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Group buys up large tracts of land in Romania to create 'European Yellowstone'

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Re: Group buys up large tracts of land in Romania to create 'European Yellowstone'

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Post by keiferski »

nottorp wrote: post #46
keiferski wrote: post #36

Of particular note is that there are a ton of bears in Romania, much more than in other European countries, with something like 60% of all European brown bears. [0] Glad to see that someone is attempting to preserve this. 0. https://www.mossy.earth/rewilding-knowledge/romanias-brown-b...

There are more bears than the land can sustain. Go to any tourist (or non tourist) spot in the mountains and they'll come down and steal from your garbage in town . Look up Brasov. It's a reasonably large touristic town and it regularly gets bears at the periphery.

I don't know much about the particular situation, but isn't it likely that is just caused from human settlements expanding?

Re: Group buys up large tracts of land in Romania to create 'European Yellowstone'

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Post by willsmith72 »

TulliusCicero wrote: post #45
willsmith72 wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Better than who out of curiosity?

The ones that get slammed the most that I've seen are probably the Brits, Russians, and Chinese. Apparently Brits are notorious for getting super drunk and fucking around. Russians are known as being really entitled and rude (and sometimes aggressive IIRC), and there's Chinese tourists also being rude and ignoring rules in huge packs. The stereotype of American tourists is that they're ignorant and loud (and bad dres…

True, and Americans tend to stick to tourist traps, you don't find at many of them at random Slovenian lakes.

A young group of brits abroad can be found anywhere and everywhere

Re: Group buys up large tracts of land in Romania to create 'European Yellowstone'

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Post by TulliusCicero »

kjkjadksj wrote: post #44
willsmith72 wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Better than who out of curiosity?

Probably british youths on holiday, they are pretty notorious. This demographic of american is just as bad but can only afford to get belligerent domestically in florida or south padre isle during spring break, much less afford a flight to europe.

Exactly, shitty American tourists are staying within America or going to Mexico/nearby Latam countries.

Re: Group buys up large tracts of land in Romania to create 'European Yellowstone'

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Post by xandrius »

budududuroiu wrote: post #42
ethbr1 wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are the pros and cons?

Pros (imo): Daily essentials not-yet commodified, can access amazing produce for cheap. Geopolitically stable, crime is mostly petty or white collar. Nature. Cons (imo): no progressive tax rate, effective ~50% tax on income unless you want to do tax evasion (Romanian past-time), very likely to die on the road as public transit is in a state of disrepair, choice of healthcare between expensive and inefficient private…

Cons (imo) definitely outweigh the pros though.

Re: Group buys up large tracts of land in Romania to create 'European Yellowstone'

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Post by hollywood_court »

samatman wrote: post #14
bombcar wrote: post #7

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Just go to any other part of the park; though the other parts are not as "interesting". Visit the Zone of Death! Almost completely empty! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_of_Death_(Yellowstone)

The Zone of Death isn't quite a classic "HN tries to compile the law" topic, lawyers have tried to have the boundaries rewritten after all. But what would happen if/when a felony is committed in the Zone of Death is fairly clear. A local judge would rule that "State and district" needs to be interpreted in the intention of the legislature, and can only be "State or district" when those differ, since "neither State no…

This reminds of “Free Fire” by C.J. Box.

Re: Group buys up large tracts of land in Romania to create 'European Yellowstone'

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Post by Fricken »

>Several years ago, 80 bison were reintroduced two centuries after their disappearance from these territories...

I had no idea there were bison in Europe.

The provided hyperlink leads to an article about bison being reintroduced in Mexico. Here is an appropriate article about bison being rewilded in the Southern Carpathians:

https://rewildingeurope.com/blog/free-roaming-bison-populati....

Re: Group buys up large tracts of land in Romania to create 'European Yellowstone'

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Post by pfdietz »

nottorp wrote: post #46
keiferski wrote: post #36

Of particular note is that there are a ton of bears in Romania, much more than in other European countries, with something like 60% of all European brown bears. [0] Glad to see that someone is attempting to preserve this. 0. https://www.mossy.earth/rewilding-knowledge/romanias-brown-b...

There are more bears than the land can sustain. Go to any tourist (or non tourist) spot in the mountains and they'll come down and steal from your garbage in town . Look up Brasov. It's a reasonably large touristic town and it regularly gets bears at the periphery.

Bears are common in western US mountain towns. The solution is being careful with garbage, including use of bear-proof containers.

I'm not sure this is a sign of "too many" so much as that the bear population is healthy, meaning it's up against the carrying capacity, as a healthy population should be.

Re: Group buys up large tracts of land in Romania to create 'European Yellowstone'

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Post by Rinzler89 »

nottorp wrote: post #46
keiferski wrote: post #36

Of particular note is that there are a ton of bears in Romania, much more than in other European countries, with something like 60% of all European brown bears. [0] Glad to see that someone is attempting to preserve this. 0. https://www.mossy.earth/rewilding-knowledge/romanias-brown-b...

There are more bears than the land can sustain. Go to any tourist (or non tourist) spot in the mountains and they'll come down and steal from your garbage in town . Look up Brasov. It's a reasonably large touristic town and it regularly gets bears at the periphery.

> they'll come down and steal from your garbage in town

You mean their home? Bears were there before humans settled and built towns.

IMHO can't really complain about bears wehen you're the on encroaching on their turf, not the other way around.

Re: Group buys up large tracts of land in Romania to create 'European Yellowstone'

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Post by xandrius »

jesprenj wrote: post #28

> European Yellowstone That makes it sound like national parks were invented in the USA and there are no national parks in Europe ... So when a new store opens outside of the US it's called European Wallmart?

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