Logged wood in the Tarhaus Valley, near the Ghimes-Faget village in the central Transylvania region of Romania. — AFP
VAST gaps in the forest canopy are visible from above Romania’s Carpathian mountains, while stumps studding the ground are reminders of the trees chopped into logs and piled beside dirt roads.
Forest engineer Gabriel Oltean has fought against this intense, often illegal logging with cameras that broadcast live on YouTube the incessant passage of woodcutters’ trucks.
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