Biodiversity conservation and community development in Transylvania
Conservarea biodiversităţii şi dezvoltare comunitară în Transilvania

Publications

The Historic Countryside of the Saxon Villages of Southeast Transylvania

‘This book introduces the remote Saxon Villages district of southern Transylvania in Romania. One of Europe’s least known cultural treasures, the countryside presents a remarkable survival of medieval landscape: fortified churches, unspoilt villages, non intensive mixed farming in ecological balance with nature and wildlife, set amongst old-growth woodland and wildflower-rich hay-meadows. Such natural beauty and richness is no mere assemblage of fragments, but an intact integral whole – of inestimable scientific, cultural and human value.’ says author John Akeroyd

The book contains over 120 high quality photographs and is available in English and Romanian and on sale at the ADEPT Tourist Information Centre, Saschiz for €10 per copy and by mail order direct from Fundatia ADEPT Ltd, 32 Oakley Road, Chinnor, Oxon, OX39 4HB, England for £12 per copy including postage. Please order by sending payment (sterling cheques only) with your name and full postal address. Alternatively buy on-line from www.amazon.co.uk.

Tourist maps

Orange map

ADEPT have published the first in a series of tourist maps:

1:50,000 map of the Tarnava Mara area (sheet numbers 1 & 2 – double sided)

1:25,000 map of the Ţara Branului area including trails recorded with GPS (sheet number 3)

Both are available from:
the Tourist Information Centre in Saschiz, or
by mail order direct from Fundatia ADEPT Ltd, 32 Oakley Road, Chinnor, Oxon, OX39 4HB, England for £3.50 per copy including postage. Please order by sending payment (sterling cheques only) with your name and full postal address.
- alternatively buy the Tarnava Mare map on-line from www.amazon.co.uk

Minimum food hygiene and food safety conditions for small producers

This 24-page booklet for small producers was launched in Bucharest on 10 April 2008. It was written by ADEPT Foundation, Milvus Group and WWF-Danube Carpathian Programme.

The aim of the booklet is to clarify the minimum conditions which small producers have to meet after Romania’s EU entry, and to help small producers - so important for Romania’s rural economy, landscape and culture – to prosper within the European Union.

It is available gratis in 3 languages, Romanian, Hungarian, English, from the Tourist Information Centre in Saschiz. The booklet can also be downloaded here:
Romanian version
Hungarian version
English version

The booklet has been produced with support of ANSVSA (National Sanitary Veterinary & Food Safety Authority), EU Representation in Bucharest, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Orange Romania, and Ratiu Family Foundation.

Guides to wildlife of the area

Fundaţia ADEPT will publish pocket guides to the wildlife of the area in late 2009 (initially in Romanian, subsequently in English):

Ghidul Păsărilor din Siturile Natura 2000
Sighişoara-Târnava Mare şi Podişul Hârtibaciului
by Milvus Group

Ghidul Floristic din siturile Natura 2000
Sighişoara-Târnava Mare şi Podişul Hârtibaciului
by Dr John Akeroyd

Ghidul Fluturilor din siturile Natura 2000
Sighişoara-Târnava Mare şi Podişul Hârtibaciului
by Prof. Laszlo Rakosy.

These will promote appreciation of the fauna and flora by local people and by visitors to the area.

Food Hygiene, John Taylor

This manual, published 2008, supports the training course offered by ADEPT for entry level food handling and processing. It is also a general book on hygiene for the food industry. It is supported with an internationally recognized certificate from the Royal Society for Public Health.

The courses are aimed at people interested in providing tourism services or in processing food products for sale. Interested companies or individuals interested in training are invited to contact Fundatia ADEPT.

For further details or to purchase the book contact ADEPT.

Downloads

The Saxon Villages Region of southeast Transylvania - 2007

UK Darwin Initiative supported the preparation and publication of research work carried out in the ADEPT project area: see Volume IV: The Saxon Villages Region of southeast Transylvania - 2007 , in the series published by Transylvanian Review of Systematical and Ecological Research (University Lucian Blaga Sibiu).

A Taste of Transylvania
An overview of the Tarnava Mare area, with map
Download here (1.6mb pdf)

Saschiz brochure
Download here (230k pdf)

Food and Culture tours
A 12-page brochure describing local food and its traditional production in the Tarnava Mare area.
Download here (3.6mb pdf)