Foundation Conservation Carpathia

The Foundation Conservation Carpathia (FCC) is a non-profit organization established in 2009 by a group of 12 philanthropists and conservationists. The foundation's mission is to conserve and restore the natural ecosystems of the Carpathian Mountains for the benefit of biodiversity and local communities. This is achieved by acquiring, protecting, and managing forests and natural grasslands.

Since its inception, FCC has purchased over 26,900 hectares of forests and alpine meadows in the southeastern Carpathians for restoration and full protection. The foundation has also stopped illegal logging in the neighboring forests, covering an area of over 75,000 hectares.

In addition to protection efforts, FCC has restored more than 1,991 hectares of clear-cuts, alpine pastures, and spruce monocultures. They have planted over 4.1 million saplings, created 9 tree nurseries, and conducted erosion control works on over 30 km of former tractor tracks.

The ultimate goal of FCC is to create Europe's largest forested National Park, which would be a world-class wilderness reserve in the Southern Romanian Carpathians, large enough to support significant numbers of large carnivores and to allow evolutionary processes to happen.

Mysterious Transylvania

Gothic cemetery in Transylvania – eerie crypts and tombstones

Gothic cemetery, Transylvania

Transylvania is surrounded by densely forested mountains of the Carpathians like a huge castle created by nature. This region is home to medieval towns and unspoilt villages.

But behind this idyllic facade lies a dark secret that terrifies the locals. For Transylvania is also home to vampires, the sinister creatures of the night that feed on the blood of the living.

What sounds like fantasy and fiction is actually a real place, a region in central Romania. In the Transylvanian forests, there are secrets and magic that seem to be out of this world. Faint lights glow between the trees, eerie, whispering voices can be heard on the wind. Travellers who have ventured too deep into the forest have never been seen again…

The Gothic cemeteries full of eerie crypts and tombs may harbour the remains of undead creatures. The mysterious and magical symbols on the tombstones show the fear of the population and their attempt to block the path of the sinister, cruel beings into our world.

Nature conservation, climate protection, preservation and expansion of the original flora and fauna of Transylvania

Nature conservation and climate protection in Transylvania

Nature conservation project, Transylvania

You are supporting a special nature and animal conservation project in Transylvania. We plant native deciduous trees – original tree species such as robinia, oak and maple. We are actively committed to the protection of flora and fauna. The land for our land donations may not be used commercially.

This means that trees, shrubs, grasses, flowers, herbs, mosses and fungi can develop undisturbed. At the same time, the fauna also develops with numerous different species: Insects, reptiles, amphibians as well as small mammals and birds find a safe habitat here.

The property's own spring and the stream on the property round off this habitat. They provide undisturbed access for all the fauna from the surrounding area and the opportunity to obtain fresh, clear spring and mountain water. This is particularly important during the long, hot and dry Transylvanian summers.

Roe deer, deer, foxes, wild boar, badgers, martens, frogs, toads and amphibians, small rodents and reptiles such as lizards and slow worms from the surrounding woodland areas make use of this opportunity and regularly visit the fresh water source.

This project actively contributes to the preservation and expansion of valuable ecosystems.

Foundation Conservation Carpathia

Mysterious Transylvania

Nature conservation, climate protection, preservation and expansion of the original flora and fauna of Transylvania

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