The background music is from Romania’s southetn neighbour - Bulgaria. We have the same problem here with the deforestation, unfortunatelly noone gives a shit about it... Good luck, Romania, greetings from Bulgaria❤️🇷🇴🇧🇬
@@TheEston99 same happens in Spain, Germany and everywhere. Sadly in some countries many people don’t care and the people caring are to few and often powerless.
I'm really impressed with Octavian's fight for saving the soil. It's devastating to see what humans have done to nature. :'( Wishing the best of luck to Romanians who are planting trees and vegetation and fighting against expanding landfills, from neighboring Serbia.
@@sebastianbns299 Well nothing, but you're missing the point here. He's just amazed some politicians are actually geniune activists that choose to be good even if their pockets are being hurt.
@@Alex-ll3ig Actually, I only mentioned that I'm from Serbia because I want the best for our region which we all know is facing all kinds of difficulties. I don't think we are (yet) in danger from sand spreading but we do plenty of damage on our own as well.
I'm so glad you made and put this film here, Al Jazeera have a documentary about the devastation of the forests in Romania due to greedy logging companies which is a real eye opener!
Illegal logging is also a HUGE problem in the Balkans. Albania shortly after ww2 had 60% of the country forested, now it’s 19%. And a huge part is western countries dumping their trash there (Italy, Canada, some U.S etc).
@@alb0zfinest I can believe it: as I put the first comment I thought 'but it's happening everywhere!' the worst for me is in Indonesia and the Phillipines where rare and irreplaceable (fragrant) woods are harvested to extinction ... that recent catastrophe in the Himalayas where they take the trees and are putting up DAMS of all things? God, it's so depressing!
@Eugene Vikernua Thanks for this and Hello IKEA! How will we all feel when we can't breathe and have all been washed away? It seems like a logical outcome from all this ... ?
As an annoyed romanian about this problem of deforestation for years I can tell you that not the greedy companies are the main problem but rather the politics and local mayors who are behind this problem. They control both the politics and the companies as members and administrators of these companies. They legally sign the papers and cut the trees with the same hand. But there is some fight aginst deforestation and I hope these methods gets more sophisticated with time.
@@io6027 I went to my local woodland found acorns etc any tree seeds I could find my friend, I made a family trip of it got the kids involved, come home planted seeds in pots then plant them out, onto spare land than is not being used, got a load of apple Trees growing in my yard at the moment ready to be planted out on the next piece of land I find.😉🌲👍🏻😍
Why they should do that if the company's from Austria come in Romania and cut all the forests because the government is very corrupt and let them to do what they want even to falsificate documents which give them the power to cut your own forest if they want! The corruption kills! Everyone is corrup from the government till at the small councils! You can buy and do anything if you have enough money!
@@roxxannn Corruption is everywhere my friend, and if we do nothing about it we won’t have a home called earth 🌍 it’s time to fight back, plant Trees 🌲 it’s fun good exercise and a good hobby. 🌱🌲😍👍🏻
Ca și român, nu știam despre acest lucru și mă întreb oare de ce nu este mediatizată mai mult această problemă, la televizor, la radio etc. Translation: As a Romanian, I didn't know about this and I wonder why isn't this problem in the media more, on TV, on the radio etc.
Din acelasi motiv pentru care diplomele de facultate ies pe banda rulanta in fabrici de incultura...nimic nu e implementat pentru binele cetateanului. Trebuie sa ramanem inculti, ignoranti si stresati, sa cumparam multe electronice in timp ce toate se prabusesc in jurul nostru. Cu masca pe figura.
Se stie demult despre desertificarea. Degeaba , ai vazut ce a zis. Solutia este sa puna pomi. Cine sa puna ? Proprietarii ? aia sunt saraci vai de mama lor. Nu mai are cine, o sa se ajunga la desertificare. Si in Dobrogea este o situatie asemanatoare.
I'm Indian and since 2010 in Bucharest..thank you dw English.. This this true ..I want meet him ..gentlemen doing great job.. Dw TV 📺 always showing out of 🌏earth
Octavian is the most famous environmental activist in Romania. He's not afraid of approaching the issues, in front of the authorities or in front of those who trespass the law. Unfortunately, at present, his activism is still overwhelmed by the hidden interests of those who make money over trespassing environmental laws. Hopefully one day his efforts will pay.
And now the new head of the National Environmental Guard :) stopping the illegal burning of plastic waste at the edge of Bucharest and also stopping waste dumping from other countries into Romania, at the customs. One of the rare cases when a competent, honest person gets a high ranking job in the government.
@@hemingstein4262 indeed. He deserves his place and position. But he is an exception, unfortunately. There are few public servants like him. The large majority of them are different and we both know this situation. :-)
This guy is a hero. Not only does he do what seems impossible but he knows exactly what the solution is. If only more did the same.. how do I do something like that..? Its good to speak out your mind but as I'm sitting comfortably on my couch looking at this, I feel embarrassed. Like I said, this guy is a hero..
Its time to ban plastics in favor of plant based bio-plastic! This would get us halfway in our fight against environmental degradation! Permaculture methods applied would take care of the other half of the problem!
@@ChrisTian-yw7jc I'd agree with o'byran. Permaculture is just the art of bringing land back to a point that's as close to nature as possible. And we can't say nature dosent feed the world! !!
@@chaigasho775 We can very well say that a natural habitat does not feed the world. The current areas are formed by centuries of agriculture, strictly connected to the growth of populations.
@@ChrisTian-yw7jc I said nature. I agree we've messed up much of the planets soil and tree population. But nature is still what grows our food for better or worse.
It was just last week that our sky, here in SW Germany, turned yellow with sand from the Sahara. At first we didn't know what it was. We were out walking with our family and neighbors, but when we got home hubbs looked it up. Our cars and windows were coated in yellow sand!
Germany is now experiencing what we in the Caribbean for the last decade plus. Every it get worst and cause numerous respiratory issues. Climate change is real! The world is sleeping.
the Saharan dust issue has been a common thing in Romania in the last 20 years or so (cant say exactly when since i was born in 2002). but i think sand storms might only get worse if the desertification issue doesnt stop sooner or later...
Wonderful documentary. It's the first time that I hear about this problem and it's really concerning. It's a great thing that DW makes these documentaries helping us to understand better the world :)
you can say what you want about romanians, but the vast majority are honest working people, open minded and culturally well educated, with a very good english knowledge also!
This one hurts a lot! It breaks my heart that my own country has to go through so much ... if only corruption would be eradicated so that we can direct money where it's needed. Our kids won't have a home if we don't wake up and fight for our house!
@Lucid Magic Same here. Seems like there is no way out of this. I guess, deep down, I still hope things will change for better so that I can go back home. Nothing hurts more than to see your home being destroyed and knowing you cannot change anything.
starting last Nov his party [USR] is in the govt coalition, so he is not an opposition politician any longer. They are in position to do even more for the environment... I wish them luck!
Good documentary! Thanks for making this desertification of Romania visible. Hope authorities will start making the environment a priority on their agenda. Well done to Octavian and his team as well to all those involved in supporting and promoting the environment recovery in Romania.
I'm sorry to hear about what has happened in Romania. I hope that more people become more concerned with the climate change issue and start to be more responsible to contribute in aiding the issue.
Yeah, this summer it was as hot as 43C all over the country, I've never experienced that high temperature, it was suffocating, I remember when I was a little kid summer were not as hot about 30C sometimes they were chilly like 21C and winters with temperatures as low as -20C and snow storms up to 40cm of show, now is like 5C in middle of January.
How much wood was illegally cut down for the Austrian companies in Romania? And when the media started talking about it, they just left the country. Leaving full forests gone.
3 days a ago my home country Gambia west Africa was hit with sand storm never seen before and visibility was very very bad, imagine the intense heat in Africa🤔 it was so bad that daylight was gone and the dust covered the whole sky
Please try to show location on the map as well like old times, it made it easier to understand the perspective on large scale...👍 Thank you for keep on posting.
i am romanian and i can say that our politicians allowed foreign companies to cutt down our woods and now the people is paying. stop cutting the forests and regenarete the evil that has been done! Oltenia is facing desertification because of the lack of forests,lack of irrigation and many more. Sometimes I wish as a romanian to be governed by a swede or norwegian,notherners know what to do with they land and resources!
It is the pure passion and high spirits of one man army like Octavian, this planet is still green and alive. Kudos to you gentleman!. Thanks DW, for the excellent story !
Looking at the aerial views , the land is spent due to poor agriculture practices. It will need to go back to native vegetation for many years ! The problem has little to do with climate change.
You're saying that human activity caused the desertification, but it's not climate change? You and 17 idiots who liked your comment need to learn some basic logic skills.
We have challenged the same desertification in Syria and we overcame the task by implanting 40,000 pistachio trees with their unique test around the world... unfortunately when pistachio started flourishing the war started, wishing to save people and trees what are remaining now ...
In my impression, the desert is only in North Africa, the Arabian region and the Mongolian plateau. It will not appear in European countries. This documentary surprised me. I did not expect that desertification would actually threaten the Danube countries. I hope the environmental protection ideals of these volunteers who guard their hometowns from being destroyed by the desert can be realized.
This is far far less about climate change and more about human misintervention and mismanagement. It may be trendy and eye catching to throw the label of “climate change” on the situation, but that’s largely dishonest.
- "This is far far less about climate change and more about human misintervention and mismanagement." And what do you know that from? Because they tell about the "misintervention" and mismanagement on the video. They actually talk about it much more than about the climate change. Because of that, I think the following edited version of your comment would match the reality of the video better: - So this case of desertification seems to be more about human misintervention and mismanagement than the climate change. I thank the makers of the video for finding that out and telling us about it. It would have been trendy and eye catching to just throw the label of “climate change” on the situation, but in accordance with the principles of good journalism, they wanted to find out and convey us the whole picture.
After seeing the whole documentary, I come to a common conclusion.. these documentaries are so good, so eye-opening and so in your face when it comes to the suffering of people and their homelands. Who are we to say that you shouldn't cut down trees to prepare your food or make "drinkable" water, who are we to say don't through your (plastic) garbage in the river and let it flow out into the sea.. is there an alternative? Do they have electricity, gas, water, sanitation, sewage treatment facilities, is there somebody that pick up garbage and sort it out responsibly? Getting by on 2-3 euros a day for a 12 hour hard labour unofficial job is something we all here in a world of comfort, insurances, social Healthcare, fixed prices, steady jobs & income should really think hard about.. Why does this persist in so many countries? Why are all the people condemned to looting thier natural resources? Its sad.. its sad to see so many people think if they scrape out a living by devastating their homeland to give their children an education that it will all work out.. No foreign investment is ever going to happen if 1) the foreign investors are crooks themselves and/or 2) you have to deal with the politions that simply have their own financial agendas.. . Back in the 80's I saw starving children in Afrika on television..30 years later and billions spend on everything under the sun... what changed?.. I praise the good of humanity 🙏.. but I really what i would prefer is those responsible for the delays is to be convicted for long jail sentences. All the people, all the animals big and small, insects, and all affected should at some point win over greedy money loving pigs..
Romania made it to the high-income group of countries, with a gross national income (GNI) per capita of USD 12,630 in 2019, up from USD 11,290 in 2018 (current exchange rates), the World Bank announced. ... Romania ranks as the last of the high-income countries by GNI per capita, and the group is quite diverse.Jul 6, 2020
Unfortunately there are many people that turn their backs when you try to raise awareness towards the effects of climate change. For example I'm a Master's Degree student in Cluj-Napoca Romania and two classmates and I decided to make a small project about this phenomenon that we presented it at a conference in november.. We used Remote Sensing to show the decrease in plants quality and overal soil humidity in the southern region of Romania only that so a Climatology professor that assisted the conference to yell at us that our research is fake and we manipulated the data just because she's from southern Romania and haven't seen any desertification and that there are no real effects of the climate change xD.. I'm happy that this documentary shows the effects that even some "experts" are denying :)
''''There is a higher principle in life, than just making money,''''' the eco system is our real treasure, thanks Octavian and supporters, you help to give us hope
Perhaps when this tiring pandemic is finally, totally under control and people can travel again, Romania will open its door (again) to green tourists who are willing to work for environmentalists like Octavian. There is a group, a worldwide movement called WWOOF, that links international travelers to farmers that offer the opportunity to work with them in exchange for room and board. During my service as a flight attendant for Norwegian Air Long Haul, I had many overnights in London and got to meet and make friends with some of the nicest folks in the hotel industry there who came from Romania. I'm glad to say that they are now among my best friends. From Pennsylvania, USA I am sending folks in Romania so much love.
This is happening now for almost a decade in Brazilian sugar cane plantation fields... The owners of the land really do not care. The impact of making fuel for cars via ethanol from plants is absurd. Not only makes the soil nutrient poor, but also the fertilizers used in astronomical scales are polluting the rivers and creeks and the water bodies around those plantations. The warnings are there! You just need to take a walk inside those plantations to see it.
It is very important to preserve the nature for us and for future generations, for their lives not to be worse than they should. As one of my teachers said, we have not inherited the nature from our ancestors, but we have borrowed it from our children.
Okay, I can understand everything, but to plant an invasive tree species (black locust - called acacia in this video), that I don't understand. I mean, maybe once in the future they decide to restore the natural vegetation in this area (various types of oak woodland) - black locust would be almost impossible to eradicate... Planting mono-cultures of trees does not make a forest - forest is far more than that.
Perhaps you were not listening to the narrative. The acacias are a temporary measure to allow the soil and the vegetation to be restored. Once that happens the acacias will be replaced. The native trees do not thrive in the current conditions.
@@sporo2000 I admit I missed that part. Nevertheless, black locust would be very very hard to replace once it's got established. You can cut it, you can even dig it out, but it will sprout from any remaining roots for decades after the original tree has been cut. I live just across the border, in Serbia, I know what I am talking about. Quercus pubescens (downy oak) and Quercus robur (English oak) should do okay in the sands - they grow on send dunes here in Serbia in areas adjacent to Romania. I'm afraid black locust is there to stay, forever.
A very interesting report. What I do not understand, DW, is why do you use Bulgarian folk music in a Romanian-only and -based report? While there are some cultural similarities between Romania and Bulgaria, the folk music is generally different and distinct, even in the region of Wallachia. Why, DW, don't you contact a cultural expert to find out, so you can show some cultural sensitivity?
Why can't you be generous with the cultural , regional music. The music is not used here to make money but to add value to the problems we all face as human beings. You should feel happy if u r a Bulgarian. For an Asian like me, it really doesn't matter.
Hundreds of trees will drop thousands of leaves for regeneration of soil. Grass doesn't grow where there is shade from trees. Trees create shade that protects moisture in ground. All organic waste can be turned in to the ground where trees and other plants grow. All plants protect the ground by creating shade that protects the soil.
The background music is from Romania’s southetn neighbour - Bulgaria. We have the same problem here with the deforestation, unfortunatelly noone gives a shit about it... Good luck, Romania, greetings from Bulgaria❤️🇷🇴🇧🇬
Goodluck to You as well, hope to see better days for both our countries as we have so much potential.🇧🇬🇷🇴
Same happens in Serbia, government just decides to cut trees in cities and forests.
wait.... we dont have desertification right?
@@TheEston99 same happens in Spain, Germany and everywhere. Sadly in some countries many people don’t care and the people caring are to few and often powerless.
Love Bulgaria from Romania
I'm really impressed with Octavian's fight for saving the soil. It's devastating to see what humans have done to nature. :'( Wishing the best of luck to Romanians who are planting trees and vegetation and fighting against expanding landfills, from neighboring Serbia.
Thank you!
@@sebastianbns299 Well nothing, but you're missing the point here. He's just amazed some politicians are actually geniune activists that choose to be good even if their pockets are being hurt.
@@sebastianbns299 the sand goes up the flow of the Danube River , in near future this may come to neighbouring countries , the first in is Serbia.
@@Alex-ll3ig Actually, I only mentioned that I'm from Serbia because I want the best for our region which we all know is facing all kinds of difficulties. I don't think we are (yet) in danger from sand spreading but we do plenty of damage on our own as well.
Reading this again I think he's saying he is from Serbia.
I'm so glad you made and put this film here, Al Jazeera have a documentary about the devastation of the forests in Romania due to greedy logging companies which is a real eye opener!
Illegal logging is also a HUGE problem in the Balkans. Albania shortly after ww2 had 60% of the country forested, now it’s 19%. And a huge part is western countries dumping their trash there (Italy, Canada, some U.S etc).
@@alb0zfinest I can believe it: as I put the first comment I thought 'but it's happening everywhere!' the worst for me is in Indonesia and the Phillipines where rare and irreplaceable (fragrant) woods are harvested to extinction ... that recent catastrophe in the Himalayas where they take the trees and are putting up DAMS of all things? God, it's so depressing!
@Eugene Vikernua Thanks for this and Hello IKEA! How will we all feel when we can't breathe and have all been washed away? It seems like a logical outcome from all this ... ?
As an annoyed romanian about this problem of deforestation for years I can tell you that not the greedy companies are the main problem but rather the politics and local mayors who are behind this problem. They control both the politics and the companies as members and administrators of these companies. They legally sign the papers and cut the trees with the same hand. But there is some fight aginst deforestation and I hope these methods gets more sophisticated with time.
Do you have the link ?
Plant 🌱 as many Trees 🌲 as you can folks, I’m a Guerrilla Gardener from the U.K. planting Trees on any land I find. 😉👍🏻
Got any tips? We got a problem with deforestation here in the south bit of Michigan’s southern peninsula
@@io6027 I went to my local woodland found acorns etc any tree seeds I could find my friend, I made a family trip of it got the kids involved, come home planted seeds in pots then plant them out, onto spare land than is not being used, got a load of apple Trees growing in my yard at the moment ready to be planted out on the next piece of land I find.😉🌲👍🏻😍
Why they should do that if the company's from Austria come in Romania and cut all the forests because the government is very corrupt and let them to do what they want even to falsificate documents which give them the power to cut your own forest if they want! The corruption kills! Everyone is corrup from the government till at the small councils! You can buy and do anything if you have enough money!
Great job
@@roxxannn Corruption is everywhere my friend, and if we do nothing about it we won’t have a home called earth 🌍 it’s time to fight back, plant Trees 🌲 it’s fun good exercise and a good hobby. 🌱🌲😍👍🏻
frumos documentarul si Doamne ajuta ca exista oameni ca tine. This man makes me proud that im a Romanian.
Just remember that the African Sahara was vast green areas, plains, rivers and forests before 6000 years ago!
True, Jason got his fleece the same way...
You can trust what they say only the creator of the heavens and earth knows such
@@abdirahmanjama7481
And the people who sold you or to your parents this religion.
Yes but then was a veritable ice age in Europe...
@@jacktriper4788 it ended in Europe about 13,000 years ago
Ca și român, nu știam despre acest lucru și mă întreb oare de ce nu este mediatizată mai mult această problemă, la televizor, la radio etc.
Translation: As a Romanian, I didn't know about this and I wonder why isn't this problem in the media more, on TV, on the radio etc.
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Din acelasi motiv pentru care diplomele de facultate ies pe banda rulanta in fabrici de incultura...nimic nu e implementat pentru binele cetateanului. Trebuie sa ramanem inculti, ignoranti si stresati, sa cumparam multe electronice in timp ce toate se prabusesc in jurul nostru. Cu masca pe figura.
Pentru ca subiecte ca acestea nu atrag audiența
Se stie demult despre desertificarea. Degeaba , ai vazut ce a zis. Solutia este sa puna pomi. Cine sa puna ? Proprietarii ? aia sunt saraci vai de mama lor. Nu mai are cine, o sa se ajunga la desertificare. Si in Dobrogea este o situatie asemanatoare.
Nu arată la Acces Direct chestii d-astea. Încearcă și alte emisiuni. Problema e cunoscută de oamenii care știu pe ce planetă trăiesc.
Octavian has a heart of eden I firmly believe his passion and determination can transform any desert to eden the garden of life bravo brother...
He's my hero that protect the environment
he is now the chief of the national environment guard, so he really has some claws now
byth 2xLKW with garbage -mtl,aluminium,iron,etc made 60.000 Euro...Imagine how much money he just saved
I'm Indian and since 2010 in Bucharest..thank you dw English.. This this true ..I want meet him ..gentlemen doing great job..
Dw TV 📺 always showing out of 🌏earth
Until the last trees have been wiped out and until the last ocean has been polluted only then we realize that we cannot eat money.
Very very very true.
@@ymeekins6357 You must have never dipped a $100 Bill in A1 Sauce, & chased it with Caviar on your yacht.
Octavian is the most famous environmental activist in Romania. He's not afraid of approaching the issues, in front of the authorities or in front of those who trespass the law. Unfortunately, at present, his activism is still overwhelmed by the hidden interests of those who make money over trespassing environmental laws. Hopefully one day his efforts will pay.
And now the new head of the National Environmental Guard :) stopping the illegal burning of plastic waste at the edge of Bucharest and also stopping waste dumping from other countries into Romania, at the customs.
One of the rare cases when a competent, honest person gets a high ranking job in the government.
@@hemingstein4262 indeed. He deserves his place and position. But he is an exception, unfortunately. There are few public servants like him. The large majority of them are different and we both know this situation. :-)
I wish we had more politicians like Octavian. Massive respect to him and DW as always you never fail to impress me with your quality stuff :) .
It comes from love for one's country
This guy is a hero. Not only does he do what seems impossible but he knows exactly what the solution is. If only more did the same.. how do I do something like that..? Its good to speak out your mind but as I'm sitting comfortably on my couch looking at this, I feel embarrassed. Like I said, this guy is a hero..
Its time to ban plastics in favor of plant based bio-plastic! This would get us halfway in our fight against environmental degradation! Permaculture methods applied would take care of the other half of the problem!
Best stop buying phones or laptops for making these comments then!
Permaculture doesn't feed the world.
@@ChrisTian-yw7jc I'd agree with o'byran. Permaculture is just the art of bringing land back to a point that's as close to nature as possible. And we can't say nature dosent feed the world! !!
@@chaigasho775 We can very well say that a natural habitat does not feed the world. The current areas are formed by centuries of agriculture, strictly connected to the growth of populations.
@@ChrisTian-yw7jc I said nature. I agree we've messed up much of the planets soil and tree population. But nature is still what grows our food for better or worse.
DW DOCUMENTARIES ARE ALWAYS WORTH WATCHING
It was just last week that our sky, here in SW Germany, turned yellow with sand from the Sahara. At first we didn't know what it was. We were out walking with our family and neighbors, but when we got home hubbs looked it up. Our cars and windows were coated in yellow sand!
the Jet Stream is going crazy
Yeah, i was going to blame builders for the dust. Weather now free range in Europe..
Germany is now experiencing what we in the Caribbean for the last decade plus. Every it get worst and cause numerous respiratory issues. Climate change is real! The world is sleeping.
the Saharan dust issue has been a common thing in Romania in the last 20 years or so (cant say exactly when since i was born in 2002). but i think sand storms might only get worse if the desertification issue doesnt stop sooner or later...
Wonderful documentary. It's the first time that I hear about this problem and it's really concerning. It's a great thing that DW makes these documentaries helping us to understand better the world :)
Daca esti interesata, Greenpeace Romania si Declic au petitii fix pe tema aceasta (si poti si dona daca vrei)
Hi @Ana Georgescu, thanks for watching!
you can say what you want about romanians, but the vast majority are honest working people, open minded and culturally well educated, with a very good english knowledge also!
This one hurts a lot! It breaks my heart that my own country has to go through so much ... if only corruption would be eradicated so that we can direct money where it's needed. Our kids won't have a home if we don't wake up and fight for our house!
@Lucid Magic Same here. Seems like there is no way out of this. I guess, deep down, I still hope things will change for better so that I can go back home. Nothing hurts more than to see your home being destroyed and knowing you cannot change anything.
starting last Nov his party [USR] is in the govt coalition, so he is not an opposition politician any longer. They are in position to do even more for the environment... I wish them luck!
salvatorii pulii cu ideologii de la hollywood. cine pune botul la USR o sa si-o ia mai tare decat de la cei care au fost pana acum.
@@PartidulIndezirabililorSociali Free Dragnea si Go for Putin, nu? esti tare, ca untu' la soare, ca fularu', ca mustiucu' care-l scuturi dimineata...
Good documentary! Thanks for making this desertification of Romania visible. Hope authorities will start making the environment a priority on their agenda.
Well done to Octavian and his team as well to all those involved in supporting and promoting the environment recovery in Romania.
May brave and intelligent people like Octavian always have the help they need 🙏
I'm sorry to hear about what has happened in Romania. I hope that more people become more concerned with the climate change issue and start to be more responsible to contribute in aiding the issue.
🇰🇷 ?
Yeah, this summer it was as hot as 43C all over the country, I've never experienced that high temperature, it was suffocating, I remember when I was a little kid summer were not as hot about 30C sometimes they were chilly like 21C and winters with temperatures as low as -20C and snow storms up to 40cm of show, now is like 5C in middle of January.
How much wood was illegally cut down for the Austrian companies in Romania? And when the media started talking about it, they just left the country. Leaving full forests gone.
3 days a ago my home country Gambia west Africa was hit with sand storm never seen before and visibility was very very bad, imagine the intense heat in Africa🤔 it was so bad that daylight was gone and the dust covered the whole sky
Why the name rockefeller?!
Please try to show location on the map as well like old times, it made it easier to understand the perspective on large scale...👍
Thank you for keep on posting.
Watching from Kenya🇰🇪🇰🇪
Plant 🌱 as many Tress as you can my friend. 😉👍🏻
Hello from Romania
So sad 😞. Love from across the sea 🇬🇪✝️🇬🇪
i am romanian and i can say that our politicians allowed foreign companies to cutt down our woods and now the people is paying. stop cutting the forests and regenarete the evil that has been done! Oltenia is facing desertification because of the lack of forests,lack of irrigation and many more. Sometimes I wish as a romanian to be governed by a swede or norwegian,notherners know what to do with they land and resources!
Maybe they may give a contact number before I visit Romania , and eventually I can support their work to protect the trees from growing desert there
You can find him and a contact number on facebook. Search for Octavian Berceanu
Felicitari, Octavian!
DW for the win. Good job guys.
It is the pure passion and high spirits of one man army like Octavian, this planet is still green and alive. Kudos to you gentleman!. Thanks DW, for the excellent story !
felicitari Octavian!
Who are these weirdos who dislike videos? 🧐 mind boggling.
Once they saw these garbage dumps they decided to turn it off.
Hungarians
US Republicans
@@notimeforspace2477 the same shithole that basically owns america, americas in a debt trap to a shithole country, sad LOL
Just a wild guess - MONSANTO/BAYER - so that there is a food shortage so that we buy their GMO seeds....
I was diving past the Karnobat region going to Burgas, Bulgaria, and thought I was driving past the Siera Nevada.
This was inspiring. There are so many great people among us. Thanks for the video!
Looking at the aerial views , the land is spent due to poor agriculture practices. It will need to go back to native vegetation for many years ! The problem has little to do with climate change.
You're saying that human activity caused the desertification, but it's not climate change? You and 17 idiots who liked your comment need to learn some basic logic skills.
He's my hero. Just do a right thing for our society
We have challenged the same desertification in Syria and we overcame the task by implanting 40,000 pistachio trees with their unique test around the world... unfortunately when pistachio started flourishing the war started, wishing to save people and trees what are remaining now ...
God bless our Olănești earth
In my impression, the desert is only in North Africa, the Arabian region and the Mongolian plateau. It will not appear in European countries. This documentary surprised me. I did not expect that desertification would actually threaten the Danube countries. I hope the environmental protection ideals of these volunteers who guard their hometowns from being destroyed by the desert can be realized.
All the power too Octavian and greetings from Canada 🇨🇦
Octavian will soon be the new Chief of the Environment Agency of Romania. So, good news. He will have the power and influence to do what is necessary.
This is far far less about climate change and more about human misintervention and mismanagement. It may be trendy and eye catching to throw the label of “climate change” on the situation, but that’s largely dishonest.
- "This is far far less about climate change and more about human misintervention and mismanagement."
And what do you know that from? Because they tell about the "misintervention" and mismanagement on the video. They actually talk about it much more than about the climate change. Because of that, I think the following edited version of your comment would match the reality of the video better:
- So this case of desertification seems to be more about human misintervention and mismanagement than the climate change. I thank the makers of the video for finding that out and telling us about it. It would have been trendy and eye catching to just throw the label of “climate change” on the situation, but in accordance with the principles of good journalism, they wanted to find out and convey us the whole picture.
It's just a coincidence that the same issues exist across southern Europe? Nope, climate change is real and a major factor in the problem seen here.
Very important documentary by DW about climate change, so that our world can become Green Again.
Hope government See's this to adapt. Thanks🌹🙏
Hi @Anto Peters, thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts!
After seeing the whole documentary, I come to a common conclusion.. these documentaries are so good, so eye-opening and so in your face when it comes to the suffering of people and their homelands. Who are we to say that you shouldn't cut down trees to prepare your food or make "drinkable" water, who are we to say don't through your (plastic) garbage in the river and let it flow out into the sea.. is there an alternative? Do they have electricity, gas, water, sanitation, sewage treatment facilities, is there somebody that pick up garbage and sort it out responsibly? Getting by on 2-3 euros a day for a 12 hour hard labour unofficial job is something we all here in a world of comfort, insurances, social Healthcare, fixed prices, steady jobs & income should really think hard about.. Why does this persist in so many countries? Why are all the people condemned to looting thier natural resources? Its sad.. its sad to see so many people think if they scrape out a living by devastating their homeland to give their children an education that it will all work out.. No foreign investment is ever going to happen if 1) the foreign investors are crooks themselves and/or 2) you have to deal with the politions that simply have their own financial agendas.. . Back in the 80's I saw starving children in Afrika on television..30 years later and billions spend on everything under the sun... what changed?.. I praise the good of humanity 🙏.. but I really what i would prefer is those responsible for the delays is to be convicted for long jail sentences. All the people, all the animals big and small, insects, and all affected should at some point win over greedy money loving pigs..
Romania made it to the high-income group of countries, with a gross national income (GNI) per capita of USD 12,630 in 2019, up from USD 11,290 in 2018 (current exchange rates), the World Bank announced. ... Romania ranks as the last of the high-income countries by GNI per capita, and the group is quite diverse.Jul 6, 2020
Unfortunately there are many people that turn their backs when you try to raise awareness towards the effects of climate change. For example I'm a Master's Degree student in Cluj-Napoca Romania and two classmates and I decided to make a small project about this phenomenon that we presented it at a conference in november.. We used Remote Sensing to show the decrease in plants quality and overal soil humidity in the southern region of Romania only that so a Climatology professor that assisted the conference to yell at us that our research is fake and we manipulated the data just because she's from southern Romania and haven't seen any desertification and that there are no real effects of the climate change xD.. I'm happy that this documentary shows the effects that even some "experts" are denying :)
''''There is a higher principle in life, than just making money,''''' the eco system is
our real treasure, thanks Octavian and supporters, you help to give us hope
My prayers for Sir Octavian , his supporters and their dreams for nature preservation. Let there be more of their likes.
Damn man my high school was in Rovinari and i didnt knew abt the decertification problem there thanks for bringing light to the problem
We all need to help one another to start planting lotsa green, 👍🙏
Băiatul de la inceput nu e de la Garda de Mediu (din clipul Recorder)?
a fost pus seful garzii de mediu acum 2 saptamani.
Thank DW channel about your documentary films.... I love your films, it's very stunning, and your reporting very excellent.
Thank you so much ❤❤❤❤
Hi @Hitham Thabet, we are glad you enjoy our documentaries, thanks for the positive feedback :)
You are welcome, but this is the truth, you are the best channel
We are on your side! You are not alone
Perhaps when this tiring pandemic is finally, totally under control and people can travel again, Romania will open its door (again) to green tourists who are willing to work for environmentalists like Octavian. There is a group, a worldwide movement called WWOOF, that links international travelers to farmers that offer the opportunity to work with them in exchange for room and board. During my service as a flight attendant for Norwegian Air Long Haul, I had many overnights in London and got to meet and make friends with some of the nicest folks in the hotel industry there who came from Romania. I'm glad to say that they are now among my best friends. From Pennsylvania, USA I am sending folks in Romania so much love.
👏👏 that's called true calling to make one's life purposeful and leave a legacy behind.
Nice documentary
Respect Romania 🇷🇴 Frate, Isus Christos , sa te binecuvanteze. ! Sănătate și putere de munca. Oamenii ca tine are nevoie Romania și lumea.
Acum a ajuns unde trebuie. Este seful garzii de mediu
Mai taci cu cristosii tai 😅😅😅
He's now Chief of the National Environmental Guard 👍🏻
the man is an inspiration
They need to watch The Green Gold docu, about regreening the desert by Permaculture principles. John Dennis Liu 💚
Or George Lawton.
Yes. There are options to bring it back to life. All is needed is be put in practice.
Actually we have soluțions since comunism regime but politiciana thry dont care
Thank you DW! ❤️
This is happening now for almost a decade in Brazilian sugar cane plantation fields... The owners of the land really do not care. The impact of making fuel for cars via ethanol from plants is absurd. Not only makes the soil nutrient poor, but also the fertilizers used in astronomical scales are polluting the rivers and creeks and the water bodies around those plantations. The warnings are there! You just need to take a walk inside those plantations to see it.
It is very important to preserve the nature for us and for future generations, for their lives not to be worse than they should. As one of my teachers said, we have not inherited the nature from our ancestors, but we have borrowed it from our children.
meanwhile, in Jakarta Indonesia slowly sinking the mother nature really try to speak with us by giving a signal.
Huh? What happened there?
Arent areas sinking faster because they are sucking up too much ground water which is collapsing the earth?
@@complexaltruist true and the water underground can't be refilled because there is so many concrete buildings separating the soil from the rain water
@@SikhoGuwa does the government on any level want to invest in desalination plants? Or even water vapor condensers?
@@complexaltruist don't know
Watching from 🇨🇦
You would not have this problem, do not worry
Desert:aight imma slide through Romania
Octavian:
Desert: I don't feel so well
Do you get the fallen leaves in autumn from the cities for mulch ?
I am Coming to Bucharest by April end
Nothing good to you,here in Romania !!Is better do not come!Stay in your country!
Please don't, you'll work like a slave for bad wages, something that you do in India anyway.
More vegetation, more clouds, more power.
1:15 - Why are you playing the Bulgarian Folk song "Prituri se planinata" in the background of a video about Romania?
Correction: "Save Romania" is part of the current coalition government. (After December elections.) This was filmed and likely edited last year.
save romania is just the worst thing in our parliament
Fantastically! It’s very real! I would like to know exactly the names of the places!
Whatch it with subtitles and then you will see 😉👍
Marsani ,Daneti pana la Dunare in Dabuleni
Fantastic👍
**Unde este acel desert din Romania?**
god bless Octavian. You are a hero.
keep up the good fight!
We all should try to save Romanian nature
Why don’t they plant trees around the area?
You cut down your forest. The soil can't hold water. You get desert. It's not climate change. It's poor land management.
No way that's a coincidence I want become a guerilla Gardener. I'm planning as we speak.
Soil shielding. (9:49)
18:00 Opportunity.
What a hero 🙏
Everyone should pitch in to save their environments
So knowledgeable
We have an old saying in Romanian folklore: " He who has not planted at least one tree in his life time has lived in vain "
Our elders were right
We all have responsibilities to plant sustainable trees. 🤔 100 per person
Yes it's our duty for the betterment of the future generations...
Literally 1 tree is enough
Okay, I can understand everything, but to plant an invasive tree species (black locust - called acacia in this video), that I don't understand. I mean, maybe once in the future they decide to restore the natural vegetation in this area (various types of oak woodland) - black locust would be almost impossible to eradicate... Planting mono-cultures of trees does not make a forest - forest is far more than that.
Perhaps you were not listening to the narrative. The acacias are a temporary measure to allow the soil and the vegetation to be restored. Once that happens the acacias will be replaced. The native trees do not thrive in the current conditions.
@@sporo2000 I admit I missed that part. Nevertheless, black locust would be very very hard to replace once it's got established. You can cut it, you can even dig it out, but it will sprout from any remaining roots for decades after the original tree has been cut. I live just across the border, in Serbia, I know what I am talking about. Quercus pubescens (downy oak) and Quercus robur (English oak) should do okay in the sands - they grow on send dunes here in Serbia in areas adjacent to Romania. I'm afraid black locust is there to stay, forever.
Inspiring
After the december revolution, it was absolutly necesary to destroy the irigation sistem, was it not?
Money should be used in this kind of area, instead of playing stock games.
A very interesting report. What I do not understand, DW, is why do you use Bulgarian folk music in a Romanian-only and -based report? While there are some cultural similarities between Romania and Bulgaria, the folk music is generally different and distinct, even in the region of Wallachia. Why, DW, don't you contact a cultural expert to find out, so you can show some cultural sensitivity?
That's exactly what I was wondering!
Why can't you be generous with the cultural , regional music. The music is not used here to make money but to add value to the problems we all face as human beings. You should feel happy if u r a Bulgarian. For an Asian like me, it really doesn't matter.
@@samanthamasters5015 All the power to you! In fact, I am Romanian, fyi.
That was Bulgarian land for a long time before the fake Romanian map of the 1860s look into it
Hundreds of trees will drop thousands of leaves for regeneration of soil. Grass doesn't grow where there is shade from trees. Trees create shade that protects moisture in ground. All organic waste can be turned in to the ground where trees and other plants grow. All plants protect the ground by creating shade that protects the soil.
Not only does he have to deal with corrupt officials, he also has to deal with greedy businessmen.
The little Walachia is the Great Oltenia :) I miss the Dabuleni water melons, those little dark green ones not the striped ones...
Deforetization and dumping carbage, what has that got to do with climat change
The song at 12:50 is Bulgarian not Romanian. You can clearly hear the lyrics are in Bulgarian.
Congrats good people. Chapeau
You cannot fight the desert, but you can work for the forest!