The Slideshow of the Carpathian Mountains' sights was accompanying the opening remarks by Mr. Harald Egerer, Head of the UNEP Vienna Office - Interim Secretariat of the Carpathian Convention.

1. The Carpathians – Europe’s treasure

94. The Carpathians

99. The Carpathian Mountains are Europe‘s last great
wilderness area – a bastion for large carnivores, with
over half the continent‘s population of bears, wolves
and lynx, and home to the greatest remaining reserves
of old growth forests outside of Russia.

100. Photo credits: Andreas Beckmann, Andrei Blumer, Ovidiu Bodean, Dan Dinu, Konstantin Ivanov, Hildegard Meyer, Bogdan Papuc, Bohdan Prots, Juraj Vysoky, Lies Willaert, Wild Wonders of Europe /
Ruben Smit / WWF
Music: Volcano Choir – „Sleepymouth“
(c) 2013 WWF-DCP. The WWF Danube-Carpathian Programme gratefully acknowledges funding support from the European Commision. Commission.
This natural heritage and the rich cultural traditions and
livelihoods, opportunities and future connected with it
are shared by the people living in the Carpathians from
the Czech Republic, across Poland, Slovakia , Ukraine
and Hungary and down to Romania and Serbia.