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  • Опубліковано 19 лют 2021
  • Sand is overrunning Oltenia, a historical region in southern Romania. It’s getting hotter and drier, with sandstorms now reaching all the way to Bucharest. As they try to prevent the worst, environmentalists are turning to reforestation.
    The effects of climate change can be clearly seen and felt in the Romanian region of Oltenia. Where once green meadows and forests lined the banks of the River Danube, swathes of sand are now expanding. The area in question now covers more than 800 square kilometers along the Danube. Wind blows sand into villages, and even as far as the capital, Bucharest, more than 200 kilometers away. It’s the result of a combination of global warming and reckless agricultural policies. In the 1970s and 1980s, dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu had forests cut down and lakes drained as he sought to promote large-scale agricultural production.
    Environmentalists, entrepreneurs and local politicians are now trying to stop the ongoing devastation in the south of their country. Bucharest lawmaker and environmental activist Octavian Berceanu travels regularly to the region, in order to discover the main causes of the desertification. Together with forestry engineer Dan Popescu, he wants to convince locals and officials to plant new trees in fields that have become unusable.
    Farmers can hardly grow any crops in the sandy soil. Even undemanding cereals like corn no longer find sufficient nutrients there. Desperate farmers are now mainly growing even less demanding melon crops.
    What’s already happening in Oltenia is also threatening other parts of Europe, as the continent feels the effects of climate change: one summer of drought after another, with serious consequences for both environment and agriculture.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 606

  • @Niki-lt9hf
    @Niki-lt9hf 3 роки тому +208

    The background music is from Romania’s southetn neighbour - Bulgaria. We have the same problem here with the deforestation, unfortunatelly noone gives a shit about it... Good luck, Romania, greetings from Bulgaria❤️🇷🇴🇧🇬

    • @asamoahotanga7809
      @asamoahotanga7809 3 роки тому +6

      Goodluck to You as well, hope to see better days for both our countries as we have so much potential.🇧🇬🇷🇴

    • @TheEston99
      @TheEston99 3 роки тому +5

      Same happens in Serbia, government just decides to cut trees in cities and forests.

    • @iztok252
      @iztok252 3 роки тому +1

      wait.... we dont have desertification right?

    • @sebastianr1204
      @sebastianr1204 3 роки тому +3

      @@TheEston99 same happens in Spain, Germany and everywhere. Sadly in some countries many people don’t care and the people caring are to few and often powerless.

    • @vatravlahilor492
      @vatravlahilor492 3 роки тому +1

      Love Bulgaria from Romania

  • @thequeenofcydonia
    @thequeenofcydonia 3 роки тому +269

    I'm really impressed with Octavian's fight for saving the soil. It's devastating to see what humans have done to nature. :'( Wishing the best of luck to Romanians who are planting trees and vegetation and fighting against expanding landfills, from neighboring Serbia.

    • @sandracepoi1178
      @sandracepoi1178 3 роки тому +3

      Thank you!

    • @loganwolv3393
      @loganwolv3393 3 роки тому +8

      @@sebastianflora299 Well nothing, but you're missing the point here. He's just amazed some politicians are actually geniune activists that choose to be good even if their pockets are being hurt.

    • @Alex-ll3ig
      @Alex-ll3ig 3 роки тому +8

      @@sebastianflora299 the sand goes up the flow of the Danube River , in near future this may come to neighbouring countries , the first in is Serbia.

    • @thequeenofcydonia
      @thequeenofcydonia 3 роки тому +12

      @@Alex-ll3ig Actually, I only mentioned that I'm from Serbia because I want the best for our region which we all know is facing all kinds of difficulties. I don't think we are (yet) in danger from sand spreading but we do plenty of damage on our own as well.

    • @sebastianflora299
      @sebastianflora299 3 роки тому +1

      Reading this again I think he's saying he is from Serbia.

  • @buddha1736
    @buddha1736 3 роки тому +266

    Plant 🌱 as many Trees 🌲 as you can folks, I’m a Guerrilla Gardener from the U.K. planting Trees on any land I find. 😉👍🏻

    • @io6027
      @io6027 3 роки тому +3

      Got any tips? We got a problem with deforestation here in the south bit of Michigan’s southern peninsula

    • @buddha1736
      @buddha1736 3 роки тому +21

      @@io6027 I went to my local woodland found acorns etc any tree seeds I could find my friend, I made a family trip of it got the kids involved, come home planted seeds in pots then plant them out, onto spare land than is not being used, got a load of apple Trees growing in my yard at the moment ready to be planted out on the next piece of land I find.😉🌲👍🏻😍

    • @roxxannn
      @roxxannn 3 роки тому +15

      Why they should do that if the company's from Austria come in Romania and cut all the forests because the government is very corrupt and let them to do what they want even to falsificate documents which give them the power to cut your own forest if they want! The corruption kills! Everyone is corrup from the government till at the small councils! You can buy and do anything if you have enough money!

    • @upupandaway5646
      @upupandaway5646 3 роки тому +1

      Great job

    • @buddha1736
      @buddha1736 3 роки тому +14

      @@roxxannn Corruption is everywhere my friend, and if we do nothing about it we won’t have a home called earth 🌍 it’s time to fight back, plant Trees 🌲 it’s fun good exercise and a good hobby. 🌱🌲😍👍🏻

  • @necbranduc
    @necbranduc 3 роки тому +99

    Ca și român, nu știam despre acest lucru și mă întreb oare de ce nu este mediatizată mai mult această problemă, la televizor, la radio etc.
    Translation: As a Romanian, I didn't know about this and I wonder why isn't this problem in the media more, on TV, on the radio etc.

    • @marikaserasini2315
      @marikaserasini2315 3 роки тому +1

      😢

    • @RobertaAdesignbyhumans
      @RobertaAdesignbyhumans 3 роки тому +21

      Din acelasi motiv pentru care diplomele de facultate ies pe banda rulanta in fabrici de incultura...nimic nu e implementat pentru binele cetateanului. Trebuie sa ramanem inculti, ignoranti si stresati, sa cumparam multe electronice in timp ce toate se prabusesc in jurul nostru. Cu masca pe figura.

    • @andreiandy9227
      @andreiandy9227 3 роки тому +8

      Pentru ca subiecte ca acestea nu atrag audiența

    • @PartidulIndezirabililorSociali
      @PartidulIndezirabililorSociali 3 роки тому +8

      Se stie demult despre desertificarea. Degeaba , ai vazut ce a zis. Solutia este sa puna pomi. Cine sa puna ? Proprietarii ? aia sunt saraci vai de mama lor. Nu mai are cine, o sa se ajunga la desertificare. Si in Dobrogea este o situatie asemanatoare.

    • @strictlyunreal
      @strictlyunreal 3 роки тому +2

      Nu arată la Acces Direct chestii d-astea. Încearcă și alte emisiuni. Problema e cunoscută de oamenii care știu pe ce planetă trăiesc.

  • @faranume7735
    @faranume7735 3 роки тому +9

    frumos documentarul si Doamne ajuta ca exista oameni ca tine. This man makes me proud that im a Romanian.

  • @rzomg
    @rzomg 3 роки тому +92

    The emporer Octavian was know for being humble man who restored Rome to its glory, he was basically workerclass at birth i think.
    This man has a fitting name for restoring Romania.

    • @dsadawrware
      @dsadawrware 3 роки тому +8

      There was aristocracy/senators, professional soldiers (Equites), and plebeians classes, Octavian was born into a family of aristocrats and bankers, there was no social mobility in Rome and the Equites class (professional soldiers) were constantly fighting just to get some land to farm.
      Also, in his memoires he mentions the "longing gaze" of his slave boys, lets not glorify the past too much.

    • @organicfarm5524
      @organicfarm5524 3 роки тому +1

      @@dsadawrware yes, Rome was hierarchical at its core

    • @kisspeteristvan
      @kisspeteristvan 3 роки тому

      pffff :)))

  • @ganeshchandravlogs5846
    @ganeshchandravlogs5846 3 роки тому +17

    I'm Indian and since 2010 in Bucharest..thank you dw English.. This this true ..I want meet him ..gentlemen doing great job..
    Dw TV 📺 always showing out of 🌏earth

  • @stevenbaker7696
    @stevenbaker7696 3 роки тому +104

    I'm so glad you made and put this film here, Al Jazeera have a documentary about the devastation of the forests in Romania due to greedy logging companies which is a real eye opener!

    • @alb0zfinest
      @alb0zfinest 3 роки тому +16

      Illegal logging is also a HUGE problem in the Balkans. Albania shortly after ww2 had 60% of the country forested, now it’s 19%. And a huge part is western countries dumping their trash there (Italy, Canada, some U.S etc).

    • @stevenbaker7696
      @stevenbaker7696 3 роки тому +8

      @@alb0zfinest I can believe it: as I put the first comment I thought 'but it's happening everywhere!' the worst for me is in Indonesia and the Phillipines where rare and irreplaceable (fragrant) woods are harvested to extinction ... that recent catastrophe in the Himalayas where they take the trees and are putting up DAMS of all things? God, it's so depressing!

    • @stevenbaker7696
      @stevenbaker7696 3 роки тому +1

      @Eugene Vikernua Thanks for this and Hello IKEA! How will we all feel when we can't breathe and have all been washed away? It seems like a logical outcome from all this ... ?

    • @Palaxz
      @Palaxz 3 роки тому +3

      As an annoyed romanian about this problem of deforestation for years I can tell you that not the greedy companies are the main problem but rather the politics and local mayors who are behind this problem. They control both the politics and the companies as members and administrators of these companies. They legally sign the papers and cut the trees with the same hand. But there is some fight aginst deforestation and I hope these methods gets more sophisticated with time.

    • @ShiviRo
      @ShiviRo 3 роки тому

      Do you have the link ?

  • @catalinadam5007
    @catalinadam5007 3 роки тому +12

    Octavian is the most famous environmental activist in Romania. He's not afraid of approaching the issues, in front of the authorities or in front of those who trespass the law. Unfortunately, at present, his activism is still overwhelmed by the hidden interests of those who make money over trespassing environmental laws. Hopefully one day his efforts will pay.

    • @hemingstein4262
      @hemingstein4262 3 роки тому

      And now the new head of the National Environmental Guard :) stopping the illegal burning of plastic waste at the edge of Bucharest and also stopping waste dumping from other countries into Romania, at the customs.
      One of the rare cases when a competent, honest person gets a high ranking job in the government.

    • @catalinadam5007
      @catalinadam5007 3 роки тому +1

      @@hemingstein4262 indeed. He deserves his place and position. But he is an exception, unfortunately. There are few public servants like him. The large majority of them are different and we both know this situation. :-)

  • @EUTalks
    @EUTalks 3 роки тому +5

    How much wood was illegally cut down for the Austrian companies in Romania? And when the media started talking about it, they just left the country. Leaving full forests gone.

  • @kaligola2713
    @kaligola2713 3 роки тому +183

    Just remember that the African Sahara was vast green areas, plains, rivers and forests before 6000 years ago!

    • @Klunkabatzn
      @Klunkabatzn 3 роки тому +1

      True, Jason got his fleece the same way...

    • @abdirahmanjama7481
      @abdirahmanjama7481 3 роки тому +1

      You can trust what they say only the creator of the heavens and earth knows such

    • @Hookooo
      @Hookooo 3 роки тому +6

      @@abdirahmanjama7481
      And the people who sold you or to your parents this religion.

    • @jacktriper4788
      @jacktriper4788 3 роки тому

      Yes but then was a veritable ice age in Europe...

    • @dotdashdotdash
      @dotdashdotdash 3 роки тому

      @@jacktriper4788 it ended in Europe about 13,000 years ago

  • @peterjoshuva1521
    @peterjoshuva1521 3 роки тому +109

    Octavian has a heart of eden I firmly believe his passion and determination can transform any desert to eden the garden of life bravo brother...

    • @danielvanvance6297
      @danielvanvance6297 3 роки тому +4

      He's my hero that protect the environment

    • @victorsefan
      @victorsefan 3 роки тому +7

      he is now the chief of the national environment guard, so he really has some claws now

    • @thegodofmischief8141
      @thegodofmischief8141 3 роки тому

      byth 2xLKW with garbage -mtl,aluminium,iron,etc made 60.000 Euro...Imagine how much money he just saved

  • @taranpreetkaur8303
    @taranpreetkaur8303 3 роки тому +25

    I wish we had more politicians like Octavian. Massive respect to him and DW as always you never fail to impress me with your quality stuff :) .

  • @nightbleeding2759
    @nightbleeding2759 2 роки тому +2

    Yeah, this summer it was as hot as 43C all over the country, I've never experienced that high temperature, it was suffocating, I remember when I was a little kid summer were not as hot about 30C sometimes they were chilly like 21C and winters with temperatures as low as -20C and snow storms up to 40cm of show, now is like 5C in middle of January.

  • @AlexxanderOnYoutube
    @AlexxanderOnYoutube 3 роки тому +5

    you can say what you want about romanians, but the vast majority are honest working people, open minded and culturally well educated, with a very good english knowledge also!

  • @charronfamilyconnect
    @charronfamilyconnect 3 роки тому +30

    Its time to ban plastics in favor of plant based bio-plastic! This would get us halfway in our fight against environmental degradation! Permaculture methods applied would take care of the other half of the problem!

    • @chaigasho775
      @chaigasho775 3 роки тому +2

      Best stop buying phones or laptops for making these comments then!

    • @ChrisTian-yw7jc
      @ChrisTian-yw7jc 3 роки тому

      Permaculture doesn't feed the world.

    • @chaigasho775
      @chaigasho775 3 роки тому

      @@ChrisTian-yw7jc I'd agree with o'byran. Permaculture is just the art of bringing land back to a point that's as close to nature as possible. And we can't say nature dosent feed the world! !!

    • @ChrisTian-yw7jc
      @ChrisTian-yw7jc 3 роки тому

      @@chaigasho775 We can very well say that a natural habitat does not feed the world. The current areas are formed by centuries of agriculture, strictly connected to the growth of populations.

    • @chaigasho775
      @chaigasho775 3 роки тому

      @@ChrisTian-yw7jc I said nature. I agree we've messed up much of the planets soil and tree population. But nature is still what grows our food for better or worse.

  • @RJS76
    @RJS76 3 роки тому +10

    This guy is a hero. Not only does he do what seems impossible but he knows exactly what the solution is. If only more did the same.. how do I do something like that..? Its good to speak out your mind but as I'm sitting comfortably on my couch looking at this, I feel embarrassed. Like I said, this guy is a hero..

  • @endowpanda
    @endowpanda 3 роки тому +8

    DW DOCUMENTARIES ARE ALWAYS WORTH WATCHING

  • @xxxxxsero
    @xxxxxsero 3 роки тому +11

    This one hurts a lot! It breaks my heart that my own country has to go through so much ... if only corruption would be eradicated so that we can direct money where it's needed. Our kids won't have a home if we don't wake up and fight for our house!

    • @xxxxxsero
      @xxxxxsero 3 роки тому +2

      @Lucid Magic Same here. Seems like there is no way out of this. I guess, deep down, I still hope things will change for better so that I can go back home. Nothing hurts more than to see your home being destroyed and knowing you cannot change anything.

  • @romella_karmey
    @romella_karmey 3 роки тому +87

    Until the last trees have been wiped out and until the last ocean has been polluted only then we realize that we cannot eat money.

    • @ymeekins6357
      @ymeekins6357 3 роки тому +3

      Very very very true.

    • @SynchronicitySequence
      @SynchronicitySequence 3 роки тому +1

      @@ymeekins6357 You must have never dipped a $100 Bill in A1 Sauce, & chased it with Caviar on your yacht.

  • @shivasubramanian3613
    @shivasubramanian3613 3 роки тому +3

    Please try to show location on the map as well like old times, it made it easier to understand the perspective on large scale...👍
    Thank you for keep on posting.

  • @AnaGeorgescuArt
    @AnaGeorgescuArt 3 роки тому +22

    Wonderful documentary. It's the first time that I hear about this problem and it's really concerning. It's a great thing that DW makes these documentaries helping us to understand better the world :)

    • @imme9196
      @imme9196 3 роки тому +3

      Daca esti interesata, Greenpeace Romania si Declic au petitii fix pe tema aceasta (si poti si dona daca vrei)

    • @DWDocumentary
      @DWDocumentary  3 роки тому +5

      Hi @Ana Georgescu, thanks for watching!

  • @rockefeller1787
    @rockefeller1787 3 роки тому +7

    3 days a ago my home country Gambia west Africa was hit with sand storm never seen before and visibility was very very bad, imagine the intense heat in Africa🤔 it was so bad that daylight was gone and the dust covered the whole sky

    • @bobigny9345
      @bobigny9345 3 роки тому

      Why the name rockefeller?!

  • @yahooo949
    @yahooo949 3 роки тому +8

    I'm sorry to hear about what has happened in Romania. I hope that more people become more concerned with the climate change issue and start to be more responsible to contribute in aiding the issue.

    • @ShiviRo
      @ShiviRo 3 роки тому

      🇰🇷 ?

  • @darkjosephx9074
    @darkjosephx9074 3 роки тому +2

    i am romanian and i can say that our politicians allowed foreign companies to cutt down our woods and now the people is paying. stop cutting the forests and regenarete the evil that has been done! Oltenia is facing desertification because of the lack of forests,lack of irrigation and many more. Sometimes I wish as a romanian to be governed by a swede or norwegian,notherners know what to do with they land and resources!

  • @alsuri2203
    @alsuri2203 3 роки тому +2

    Good documentary! Thanks for making this desertification of Romania visible. Hope authorities will start making the environment a priority on their agenda.
    Well done to Octavian and his team as well to all those involved in supporting and promoting the environment recovery in Romania.

  • @GingerGingie
    @GingerGingie 3 роки тому +35

    It was just last week that our sky, here in SW Germany, turned yellow with sand from the Sahara. At first we didn't know what it was. We were out walking with our family and neighbors, but when we got home hubbs looked it up. Our cars and windows were coated in yellow sand!

    • @MrTaxiRob
      @MrTaxiRob 3 роки тому

      the Jet Stream is going crazy

    • @matthewdolan5831
      @matthewdolan5831 3 роки тому

      Yeah, i was going to blame builders for the dust. Weather now free range in Europe..

    • @yardmanharry3729
      @yardmanharry3729 2 роки тому

      Germany is now experiencing what we in the Caribbean for the last decade plus. Every it get worst and cause numerous respiratory issues. Climate change is real! The world is sleeping.

    • @CFRTrainSpotter
      @CFRTrainSpotter 3 місяці тому

      the Saharan dust issue has been a common thing in Romania in the last 20 years or so (cant say exactly when since i was born in 2002). but i think sand storms might only get worse if the desertification issue doesnt stop sooner or later...

  • @bekabeka71
    @bekabeka71 3 роки тому +5

    So sad 😞. Love from across the sea 🇬🇪✝️🇬🇪

  • @bencera6067
    @bencera6067 3 роки тому +11

    May brave and intelligent people like Octavian always have the help they need 🙏

  • @khankrum1
    @khankrum1 3 роки тому +15

    I was diving past the Karnobat region going to Burgas, Bulgaria, and thought I was driving past the Siera Nevada.

  • @adoatero5129
    @adoatero5129 3 роки тому +1

    This was inspiring. There are so many great people among us. Thanks for the video!

  • @davidyasss3484
    @davidyasss3484 3 роки тому +95

    Who are these weirdos who dislike videos? 🧐 mind boggling.

    • @zenokarlsbach4292
      @zenokarlsbach4292 3 роки тому +1

      Once they saw these garbage dumps they decided to turn it off.

    • @MrTaxiRob
      @MrTaxiRob 3 роки тому +9

      Hungarians

    • @kevinpeng4059
      @kevinpeng4059 3 роки тому +5

      US Republicans

    • @sk-so9dx
      @sk-so9dx 3 роки тому +4

      @@notimeforspace2477 the same shithole that basically owns america, americas in a debt trap to a shithole country, sad LOL

    • @auramsafaris-tanzania-east5632
      @auramsafaris-tanzania-east5632 3 роки тому

      Just a wild guess - MONSANTO/BAYER - so that there is a food shortage so that we buy their GMO seeds....

  • @Bogdan19994Mr
    @Bogdan19994Mr 3 роки тому +3

    Băiatul de la inceput nu e de la Garda de Mediu (din clipul Recorder)?

    • @GogusDrone
      @GogusDrone 3 роки тому +2

      a fost pus seful garzii de mediu acum 2 saptamani.

  • @kevohwapipelinetransami4351
    @kevohwapipelinetransami4351 3 роки тому +13

    Watching from Kenya🇰🇪🇰🇪

    • @buddha1736
      @buddha1736 3 роки тому +2

      Plant 🌱 as many Tress as you can my friend. 😉👍🏻

    • @cristhina21
      @cristhina21 3 роки тому

      Hello from Romania

  • @AlLuiPigus
    @AlLuiPigus 3 роки тому +3

    Felicitari, Octavian!

  • @ciobanubogdan5619
    @ciobanubogdan5619 3 роки тому +4

    **Unde este acel desert din Romania?**

  • @M_alienWorld
    @M_alienWorld 3 роки тому +33

    starting last Nov his party [USR] is in the govt coalition, so he is not an opposition politician any longer. They are in position to do even more for the environment... I wish them luck!

    • @PartidulIndezirabililorSociali
      @PartidulIndezirabililorSociali 3 роки тому +4

      salvatorii pulii cu ideologii de la hollywood. cine pune botul la USR o sa si-o ia mai tare decat de la cei care au fost pana acum.

    • @ryanB74
      @ryanB74 3 роки тому

      @@PartidulIndezirabililorSociali Free Dragnea si Go for Putin, nu? esti tare, ca untu' la soare, ca fularu', ca mustiucu' care-l scuturi dimineata...

  • @wa7812
    @wa7812 3 роки тому +3

    We have challenged the same desertification in Syria and we overcame the task by implanting 40,000 pistachio trees with their unique test around the world... unfortunately when pistachio started flourishing the war started, wishing to save people and trees what are remaining now ...

  • @alexhorhat
    @alexhorhat 3 роки тому +2

    Unfortunately there are many people that turn their backs when you try to raise awareness towards the effects of climate change. For example I'm a Master's Degree student in Cluj-Napoca Romania and two classmates and I decided to make a small project about this phenomenon that we presented it at a conference in november.. We used Remote Sensing to show the decrease in plants quality and overal soil humidity in the southern region of Romania only that so a Climatology professor that assisted the conference to yell at us that our research is fake and we manipulated the data just because she's from southern Romania and haven't seen any desertification and that there are no real effects of the climate change xD.. I'm happy that this documentary shows the effects that even some "experts" are denying :)

  • @wolfg6136
    @wolfg6136 3 роки тому +3

    In my impression, the desert is only in North Africa, the Arabian region and the Mongolian plateau. It will not appear in European countries. This documentary surprised me. I did not expect that desertification would actually threaten the Danube countries. I hope the environmental protection ideals of these volunteers who guard their hometowns from being destroyed by the desert can be realized.

  • @UsuAli1
    @UsuAli1 3 роки тому

    Thank you DW! ❤️

  • @danielvanvance6297
    @danielvanvance6297 3 роки тому +20

    Maybe they may give a contact number before I visit Romania , and eventually I can support their work to protect the trees from growing desert there

    •  3 роки тому +4

      You can find him and a contact number on facebook. Search for Octavian Berceanu

  • @formercanadiancitizen4756
    @formercanadiancitizen4756 3 роки тому

    All the power too Octavian and greetings from Canada 🇨🇦

  • @portmoneul
    @portmoneul 3 роки тому +1

    DW for the win. Good job guys.

  • @Shkhano
    @Shkhano 3 роки тому +1

    Fantastic👍

  • @negomires2745
    @negomires2745 3 роки тому +1

    Damn man my high school was in Rovinari and i didnt knew abt the decertification problem there thanks for bringing light to the problem

  • @stefanghitescu6532
    @stefanghitescu6532 3 роки тому +1

    felicitari Octavian!

  • @alvinjoseph9315
    @alvinjoseph9315 3 роки тому +10

    It is the pure passion and high spirits of one man army like Octavian, this planet is still green and alive. Kudos to you gentleman!. Thanks DW, for the excellent story !

  • @anthonypeters8714
    @anthonypeters8714 3 роки тому +3

    Very important documentary by DW about climate change, so that our world can become Green Again.
    Hope government See's this to adapt. Thanks🌹🙏

    • @DWDocumentary
      @DWDocumentary  3 роки тому

      Hi @Anto Peters, thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts!

  • @carcotasu081
    @carcotasu081 3 роки тому +8

    Octavian will soon be the new Chief of the Environment Agency of Romania. So, good news. He will have the power and influence to do what is necessary.

  • @hithamthabet7777
    @hithamthabet7777 3 роки тому +1

    Thank DW channel about your documentary films.... I love your films, it's very stunning, and your reporting very excellent.
    Thank you so much ❤❤❤❤

    • @DWDocumentary
      @DWDocumentary  3 роки тому +1

      Hi @Hitham Thabet, we are glad you enjoy our documentaries, thanks for the positive feedback :)

    • @hithamthabet7777
      @hithamthabet7777 3 роки тому

      You are welcome, but this is the truth, you are the best channel

  • @Vayra78
    @Vayra78 3 роки тому +16

    They need to watch The Green Gold docu, about regreening the desert by Permaculture principles. John Dennis Liu 💚

    • @MrGigi-dz9cv
      @MrGigi-dz9cv 3 роки тому +1

      Or George Lawton.

    • @japanluv
      @japanluv 3 роки тому +3

      Yes. There are options to bring it back to life. All is needed is be put in practice.

    • @iliepetcan1736
      @iliepetcan1736 3 роки тому

      Actually we have soluțions since comunism regime but politiciana thry dont care

  • @bogg306
    @bogg306 3 роки тому +14

    Correction: "Save Romania" is part of the current coalition government. (After December elections.) This was filmed and likely edited last year.

    • @jeffjefferson8145
      @jeffjefferson8145 3 роки тому +2

      save romania is just the worst thing in our parliament

  • @danielvanvance6297
    @danielvanvance6297 3 роки тому +3

    He's my hero. Just do a right thing for our society

  • @sonyalargo6439
    @sonyalargo6439 3 роки тому +4

    We all need to help one another to start planting lotsa green, 👍🙏

  • @frostman7593
    @frostman7593 3 роки тому +1

    Nice documentary

  • @RJS76
    @RJS76 3 роки тому +2

    After seeing the whole documentary, I come to a common conclusion.. these documentaries are so good, so eye-opening and so in your face when it comes to the suffering of people and their homelands. Who are we to say that you shouldn't cut down trees to prepare your food or make "drinkable" water, who are we to say don't through your (plastic) garbage in the river and let it flow out into the sea.. is there an alternative? Do they have electricity, gas, water, sanitation, sewage treatment facilities, is there somebody that pick up garbage and sort it out responsibly? Getting by on 2-3 euros a day for a 12 hour hard labour unofficial job is something we all here in a world of comfort, insurances, social Healthcare, fixed prices, steady jobs & income should really think hard about.. Why does this persist in so many countries? Why are all the people condemned to looting thier natural resources? Its sad.. its sad to see so many people think if they scrape out a living by devastating their homeland to give their children an education that it will all work out.. No foreign investment is ever going to happen if 1) the foreign investors are crooks themselves and/or 2) you have to deal with the politions that simply have their own financial agendas.. . Back in the 80's I saw starving children in Afrika on television..30 years later and billions spend on everything under the sun... what changed?.. I praise the good of humanity 🙏.. but I really what i would prefer is those responsible for the delays is to be convicted for long jail sentences. All the people, all the animals big and small, insects, and all affected should at some point win over greedy money loving pigs..

    • @ralucaganga1974
      @ralucaganga1974 3 роки тому

      Romania made it to the high-income group of countries, with a gross national income (GNI) per capita of USD 12,630 in 2019, up from USD 11,290 in 2018 (current exchange rates), the World Bank announced. ... Romania ranks as the last of the high-income countries by GNI per capita, and the group is quite diverse.Jul 6, 2020

  • @nigangte6984
    @nigangte6984 3 роки тому +6

    Desert:aight imma slide through Romania
    Octavian:
    Desert: I don't feel so well

  • @dano4572
    @dano4572 3 роки тому

    keep up the good fight!

  • @tecomaman
    @tecomaman 3 роки тому +1

    Do you get the fallen leaves in autumn from the cities for mulch ?

  • @annefranklin4282
    @annefranklin4282 3 роки тому

    So knowledgeable

  • @ramongonzalez8960
    @ramongonzalez8960 3 роки тому

    Inspiring

  • @OhMrLee-zr5jv
    @OhMrLee-zr5jv 3 роки тому +1

    Perhaps when this tiring pandemic is finally, totally under control and people can travel again, Romania will open its door (again) to green tourists who are willing to work for environmentalists like Octavian. There is a group, a worldwide movement called WWOOF, that links international travelers to farmers that offer the opportunity to work with them in exchange for room and board. During my service as a flight attendant for Norwegian Air Long Haul, I had many overnights in London and got to meet and make friends with some of the nicest folks in the hotel industry there who came from Romania. I'm glad to say that they are now among my best friends. From Pennsylvania, USA I am sending folks in Romania so much love.

  • @kiranpatil2924
    @kiranpatil2924 3 роки тому +4

    I am Coming to Bucharest by April end

    • @falxus9962
      @falxus9962 3 роки тому +1

      Nothing good to you,here in Romania !!Is better do not come!Stay in your country!

    • @recoverhealth2062
      @recoverhealth2062 3 роки тому +1

      Please don't, you'll work like a slave for bad wages, something that you do in India anyway.

  • @sutapamazumdar1338
    @sutapamazumdar1338 3 роки тому

    👏👏 that's called true calling to make one's life purposeful and leave a legacy behind.

  • @Mona.2307
    @Mona.2307 3 роки тому

    ❣️ DW ❤️

  • @bencrawshaw1227
    @bencrawshaw1227 3 роки тому +23

    No way that's a coincidence I want become a guerilla Gardener. I'm planning as we speak.

  • @Kiyoone
    @Kiyoone 3 роки тому +1

    This is happening now for almost a decade in Brazilian sugar cane plantation fields... The owners of the land really do not care. The impact of making fuel for cars via ethanol from plants is absurd. Not only makes the soil nutrient poor, but also the fertilizers used in astronomical scales are polluting the rivers and creeks and the water bodies around those plantations. The warnings are there! You just need to take a walk inside those plantations to see it.

  • @tarikmehmedika2754
    @tarikmehmedika2754 9 місяців тому

    It is very important to preserve the nature for us and for future generations, for their lives not to be worse than they should. As one of my teachers said, we have not inherited the nature from our ancestors, but we have borrowed it from our children.

  • @marialianaciesielski4399
    @marialianaciesielski4399 3 роки тому +4

    Fantastically! It’s very real! I would like to know exactly the names of the places!

    • @dzsotdzsoti6347
      @dzsotdzsoti6347 3 роки тому +1

      Whatch it with subtitles and then you will see 😉👍

    • @zzzps777
      @zzzps777 3 роки тому +2

      Marsani ,Daneti pana la Dunare in Dabuleni

  • @margaritasun7908
    @margaritasun7908 3 роки тому +1

    My prayers for Sir Octavian , his supporters and their dreams for nature preservation. Let there be more of their likes.

  • @brentkuehne435
    @brentkuehne435 3 роки тому +24

    Looking at the aerial views , the land is spent due to poor agriculture practices. It will need to go back to native vegetation for many years ! The problem has little to do with climate change.

    • @MrTaxiRob
      @MrTaxiRob 3 роки тому +4

      You're saying that human activity caused the desertification, but it's not climate change? You and 17 idiots who liked your comment need to learn some basic logic skills.

  • @alexandruardelianu7667
    @alexandruardelianu7667 3 роки тому

    We are on your side! You are not alone

  • @gosho0
    @gosho0 3 роки тому

    1:15 - Why are you playing the Bulgarian Folk song "Prituri se planinata" in the background of a video about Romania?

  • @crystalianike
    @crystalianike 3 роки тому +22

    meanwhile, in Jakarta Indonesia slowly sinking the mother nature really try to speak with us by giving a signal.

    • @FlorinGN
      @FlorinGN 3 роки тому +2

      Huh? What happened there?

    • @complexaltruist
      @complexaltruist 3 роки тому +1

      Arent areas sinking faster because they are sucking up too much ground water which is collapsing the earth?

    • @SikhoGuwa
      @SikhoGuwa 3 роки тому +3

      @@complexaltruist true and the water underground can't be refilled because there is so many concrete buildings separating the soil from the rain water

    • @complexaltruist
      @complexaltruist 3 роки тому

      @@SikhoGuwa does the government on any level want to invest in desalination plants? Or even water vapor condensers?

    • @SikhoGuwa
      @SikhoGuwa 3 роки тому

      @@complexaltruist don't know

  • @horiap77
    @horiap77 3 роки тому +1

    The little Walachia is the Great Oltenia :) I miss the Dabuleni water melons, those little dark green ones not the striped ones...

  • @markbattersby7253
    @markbattersby7253 3 роки тому +1

    the man is an inspiration

  • @yt-xo4lb
    @yt-xo4lb 3 роки тому +4

    More vegetation, more clouds, more power.

  • @dannyk847
    @dannyk847 3 роки тому +2

    Watching from 🇨🇦

  • @MrHriskoch
    @MrHriskoch 3 роки тому +2

    Here you have used Bulgarian folklore! Prituri se planinata at 0.58! DW Documentary? :)

  • @mrznjaci
    @mrznjaci 3 роки тому +4

    Okay, I can understand everything, but to plant an invasive tree species (black locust - called acacia in this video), that I don't understand. I mean, maybe once in the future they decide to restore the natural vegetation in this area (various types of oak woodland) - black locust would be almost impossible to eradicate... Planting mono-cultures of trees does not make a forest - forest is far more than that.

    • @sporo2000
      @sporo2000 3 роки тому

      Perhaps you were not listening to the narrative. The acacias are a temporary measure to allow the soil and the vegetation to be restored. Once that happens the acacias will be replaced. The native trees do not thrive in the current conditions.

    • @mrznjaci
      @mrznjaci 3 роки тому +1

      ​@@sporo2000 I admit I missed that part. Nevertheless, black locust would be very very hard to replace once it's got established. You can cut it, you can even dig it out, but it will sprout from any remaining roots for decades after the original tree has been cut. I live just across the border, in Serbia, I know what I am talking about. Quercus pubescens (downy oak) and Quercus robur (English oak) should do okay in the sands - they grow on send dunes here in Serbia in areas adjacent to Romania. I'm afraid black locust is there to stay, forever.

  • @1974dodgecharger
    @1974dodgecharger 3 роки тому +10

    We all have responsibilities to plant sustainable trees. 🤔 100 per person

  • @mascarpone-1337
    @mascarpone-1337 3 роки тому +1

    He's now Chief of the National Environmental Guard 👍🏻

  • @Sour_pussy
    @Sour_pussy 3 роки тому +2

    After the december revolution, it was absolutly necesary to destroy the irigation sistem, was it not?

  • @subratadhar7698
    @subratadhar7698 3 роки тому

    god bless Octavian. You are a hero.

  • @mihaistoica2238
    @mihaistoica2238 3 роки тому

    Bravo Octavian , as vrea sa te sustin , stau in Bucuresti si inteleg situatia.
    gasim o modalitate sa donez din impozit catre tine sau ong sustinut de tine ? sper ca esti pe aici

  • @josephmessner5312
    @josephmessner5312 3 роки тому +24

    This is far far less about climate change and more about human misintervention and mismanagement. It may be trendy and eye catching to throw the label of “climate change” on the situation, but that’s largely dishonest.

    • @adoatero5129
      @adoatero5129 3 роки тому

      - "This is far far less about climate change and more about human misintervention and mismanagement."
      And what do you know that from? Because they tell about the "misintervention" and mismanagement on the video. They actually talk about it much more than about the climate change. Because of that, I think the following edited version of your comment would match the reality of the video better:
      - So this case of desertification seems to be more about human misintervention and mismanagement than the climate change. I thank the makers of the video for finding that out and telling us about it. It would have been trendy and eye catching to just throw the label of “climate change” on the situation, but in accordance with the principles of good journalism, they wanted to find out and convey us the whole picture.

    • @Jimmy4video
      @Jimmy4video 3 роки тому +1

      It's just a coincidence that the same issues exist across southern Europe? Nope, climate change is real and a major factor in the problem seen here.

  • @swrtsolutionsinc.1092
    @swrtsolutionsinc.1092 2 роки тому

    irrigation+rainfall = evaporation + transpiration + runoff + leaching
    Which one of these processes do Farmers really have control over during the growing season? If you have the ability to irrigate your sandy soils and water is cheap and plentiful, then you are fortunate and have some control on the left side of the equation. If you do not have irrigation, you must look at the factors on the right side of the equation to see what can be controlled or minimized to benefit your crop. Evaporation from the soil surface can be reduced with mulch or leaving crop residue on the soil surface. Transpiration is a function of the plant leaf surface area and the weather. Runoff is or should be minimal in sandy textured soils with high percolation rates.
    This leaves the leaching of water out of the root zone as the #1 controllable loss of moisture to your crop. Interrupting the downward movement of moisture in your soil by installing a "smart" barrier can greatly reduce the leaching of water and nutrients. SWRT subsurface membranes detain/retain up to 90% of irrigation or rainfall in the root zone for crop use by disrupting the gravitational movement of water in the soil while still allowing excess water to percolate and do not create anaerobic soil conditions.

  • @davesbainrps6909
    @davesbainrps6909 3 роки тому +3

    Large tree clearing did the damage

  • @kucam12mischablue
    @kucam12mischablue 3 роки тому +1

    Why don’t they plant trees around the area?

  • @sonyalargo6439
    @sonyalargo6439 3 роки тому +10

    Good idea plant a tree on your birthday, 🙏

    • @GQ2593
      @GQ2593 3 роки тому

      Alternative idea: fill your fuel tank and drive a few victory rounds to accelerate global warming. Higher temperatures = better summer weather = great tanning for everyone.

  • @jop5400
    @jop5400 6 місяців тому

    18 euro a day is not enough to get by in Romania. It's more expensive than one would think.

  • @_al_c2638
    @_al_c2638 3 роки тому

    Congrats good people. Chapeau

  • @iliepetcan1736
    @iliepetcan1736 3 роки тому +2

    În the time of Ceaușescu he wanted to plant a lot of trees and even the specialist from Craiova invented a way to save the south of Roumania and actually we have a lot of studys IT from the time of Ceaușescu,even șo my father whn he was Young all his colleagues frydays took all the Kids to plant trees all the tipe of trees

  • @bitty5095
    @bitty5095 3 роки тому +6

    Lemons and oranges would do good in the sandy soil!!

    • @winbooo1104
      @winbooo1104 3 роки тому

      not really, they need a lot of rain

    • @bitty5095
      @bitty5095 3 роки тому

      @@winbooo1104 I live in So. Ca. we have lots of orange groves Israel grows oranges Spain does as well . Not much rain in Spain.Neither in Israel or So. Ca.

    • @winbooo1104
      @winbooo1104 3 роки тому +1

      @Bitty Yes but it's still freezing cold in the winter unlike spain and Israel

    • @bitty5095
      @bitty5095 3 роки тому

      @@winbooo1104 Yes you have a point there , I did not think about their winters...

    • @recoverhealth2062
      @recoverhealth2062 3 роки тому

      Lettuce does well also, anything without deep roots, also broccoli, artichokes, beta vulgaris.

  • @gfrankreddi3196
    @gfrankreddi3196 3 роки тому +1

    Nature: I'll swallow you soon😡😡😡
    Humans: pls give me one more chance!!😵

  • @lucansanchez5129
    @lucansanchez5129 3 роки тому

    Hundreds of trees will drop thousands of leaves for regeneration of soil. Grass doesn't grow where there is shade from trees. Trees create shade that protects moisture in ground. All organic waste can be turned in to the ground where trees and other plants grow. All plants protect the ground by creating shade that protects the soil.

  • @johnroydelacruz1433
    @johnroydelacruz1433 3 роки тому

    I hope you can make another vid about nature and climate change

    • @DWDocumentary
      @DWDocumentary  3 роки тому

      Hi @John Roy Dela Cruz, thanks for watching and for your comment! For more documentaries on nature and climate change, you might like to check out this playlist: ua-cam.com/play/PLovlAKbQVz6D2c8fc_GNgofSbJQsSfHVd.html 🙂 We hope you find lots of topics of interest.

  • @RosenIvanovPetkov
    @RosenIvanovPetkov 2 роки тому

    The song at 12:50 is Bulgarian not Romanian. You can clearly hear the lyrics are in Bulgarian.

  • @anonviewerciv
    @anonviewerciv 3 роки тому

    Soil shielding. (9:49)
    18:00 Opportunity.