Semenic National Park / Romania: UNESCO World Heritage protected primary beech forest "Nera Springs". In the rest of the park logging is omnipresent.

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Romania is home to the largest tracks of primary and old growth forests in the EU outside Scandinavia. However, the extremely valuable forests are disappearing at a high rate due to legal and illegal logging, even in Natura 2000 protected sites or buffer zones of national parks.

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Location: Semenic - Cheile Carasului National park, Romania
Photo credit: © Matthias Schickhofer / Alamy / Afripics
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