From a demographic point of view, the population decline and ageing trend in the 4 targeted communities determine a continuous decrease of the anthropic impact pressures from the locals. This tendency favorable to maintaining the conservation state is higher in the communes close to the site ((Nistoreşti, Paltin, Vrâncioaia) and lower in Nereju commune.
The communities in and around the protected natural area have developed an economy based mostly on exploiting and capitalizing natural resources. Thus, due to isolation and the small area of meadows, the site itself is of no economic importance for animal agriculture, but this activity is relevant to the subsistence agriculture of the communities, as meadows and grasslands are the second category of land use, after forests. Also, the high percentage of forest vegetation (72,5% in total and 83,3% on the territory of Nereju commune) determines the development of wood industry (82% of the total turnover of the economic agents in the 4 communes, namely over 90% of the local economic activities), from this perspective the area being defined as mono-industrial
