THE DANUBE DELTA - BIOSPHERE RESERVE
Due to its significance, the Danube Delta has been comprised into UNESCO Patrimony and it was decreed Reservation of the Biosphere in 1990, thus being created a special statute of its protection and administration. On this purpose has been founded the Administration of the Reservation the Danube Delta Biosphere, a government organism which is encharged with the administration of the Reservation territory. Beside the nature protection, ARBDD has as its objective the development of the tourism also, and especially, the echo-tourism.
The Danube Delta- Natural Reserves
On the basis of the existing secondary and main reservations - established by the necessity for the preservation of the natural process of evolution, for the specific flora and fauna protection - strictly protected precincts with a surface of approx. 50000 hectares were specified. Three distinct units may be noticed by in large:
1. ROSCA - BUHAIOVA - LETEA - reference points of the 12000 hectares localized in Matita depression from the North of the Big M (Sulina branch). Rosca lake, Merhei and a joining of lakes, reed marshes, table lands house huge colonies of pelicans, egrets, herons
2. SACALIN - ZATOANE - lies in the South of St. Ghe. County on approx. 21000 ha coterminous to the coast. It is a succession of sand banks with isolated lakes, marsh areas, river waters and salmastres, sandy swamps, reed, crossed by parallel dunes.
3. PERITEASCA - BISERICUTA - (in translation "The little Church") - GURA PORTITEI (in translation "The Mouth of the Little Gate") continues to the South the previous reservation, with more than 4000 ha. It individualizes by dry sand banks wet by the sea or by the Razim Lake waters, favorable especially to the existence of the birds of salty banks and in those in passage.
In total there are 18 strictly protected areas. To the above add Raducu (2500 ha), Nebunu (115 ha), Rodundu (228 ha), Potcoava (652 ha), Vatafu - Lunguletu (1625 ha), Caraorman (2250 ha), Saraturi - Murighiol (87 ha), Erenciuc (50 ha), Belciug (110 ha), Popina (98 ha), Dolosman Cape (125 ha), Grindul Lupilor (2075 ha) and Chituc (2300 ha), Istria - Sinoe (400 ha).
According to the mentioned protection law, the approval of any change of place in the area is under the competence of the Administration of the Reservation of the Danube Delta Biosphere (ARBDD)
The Danube Delta - Forests - Monuments of Nature
On the Delta land surface one can notice the high vegetation, in the majority the willow tree, the poplar (afforested) and rare species in the areas declared reservations.
Letea is the monument-forest situated at 7 km south of Periprava (Chilia branch). It developed on the sand branch with the same name, in strips; it presents climbing plants of Mediterranean origin, in the shape of lianas among specific trees - grey oaks (age-old of more than 25 m height), elms, alders, white and black poplars, willows, fluffy ash trees (botanical rarity). It shelters eagles, snakes and vipers.
Caraorman, a monument-forest located in the west of the sand bank with the same name between the branches Sulina and St. Gheorghe, is a formation of trees in groups (clusters). The flora and the fauna resemble with the above.
Erenciuc, situated in the south extremity of the homonymous lake, is the single natural forest of alder trees from the Delta. The eagle nestles here.
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