The destruction of valuable Natura 2000 forests in the Romanian Carpathians continues unabated despite ongoing infringement proceedings by the EU Commission against the Romanian government. The EuroNatur Foundation (Germany), together with the environmental organizations ROBIN WOOD, Agent Green (Romania) and Fern (Belgium), are therefore calling on the EU Commission to speed up the process that began in 2020 and to bring the case to the European Court of Justice. In order to emphasize their demands, representatives of an alliance of seven forest conservation organizations submitted their demands to the European Commission in Brussels together with the short film we created “An Artistic Act to Act”. The film symbolically shows how the EU’s old growth and natural forests are being buried and criticizes the poor enforcement of Natura 2000 legislation.
