A group of philanthropists buys large tracts of land in Romania to create a “European Yellowstone” So far, they have already bought 27,027 hectares in this still wild place, but the objective is to created a gigantic protected space of 200,000 hectares. “This national park has to serve to protect nature, but also to economically develop the areas involved,” says Barbara Promberger, who has lived in a tiny village in the province of Brasov for 30 years.

The Conservation Carpathia Foundation is encountering difficulties in a post-communist country.