A tale of beauty and corruption (Montenegro): Friction
Sinja(je)vina is a huge limestone plateau, over 400 km2 in size, which together with Durmitor makes more than 1,000 km2 of continues mountain pastures, the largest of the Balkans and one of the biggest in Europe, that provides home and livelihood to over 250 families of mobile pastoralists and small farmers.
For hundreds of years, if not thousands, the herders and farmers of Sinja(je)vina which is known with both names (with and without the «je» between parenthesis) have governed, protected and cared for their grasslands, as one would protect one’s own family. Organized as a cluster of different pastoral commons, they are responsible for the conservation of a landscape whose special value and unique biodiversity has been recognized as a UNESCO Biosphere reserve.