Carpathian Sheep Walk: Dragos Bucur pulls his gold teeth out for Rosia Montana

Monday 25 June 2012

Dragos Bucur pulls his gold teeth out for Rosia Montana

Just watch this. Uitati acest film. Please. Va rog. It doesn't need translation

Rosia Montana FanFest from 15-19 August 2012. Wish I could be there.

And just to show that not all campaigners have the same colours, follow this guy, Tica Darie, as he cycles across Europe in support of Salvati Rosia Montana.

UPDATE: BBC Radio 4 Crossing Continents on Rosia Montana - a very incisive and well-balanced report.

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Rounded hills at the northern end of the Cindrel Massif

Two years' worth of drought and centuries of grazing have given the landscape its smooth contours. In the distance, the fast-growing Gypsy quarter of the village stands out on the ridge tops. The Baiesi, the non-Roma Gypsies who live there make up a third of the total population of 6,000. Some fear that the district may become even larger, but most of those in the older quarters like to live and let live, and there are other positive sides to the situation, one of which is that many of the Baiesi are musicians. In any case, they are like all of us in that they only want a place in the sun. Still, there are tensions between the two 'sides', not least because Baiesi are building on land that is not legally theirs.

Gathering sheep on the Preseli Hills

Sheep from this farm are grazed on the hills during the summer and taken to winter pastures by lorry. Their journey to and from the winter grazing only lasts an hour or so. Lambs which are sold for meat travel across Europe while they are still alive. EU legislation limits the number of hours that animals should be kept on the road, and stipulates how often they should be watered and rested. These rules are not always observed. When it comes to horses, some 60,000 a year travel for several days from Poland and Romania to southern Italy, sometimes with injuries and often without rest or water. These figures have been collected by World Horse Welfare which has conducted undercover research to see what really happens. Ironically the economic downturn has made this trade less profitable, but it still happens.

Carpathian Sheep Walk

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Monday 25 June 2012

Dragos Bucur pulls his gold teeth out for Rosia Montana

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