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Carpathian Bear Humiliated By Frustrated People

A few hectares of fenced land, where every saved bear has his own private space of several thousand square meters, a lair dug in the ground, and a water basin; the bears are properly fed and cared for. More, the money was also used to build a veterinary clinic, still at

Losing Endangered Species?

Our domestic fauna is not okay at all: we have 62 endangered species. These are in addition to the dozens of species already lost. Still, when it comes to diversity, we are doing fine: out of all countries we bring the largest number of bio-geographical regions to the European

Carpathian Bear Endangered

Currently, there are some 2,510 Carpathian bears in the Carpathian woods, compared with almost 8,000 registered in 1989. The late Nicolae Ceausescu hunted approximately 4,000 bears while he was the president of Romania. The bear is an endangered species hunted by poachers.

Homeless Bears And “Stupid Idiots”

on the fight between the hulky body of the hunted and the narrow mind of the hunterYou're a stupid idiot!-thus sounded the insult addressed by a desperate man to a taxi driver, before my very own eyes. The text you are about to read is governed by this paradoxically

The Legendary Wolf: A Shy Killer

The one and only wildlife reserve for wolves in Romania is near Zarnesti, Brasov County. Still, it is weird that, in a country where the wolf threat is used to make children behave themselves and Little Red Riding Hood is a fairy tale almost assimilated as folklore, a reserve

One Spring Morning

With his empty game bag and rifle on his shoulder, Loveţ the woodsman was slowly walking up the path stretching under the hill. A silly cuckoo was singing in the ash trees on the nearby summit; from the valley, another cuckoo answered its call. The forest had almost leafed

The Hunting Museum In Posada: A Sanctuary Of Trophies

see photos I do not believe that anyone could have found a better place, a better lodge for a hunting museum than the one in Posada. Visitors feel this is a wonderful sanctuary of hunting trophies, which, in all likelihood, makes even the most exigent critic happy. In the

Wild Eyes At The Zoo In Ramnicu Valcea

See here a movie made by first graders at this Zoo In order to allow visitors to experience the shock of looking into the eyes of the jaguar, lion, or bear, all of which are ready to charge, the zoo of Ramnicu Valcea is being modernized. This was made really clear by its

Nr. 70 - vara 2009

SUMAR Nr. 70 Inedit Emil Cioran – De la France (fragment din volumul cu acelaşi titlu apărut la Editura L'Herne în 2009, care reproduce primele pagini ale scrierii datând din 1941. Textul este tipărit în premieră în România, prin bunăvoinţa editurilor

Burse pentru traducători în formare

Burse pentru traducători în formare Programul de burse, derulat de ICR prin Centrul Naţional al Cărţii, îşi propune formarea unei noi generaţii de traducători ai literaturii române într-un număr cât mai mare de limbi străine precum şi o colaborare mai strânsă

NR. 66 - vara 2008

SUMAR NR. 66 Pagini autobiografice Ion Vianu – Exerciţiu de sinceritate (III) Aharon Appelfeld – Povestea unei vieţi Dincolo de eveniment Adam Michnik – Ultraradicalii revoluţiei morale Paulo Moura – Portugalia văzută de pe a doua şosea importantă a

Yotam Reuveny - Întoarcerea (roman), 2007, 182 p.

Poet şi prozator de expresie ebraică, Yotam Reuveny s-a născut în 1949 la Iaşi, iar în 1964 a emigrat în Israel. Curând după revoluţia din 1989, în calitate de ziarist, a avut ocazia să revină în România pentru prima oară după emigrare. Revederea, dupa 25