Brussels wants Bucharest to tackle its illegal logging problem, but the country’s politicians are devoting much of their energy to blaming each other. The European Commission launched an infringement ...

Almost 30 percent of Romania is forest—something I didn’t know until this week. Five percent of this is designated as primary forest, the highest level for biodiversity and carbon capture. There are ...

Romania has Europe’s last tract of primary forest that’s large enough to retain its original levels of biodiversity. An average of 62 reported cases of illegal logging are reported every day, with ...

Two journalists and an environmental activist have been beaten up by suspected illegal loggers in a forest in northeastern Romania while making a documentary about illicit deforestation, authorities ...

WWF is concerned that politics stands in the way of conservation and community welfare WWF is concerned that the debate on the new Forest Code in Romania focuses on the economic exploitation of ...

A group of European NGOs filed a complaint Tuesday with the European Commission against the Romanian government over what they say is illegal logging in the country's old growth and primeval forests.

In the past 19 years, Romania has lost as much forest land as other countries have lost in the whole of the last century. Such an abrupt and catastrophic loss made it an absolute imperative that the ...