Filming Locations - Moldovita (North Eastern Carpathians)

                Mid February 2020, after more protests and after the International media was finally offering fair news coverage on the wood mafia in Romania, I decided to go back and get more footage. This time I had to "infiltrate" myself around a group of people who work for the Forest County Council and from there I managed to "open some doors". The majority of people working for this authority are certainly aware of everything that happens but they cannot do much without the proper legislation in hand. The very last few - they cannot say much either because the corrupt system has spread almost like a disease and if they don't get a share, they will know a friend or a relative who does get one; so they do not talk. And even if they do, they would redirect you to a different "branch of thieves", most probably, the nearest "competitor". In simply trying to find out the truth, you will suddenly wake up in a "pointing-fingers" blame game.
                Eventually we managed to meet Tiberiu Bosutar, one of the most eager and well known forest activists in South-East Europe. We had a 3 hours interview meeting in a town called Moldovita; all recorded, but unfortunately, in order to stick with the plans, I will have to extract only the most important information to use in my video. After the official meeting we went together up into the mountains where we filmed 3 of the 5 yet discovered "Tree Stumps Cemeteries" and more deforested areas.



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