Treeline has many fabulous partners who are doing fascinating, important work within the spheres of creative arts, community engagement or nature preservation. The European Nature Trust are one of our biggest supporters and their work is vital especially in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania where the Treeline journey gets going.
The European Nature Trust support the most effective conservation projects across Europe and Belize andwork with grassroots environmental foundations, each working at landscape-scale with local communities, to protect and restore living landscapes. Their long-term support helps catalyse and amplify conservation efforts, lifting organisations driving the recovery of nature.
They help people reconnect with the natural systems on which we all depend. And this is a core part of Treeline, to connect people with their environment and perceive it in new ways.
The European Nature Trust was founded in 2000 by Paul Lister, a passionate conservationist, determined to invigorate the wildlife of our continent. After years in the family furniture business and the sudden ill health of his father, Paul had an awakening; he saw the damage that had occurred across Europe’s ecosystems, and launched a mission of rejuvenation. In 2003, he purchased Alladale Wilderness Reserve in the heart of the Scottish Highlands, now the focus of a pioneering rewilding and ecotourism initiative. Simultaneously, he set up TENT as a vehicle to catalyse and amplify conservation projects across the continent.
We are so grateful to The European Nature Trust for their support.
www.theeuropeannaturetrust.com
The Carpathian Mountains dominate Romania’s central region; here, more than 250,000 hectares of virgin forests remain – the largest unfragmented forest region in Europe. They are a critical stronghold of European biodiversity – but Romania’s forests are continually under threat. With the fall of communism, Romania privatised many of its formerly nationalised forests. Logging companies bought many privately owned forests, and the result was tremendous levels of deforestation. Today, illegal logging threatens the integrity of the Carpathian ecosystem.
The European Nature Trust support Foundation Conservation Carpathia (FCC) in their efforts to protect the forests of the southeastern Carpathians from deforestation, conserve a crucial outpost for European biodiversity, and create a new national park for Romania.