Romsilva

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Romsilva
Company type
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
Websitewww.rosilva.ro

Regia Naţională a Pădurilor Romsilva or simply Romsilva is a

preservation and development of publicly owned forests of the Romanian state, and the management of hunting and fishing grounds. Romsilva owns and manages 4,000,000 hectares (9,900,000 acres) of forests which represents 65% of all forests in the country.[1] The company has its headquarters in Bucharest
.

Activity

Romsilva owns and manages 4,000,000 hectares (9,900,000 acres) of forests or around 65% of Romania's 6,300,000 hectares (16,000,000 acres) overall forests.

In 2009 Romsilva also harvested 6,750 metric tons of forest berries including vaccinium myrtillus, hippophae rhamnoides, rosa canina, vaccinium vitis-idaea, blackberry, crataegus monogyna and rubus idaeus, of which 3,100 metric tons were exported to Germany, Austria, France and the Netherlands.[4][5] Romsilva is also an important fungus producer, having a total production of 25 metric tons of chanterelle, armillaria mellea, boletus edulis and morchella spongiola in 2009.[6][7] The company also exported 2,650 rabbits and 3,000 pheasants mainly to Italy.[4]

Romsilva publishes Revista pădurilor,[8] the oldest journal published without interruption from Romania and one of the oldest forestry journals in the world.[9]

Controversy

According to Dimitrova & Buzogány (2014) "Romsilva was regarded as the main culprit behind the dramatic rise in illegal logging during the last decade, resulting in irreparable losses in forested territories. Its leadership has been accused of illegally contributing to campaign budgets of governing parties and of corrupt decisions in numerous local and national public procurement cases."[10]

Corruption within Romsilva is rampant and employees who have spoken out against their corrupt superiors have been threatened and assaulted.[11]

References

  1. ^ a b "Romsilva a alocat peste 11 mil. lei pentru regenerarea padurilor". Wall Street Journal. 2007-02-14. Retrieved 2010-09-15.
  2. ^ "Aspecte generale privind fondul forestier al Romaniei". Romsilva. 2004. Retrieved 2010-09-15.
  3. ^ "Romsilva: Pierderi de peste un milion lei in S1". Wall Street Journal. 2009. Retrieved 2010-09-15.
  4. ^ a b c "Romsilva: Incasari de 7 mil. euro din exportul de fructe si din vanatoare, in 2008". Wall Street Journal. 2009. Retrieved 2010-09-15.
  5. ^ "Fructe de padure". Romsilva. 2009. Retrieved 2010-09-15.
  6. ^ "Ciuperci comestibile". Romsilva. 2009. Retrieved 2010-09-15.
  7. ^ "Anunt de participare la licitatie deschisa achizitie publica servicii prelucrare ciuperci". Romsilva. 2009. Retrieved 2010-09-15.
  8. ^
    ISSN 1583-7890
    . 16780. Retrieved 2012-05-09.
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  9. ^
    ISSN 1583-7890. Archived from the original
    on 2016-05-17. Retrieved 2012-04-06.
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  10. ^ http://www.diss.fu-berlin.de/docs/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/FUDOCS_derivate_000000006082/Dimitrova_et_al-2014-JCMS-_Journal_of_Common_Market_Studies.pdf[bare URL PDF]
  11. ^ Ellis, Glenn. "'Timber Mafia' threatens the future of Romania's ancient forests". www.aljazeera.com. Al Jazeera. Retrieved 3 December 2020.

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