THE ANTHROPIC IMPACT IN THE NORTH-WESTERN SIDE OF LEAOTA MOUNTAINS

• Main Authors: Magdalin Leonard Dorobăţ, Codruţa Mihaela Dobrescu
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Editura Universitatii din Pitesti 2016-12-01
• Series: Current Trends in Natural Sciences
• Subjects: negative human intervention impact; overgrazing; deforestation; tourism; Leaota
• Online Access: https://www.upit.ro/_document/11954/paper_10.pdf

Leaota Mountains are located between Bucegi Mountains and the Piatra Craiului Massive, being separated from the last ones through the Bran-Rucar-Dragoslavele Corridor. Their human intervention degree is much lower than in the case of the neighboring Massive, Bucegi, also due to the fact that they are less known by tourists and by the lower degree deforestation which had been made here. Though the tourism has reduced, being limited only to the Cheii Valley and rarely, during summer, to the Ghimbav Valley, can have a negative impact on the environment through the waste left at the camping places or edge of the road or in the waters. It is mandatory, for the area’s sustainable development, the urgent limitation of the negative human intervention.