On October, 8th, in Brussels, Apuseni Nature Park will be one of the 22 places in Europe that will receive the award of "European Destinations of Excellence". A 3 minutes presentation movie, sponsored by the European Commission, will be presented at the Brussels awards. The movie will be presented on www.edenineurope.eu and will be used by the National Park for advertising activities. Of course, Apuseni Mountains will have a page on edenineurope.eu website and will be included in the European Destinations of Excellence network.
In 2008, Romania's European Destinations of Excellence was Horezu, a place famous for its pottery You can see the presentation movie here
Apuseni Nature Park, situated in the Central-North-Western part of Apuseni Mountains, covers a big part of Bihor Mts (South) and Vlădeasa Massif (North).
the main beauty of this area is the karstic formations, with caves, gorges, defiles or karstic plateaus. Outstanding are Scărişoara Glacier, the biggest underground glacier in Romania, Ponor Fortress (Cetaţile Ponorului) or Coiba Mare cave.
Still a lot has to be done for nature protection here, wood traffic has to be stopped and local authorities would better do something about illegal building in Padiş area. Fines are way to small for illegal building and many seem to prefer paying the fines or bribing "the right guys" in order to be able to build. And so we have monstrous buildings in many national parks in Romania, although it is forbidden by law.
One of the problems is legislation that allowed entire forests being given back to old owners (before 1947) and cut down by those. For trying to sell 90 meters of wood (estimated to a market price of about 2200 Eur) owner of a guest-house was fined ...50 Euro.
I hope including Apuseni Nature Park in the list of destinations of excellence will also bring some strict regulations and a surveiilance from European Commission's side.
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