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Danube Delta Flora and Fauna

As a young region in full process of consolidation, the Danube Delta represents a very favorable place for the development of a flora and fauna unique in Europe with numerous rare species.
The aquatic medium is prevalent, so that the flora and fauna will be aquatic.
Between the aquatic and terrestrial mediums, the swampy, easily flooded medium is interposing, which has a special flora and fauna, with alternative possibilities of adaptation (water, land) depending on the seasonal and yearly hydrological regime.

There are many ecosystem to be found, each one with its characteristics:

• the running water
• the stagnant water
• the wetland and flooded areas
• the fluvial and marine levees
• the amended areas (for agriculture, silviculture and pisciculture).

The Danube Delta, included in the UNESCO Program as a Reservation of the Biosphere:

• is harboring about 1,150 vegetable species, being considered one of the most compact surfaces on the globe. First of all reeds on a surface of 300,000 ha, than trees (willow, poplar, lime, oak etc.), aquatic flora (white water lily and yellow water lily, lotus, carnivorous plants, amphibious plants etc.) and even garlands of lianas offering a tropical aspect.
• is the absolute paradise of about 300 species of birds. It is housing about 60% of world number of small cormorants, most colonies of common and curly feathered pelicans as well as other worldwide known and appreciated valuable species: geese with red neck or arctic geese, white herons or egrets, common, yellow or red herons, night or dwarfish herons, white and black swans, white egret and eagles.
• houses a number of terrestrial species: wolf, fox with black belly, enot dog, bizam, deer, otter, mink, little ermine, wild boar, wild cat etc.
• fish, due to its variety, represents one of the most important treasures of the Danube Delta. 60 of the species have a good economic value (carps, breams, sheat fishes, tenches, pikes and zanders; during the migration season: common sturgeons and great sturgeons, makerels, grey mullets etc.)