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Tracking through Europe's rare WILDERNESS | Close encounter with BEAR & Cub! (Ep. 3)



Folks! Let us conserve these Old-growth forests and try and bring this to the attention of the EU again! https://openpetition.eu/!loggingromania Please sign the petition and share it as well as this video series. (it will cost you hardly any effort). Thanks a million!
Watch the other episodes in this series here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0g1kSwASIt2PL9CJyrT4r3DM9AVKT3BJ

Thanks to Agent Green for their support and for using some of their footage! Agent Green is a non-profit organization for environmental protection. Its affinity is to investigate environmental crimes, strategically expose them and promote solutions to conserve biodiversity and ensure the well-being of future generations. Learn more and help to conserver Europe’s primeval forests here: https://www.agentgreen.ro/doneaza/

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More info on Illegal Logging in Romania (SOURCES used in this video):
Agent Green Series – Out of Control: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCkRvQm21OY&list=PLD5D5t0S8X6hynqjsPML6QB01D9ks2GNe
Al Jazeera Report: https://youtu.be/oFQ3CxJrHKg
BBC Report – https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50094830
Fern – EU Enforcement is overdue: https://www.fern.org/publications-insight/eu-enforcement-is-overdue-destruction-of-romanias-natura-2000-primary-and-old-growth-forests-continues-2465/
Illegal logging of Romania’s natural forests increases despite court threat – https://www.saveparadiseforests.eu/en/illegal-logging-of-romanias-natural-forests-increases-despite-court-threat-new-report/
PRIMOFARO – Inventory of Potential Primary and Old-Growth Forest Areas in Romania https://www.euronatur.org/fileadmin/docs/Urwald-Kampagne_Rumaenien/PRIMOFARO_24092019_layouted.pdf

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Video Chapters:
0:00 Series Intro
1:18 Vibes of the Landscape & Bear encounter
6:22 Settling down for the night; special shelter…
13:03 The next morning; to the FINAL DESTINATION…
18:10 The story of Romania’s Forest Mafia
20:08 Nature’s resilience.
22:38 To the mountaintop!: THE CLIMAX of this trip!

More Video Credits:
Bear eating in garbage Bușteni… – https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bXjf0sJgG08
Bear and Chainsaw – Agent Green – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG6y7BxNNoI

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42 Comments

  1. I am very surprised you're not using a Grayl or somethign comprable to filter the water.

  2. Really enjoyed this series, excellent filmmaking! I’m from Ireland and can’t help but notice a little Irish accent?

  3. Many people don't really get what old-growth really means. It doesn't mean 200 years of growth. It means thousands of years of the ecosystem working. You don't get 200-year-old trees in 200 years naturally after a fire/clearcut

  4. Why are you traveling so far for beer sightings when you can have those at your local pub?

  5. Amazing vid! Very informative and beautiful. I actually gasped when you found the baby spruce in the stump. Awesome work!

  6. Well Julian, I don't understand why with all of this forested Beauty, you haven't showed your viewers of th wild edibles found in these regions. This was that very intriguing part of your former videos that caught my interests, to watching your productions. Add these things back into your videos, & it will keep my interest.

  7. menonton tayangan anda seperti menonton game petualangan 👍
    saya sangat menyukai tayangan anda,,

  8. I went and signed the petition. I stated that I knew you as being my relation to this petition. Of course, I don't actually know you, but I saw your video. Also, how has dillon been? Haven't seen him in a bit. You must be on quite a long journey, traveling and filming the landscape. You don't seem too concerned about survival anymore. I suppose it has become sort of second nature to you now. Anyways, good day my friend, from Oklahoma, US.

  9. Great video. I always learn something useful from these trips that I can try. Good close-up shots, definitely honing the director's skills. I myself have recently started making videos about my adventures, of course, this cannot be compared with your work yet, but I am moving very quickly towards this. 👍

  10. This was wonderful! Twenty years ago I went camping in the Ukrainian part of the Carpathians and it was like going back in time to the Early Paleolithic. But Julius, don't worry about the bears so much. If you don't startle them or make them feel cornered they'll leave you alone because, really, Julius, they are very picky eaters. What is there to eat on YOU? Nothing. Zip. Skinny arms and legs with no meat, just tendons and veins. No bum with a bit of fat. No thigh meat. Big nose and ears, yes, which would be like chewing rubber. And being a vegan, well, you have the natural defense of your gas. I mean, at minute 14:10 one can hear the results of eating a kilo of lentils the night before. No, maybe a starving polar bear might think gnawing on a Dutch bony size 46 foot has some nutrition but I doubt it. You do not appeal to carnivores. Sorry.

  11. This is the greatest collab of all time. As a fan of both servers, I love this to bits.

  12. Great video Julius. Signed the petition. Thanks for the great footage. Keep on bringing good video's!

  13. He who slew a tree was considered the same as he who slew a man. The trees are citizens of the state to be protected the same as any other citizens. according to the old law. Leonardo Da vinchi designed dams that catch river wood that can be dried and provide a constant supply as a it accumultes at the dam. i was chased this summer by two guys working for the council as it turned out for cutting down trees in my local park, their three dogs surrounded me off leads and i shouted at them to get back and the council guy came at me with a raised axe for threatening his three boiterous dogs. it also showed me the mentality behind the pepple who cut down trees and how easily they can move on to wanting to cut down a peacful person walking silently though the park keeping their space. Humans should not be allowed within 5 meteres of a tree without taking a vow to respect them as a human, otherwise we can way too easily overlook the gifts and take advantage. Lentils and curry powder, that looks awesome and very brave to cook around Bears. Id say the Garam Masala could carry for a few hundred feet., your a brave soul, it looks like an amazing place to realise your animation.

  14. You're great Julius, but I think there's a way to film nature that represents your own personal style more rather than all the other nature shows. That said I'm glad you're still making videos.

  15. Thank you for sharing the bad things that's happening to our our countrie's nature.. It's a sad truth and the coruption makes the stop of this impossible from the inside.

  16. Absolutely heartbreaking 🙁 Thank you for the video and highlighting this destruction. Signed the petition and have passed it on to many, keep up the good work 👍🏻

  17. An excellent video of more illegal human devastation of nature, these crimes should never go unpunished and the perpetrators should be imprisoned for life.

  18. Thank u for ur video series and your bravery to go there, camp there and show us the beauty of the wilderness. Really enjoyed the last Videos!

  19. All this wood ends up as raw material for furniture producers like IKEA. The European Union has no interest to stop this crime. The Roumanian gouvernment is a cheap prostitute and the roumanians are characterized by indifference = not a good combination for the 🌲. Thank you for your initiative and efforts! Best Regards from Romania.

  20. It's a bit rich for the rest of Europe to criticize Romania, when they have not preserved their own forests…

  21. Come to Vancouver British Columbia Canada. It’s a mountaineer paradise. Lots of grizzly bears, black bears cougar, lynx, Timberwolf. You would love it here

  22. Je hebt echt goede editing skills man! Lijkt wel een productie van een grote organisatie. Petje af!

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