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Florin Horia Baros waits outside his two-story, wood-shingle farmhouse in Satic, a village in Romania's Carpathian Mountains, his face like thunder.
羅馬尼亞喀爾巴阡山脈的塞提克村里，弗羅林·荷里亞·巴羅斯在兩層樓高、有木瓦屋頂的農舍外等候，一臉怒容。
Around midnight the farmer was startled by a commotion from the sheds holding his pigs.
這名農場主人在半夜被豬棚的一場騷動嚇到。
"The bear came along the street, over the fence, broke the door off the shed, and attacked the pigs. I chased him off with my dogs," he says.
“有只熊從街上走過來，翻過柵欄，把門打破，攻擊棚子里的豬。我和我的狗把它趕走了。”他說。
Hours later, the brown bear circled back, targeting another shed. Now, two pigs lie dead in the yard.
幾小時后，那只棕熊繞回來，以另一個豬棚為目標。此刻院子里躺著兩只死豬。
A third, though still alive, staggers stupefied around the pen, its back stripped by the bear's teeth and claws. A fourth is missing.
第三只豬仍活著，在圍欄內歪歪倒倒來回走動，它的背被棕熊的牙齒和爪子撕裂。第四只豬不知去向。
Baros, also a veterinarian, is considering putting the wounded pig out of its misery but has decided to wait for a local commission to arrive. "I want them to see what that bear has done," he says.
巴羅斯也是獸醫，正考慮讓這只受傷的豬解脫，但決定等當地委員會到場。“我要讓他們看看那只熊干了什么好事。”他說。
It's the morning after the attack, and I'm accompanying Bogdan Sulica, whose unrattled self-assurance suggests he's used to difficult conversations.
那是在棕熊攻擊事件后的早晨，而我陪同博格丹·蘇利卡，他泰然處之的自信態度顯示他已習慣這種棘手的應對場合。
Sulica heads a rapid intervention team at Foundation Conservation Carpathia, an organization that, since 2009, has been working to win local support to protect the region's endangered forests and wildlife.
蘇利卡是喀爾巴阡保護基金會的快速調停小組組長，這個基金會從2009年以來一直在努力爭取當地支持，要保護喀爾巴阡地區瀕臨滅絕的森林和野生動物。
Funded by international philanthropists and one of the largest European Union environment grants, Conservation Carpathia has its sights set on establishing a new national park covering 500,000 acres in the Fagaras range of the Carpathians.
在各國慈善家和歐盟歷來最高額環境補助款之一的經費資助下，喀爾巴阡保護基金會決心要在弗格拉什山脈（喀爾巴阡山脈的一部分）成立一座占地50萬英畝的新國家公園。
Some see it as the Yellowstone of Europe: With so few wilderness areas left, it's perhaps the continent's last chance to create a national park on a vast scale.
保護人士把它稱為歐洲的黃石公園：在荒野地區所剩無幾的情況下，這是歐洲大陸擁有大規模國家公園的難得機會。
The forested ravines and 8,000-foot peaks of the Fagaras make up one of the largest unsettled areas in central Europe, sheltering spectacularly diverse habitats: coniferous forest with wetlands, alpine ridges and meadows, and high-altitude willow, rowan, and birch forests, with spruce, fir, elm, sycamore, and beech on lower slopes.
弗格拉什山脈林木生長的深谷和8000英尺高的山峰，形成了中歐最大的無人居住地區之一，庇護了多樣性極為豐富的棲地：帶有濕地的針葉林、高山脊和草原，高海拔的山柳、花楸和銀樺林，以及較低海拔坡地上的云杉、冷杉、白榆、懸鈴樹和山毛櫸。
At least 1,500 animal and plant species -- including rare birds such as golden eagles, wall creepers, and Ural owls -- are found here, as well as wild boars, wolves, lynx, and, of course, bears.
這里至少有1500種動植物，包括金雕、旋壁雀和長尾林鸮等稀有鳥類，還有野豬、灰狼、猞猁，當然還有熊。
Sulica's job is to help resolve wild animal conflicts in towns and villages scattered around the fringes of the project. He's had little sleep.
蘇利卡的工作是負責協助解決國家公園計劃周邊城鎮與村莊的野生動物沖突。他的睡眠時間很少。
"This bear has killed 11 pigs in the last four days," he says. "But worse, it shows no fear of humans or dogs. And it's clever. It never comes to the same place twice."
他說：“過去四天，這只熊已經殺死了11只豬。但更糟的是，它不怕人也不怕狗，而且很聰明，同一個地方不會去第二次。”
