Elona Elezi

2 weeks ago | dw.com | Elona Elezi |Marta Abbà

"Don't go there; you'll be eaten by the bear," we were told by four men in the village of Lekbibaj in the region of Tropoja in northern Albania. The men's "advice" was clearly a warning to us that it would be better to stay away. We stopped in Lekbibaj on our way to Vrana e Madhe, where a group of residents denounced the illegal felling of trees in the local forest about two years ago. On the road to Lekbibaj we passed many trucks loaded with massive logs.