“Trees are often deliberately felled in primeval forests so that they no longer receive the protection status as untouched forests.” Romania has the largest primeval forest reserves in Europe and has a massive problem with illegal logging and corruption. Read the impressive report in ZEIT:
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Romania: where Europe's last virgin forests are being destroyed
Few ancient forests have survived on the continent. The largest are in Romania - but it is here that illegal logging rages. Now the EU intervenes.