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Aerial view over wooded hills in light morning mist, a green clearing and a dirt forest road — illustrative image.
NATIONAL

Moldova counts its forests for the first time in history. In Ungheni, no one officially knows even how much is left

The government has approved the first National Forest Inventory in the history of the Republic of Moldova — a five-year process worth 2.4 million euros, funded largely by Romania. Only then will the country know exactly how much forest it has. For Ungheni district the stakes are direct: official statistics publish no forest-cover percentage for the district, while the forests managed here — from the Plaiul Fagului reserve to the strips beside the villages — are quietly cut in winter for firewood.

Ion Calmis·18 June 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
A study desk with an open laptop on a video call with several windows, next to French textbooks, an open dictionary, a notebook with notes and small flags of France and the Republic of Moldova — illustrative image.
EDUCATION & HEALTH

In Ungheni, an agro-industrial college brought students closer to French through an online project with schools in Romania and Orhei

The Agro-Industrial College in Ungheni has completed a cross-border online education project dedicated to the French language and Francophonie, together with two schools in Romania and one in Orhei. The project runs against the current: in the Moldovan school, French has dropped from the most studied foreign language some fifteen years ago to just one in three students today.

Ion Calmis·18 June 2026· News