien SIMONART  Janek SKARZYNSKI #forest #environment | AFP News Agency | Facebook

Ever heard the howl? That ghostly, guttural cry slicing through the Carpathian night like a jagged blade, reverberating through the valley, setting your primal instincts on edge. This is no fairy tale, no fireside legend—the wolves of Romania are real, their presence as old as the mountains themselves. Here, in this land of tangled forests and mist-drenched ridges, they rule the dark, their amber eyes cutting through the blackness like distant lanterns of some forgotten underworld. Romania harbo