Camera traps
Have you wondered how we get all the footage of the animals in our videos? The secret is camera traps, remote devices setup to detect animals which pass in front of it, using motion...
The Red Deer
Red Deer are important shapers of the landscape, from lowland valleys to open alpine moorland. By grazing grasses and young trees, they ensure a healthy structure to both the woodland and grassland. In autumn,...
“Hundred hills” in danger!
Movile (‘mounds’ in Romanian) or Hundertbücheln (‘hundred-hills’ in Saxon), is a small dead-end village, named after the bizarre and fascinating hills in the surrounding countryside. This otherworldly landscape is unique, holding a rare and...
Flavours of Romania
We are on Netflix! We are very thankful to the Flavours of Romania team who came and filmed here in the Hârtibaciu Valley to put the issues we are tackling on the international stage....
A stark reminder
Last year, as I was conducting bird surveys, I came across a shepherds hut, the temporary home for a couple of shepherds who grazed the surrounding meadows with their flock of sheep and accompanying...
Bird diversity
Podisul Hartibaciului is protected primarily for its extraordinary bird diversity, and high abundance of particularly important bird species. The lesser-spotted eagle thrives thanks to the agricultural mosaic mixed with the presence of extensive, mature...
A forest giant
A while ago we heard from some friends that there was a huge oak tree hidden in the woods near Gherdeal, since then we have visited multiple times with friends but never thought to...
The Badger
The badger is an intriguing combination of cute and ferocious. Although a common and unmistakable animal, widely distributed throughout Europe, its nocturnal habits mean it is rarely seen. They are an incredibly social animal,...
Meadow inhabitants
A flower meadow is a beautiful site, even from a distance. But as you zoom in and get closer and closer, until you are finally immersed in the flowers, that beauty only becomes more...
Soil disturbance
It might be rather annoying when a mole decides to leave one of their hills in the middle of your carrot bed. Or a wild boar leaves his digging marks in your hay meadow,...
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