10% strict protection
Do you want 10% of Romania to be strictly protected?
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Asociaţia Agent Green
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10% strict protection
STRICTLY PROTECT 10 % OF ROMANIA
We have been trying to protect Romania’s valuable natural heritage in various ways for more than ten years, and now it is becoming more urgent than ever. The oldest forests, Europe’s last vast wilderness areas, home to species that disappeared from other countries long ago, are currently unprotected and being destroyed as you read this text. Their time is running out.
Less than 1% of Romania’s territory is strictly protected now. Nature is valued commercially rather than as the foundation of life. In the summer of 2020, Agent Green launched its Vision for Romania’s Forests, while the European Union launched its Biodiversity Strategy for the next 10 years. Both suggest full protection for 10% of the country’s territory to safeguard national security, as well as urgent improvements to Romania’s forest heritage and the restoration of ecosystem services, ensuring the social, ecological and economic conditions for the country’s development.
Get involved so that the last primary and old-growth forests are strictly protected to conserve biodiversity and act as carbon reservoirs to combat climate change, stabilising local communities through ecotourism and solutions close to nature. Together, we can live better and healthier lives and preserve and pass on Romania’s natural wonders, true natural laboratories.
Alongside the 500 000 hectares of primary and old-growth forests, mentioned as early as Romania’s sustainable development strategy in 1999 and in scientific books, and subsequently identified in the PRIMOFARO study updated in 2020, we propose the strategic selection of new national parks for protection, including in lowland areas and the wetlands in the south of the country.
AGENT GREEN’S VISION FOR ROMANIA’S FORESTS
What do we ask for?
10% STRICT PROTECTION for Romania’s territory
No intervention, hunting or deforestation, only ecotourism trails and local products.
We want strict protection for:
– All forests over 100 years old – 800 000 hectares
The Făgăraș Mountains
Lowland wetlands and the north of western Gorj
We have the right to a clean and healthy environment, and we have the resources to create a true biodiversity laboratory and a carbon reservoir to combat climate change that is especially important for the entire European Union. Romania is Europe’s lung. Old-growth forests connect the past and the future; we can never get them back if we do not protect those that remain NOW.
How?
In Parliament. Through advocacy and participation in public debates
In court. We currently have more than 130 lawsuits through which we are trying to protect areas that are protected only on paper
Online We launched the petition PROTECT 10% OF ROMANIA
Offline. We are preparing a flashmob. When the restrictions end, we will dance for the environment. Sign up here
Archive note: the original links for the petition and flashmob registration were not preserved in this material.
THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE FOR NATURE!
