At present, approximately 2000 wild horses still survive on Letea Island (10,500 hectares). They are the last wild horses in Europe - the only wild horses still living at large on the European continent. The Letea area in the Danube Delta was put under protection in 1930 and became a national reserven in 1938. Due to its floristic and ecological particularities, its different types of habitats, the Letea forest is a unique natural asset in Romania and Europe. Unfortunately, especially in the winter period, the horses take refuge in the forest, where they cause significant ecological damage, by eating off the bark of young trees and destroying the herbaceous (grass) cover and the natural seeds on the forest ground.

The project aim is to find solutions to preserve the biodiversity threatened by the incompatibility between the survival of wild horses in the Letea Natural Reserve, and the need to protect the Letea forest ecosystem, as welll as to enhance the inhabitants’ welfare and living standard by sustainable development methods – stimulating agri-tourism and equestrian tourism. The main objectiv of an ecologist artist beeing the protection of animals, environmental preservation and protection, this project help to educate children and young people in an ecological spirit, attitude of tolerance, compassion and charity, respect for all sentient beings, for nature and the environment. As a multifunctional project, its components are targetting at decreasing poverty and ensuring means of subsistence for the rural population around the preservation area, which is surrounded by agricultural landscapes of great variety, but endangered, with a significant global biodiversity. The awareness-raising component is meant to spread information and project results, to render public opinion more sensitive and responsive regarding the value and nobleness of horses , the special relation between horse and man.