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'Bears' from Bieszczady Mountains take matters into their paws
- People dressed as bears fight for one of the last safe places for this animal to live in Poland / Photo: Wild Carpathians Initiative
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Banner with the words 'Eco terrorists away. We want to live and work in peace '
- Most of the local community lives off forest management and treats environmental activists as enemies / Photo: Wild Carpathians Initiative
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Banner with the words 'The threat is man - not nature - not for the Turnicki National Park'
- Inhabitants of mountain villages are afraid that they will lose their jobs after the creation of the Turnicki National Park / Photo: Wild Carpathians Initiative
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Carpathian Forest
- This forest is characterized by high densities and landscape connectivity, and a large part of it is close to natural / Photo: Wild Carpathians Initiative
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Skid trails reducing the retention capacity of the Carpathian Forest
- Skid trails, including recently built paved roads with drainage ditches, drastically accelerate the runoff of water from mountain slopes, preventing its retention in the soil. The result of this accelerated runoff is rapid flooding in the valleys of mountain streams and the lower parts of the catchment area, increasing the risk of flooding in riverside localities / Photo: Wild Carpathians Initiative
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'Fir of shame'
- As part of the happening, a fragment of fir with monumental dimensions (3m in circumference) recently cut in the Carpathian Forest was brought to the seat of the Regional Directorate for Environmental Protection in Krosno / Photo: M. Klemens
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National protest
- On September 29, 2020, a protest was swept across Poland under the slogan "We will not give the Bieszczady back to saws." 17 Polish cities, 17 seats of the State Forests, where letters with postulates were sent and hundreds of people who came to express their indignation at the destruction of the Carpathian Forest / Photo: Wild Carpathians Initiative
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National protest
- On September 29, 2020, in all places of the protest, those gathered brought symbolic postcards from the Bieszczady Mountains, showing the scale of damage caused by forest management in this area. The signatures collected on them are to be sent to the new Minister of the Environment as a commitment to take action on the Carpathian Forest / Photo: Wild Carpathians Initiative
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blockade
- In August 2020, the entrance to the headquarters Stuposiany Forest District was blocked, where activists from the Wild Carpathians Initiative fastened themselves to the barriers with metal pipes / Photo: Wild Carpathians Initiative
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Hammock protest
- In August 2020, parallel to the blockade of the headquarters of the Stuposiany Forest District, a hammock protest was conducted at the site of the planned logging / Photo: Wild Carpathians Initiative
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'Skyblock'
- Platforms suspended between trees, under which it is impossible to drive without breaking the rope at the site of the planned logging in the area of the planned Turnicki National Park / Photo: Wild Carpathians Initiative
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'Destruction of Wildlife' Monument in Warsaw
- A cut tree with monumental dimensions - a symbol of the destruction of the Carpathian Forest - in the Youth Climate Strike camp in front of the Palace of Culture and Science in the center of Warsaw (September 2019) / Photo: Wild Carpathians Initiative
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Tent camp
- A several-month-long strike of the Wild Carpathians Initiative at the site of intensive deforestation in the planned Turnicki National Park (since 25 April, 2021) / Photo: Wild Carpathians Initiative
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Attack on activists
- On May 21, 2021, there was an attack on the Wild Carpathians Initiative tent camp where the activists were blocking the felling of trees in the planned Turnicki National Park. One of the masked attackers had a baseball bat. A female activist was injured and a car was destroyed / Photo: Wild Carpathians Initiative