Bruno Manser Fund: Oligarchs may destroy one of Ukraine’s most pristine landscapes By Bruno Manser Fund. Published June 19, 2019. Updated June 19 at 11:55 am Tourists trek among the Maramures Mountains (part of the Carpathians) in Zakarpattia Oblast on March 16, 2018. Photo by Oleg Petrasiuk A planned mega ski resort in the Ukrainian Carpathians threatens some of Europe’s last primeval beech forests. Read more here.