Almost 30 percent of Romania is forest—something I didn’t know until this week. Five percent of this is designated as primary forest, the highest level for biodiversity and carbon capture. There are reckoned to be 618 million metric tons of carbon in this huge biomass. This seems to me a lot. And the country contains two-thirds of Europe’s temperate forests. This makes the country a serious hedge against the climate crisis; the temperature in one forest outside of Bucharest is regularly at least 10 degrees lower than in the Romanian capital.
Some of these forests are said to be haunted, most notably Hoia Baciu in Transylvania, which…
