The flora and fauna of the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve, which entered UNESCO's World Heritage list in 1991, constitute a true natural treasure, distinguished by the multitude and variety of its elements, encompassing both endemic species and those characteristic of other regions.
The flora of the Delta comprises thousands of diverse species, spread in multiple areas - marshes, deciduous forests or natural salty soil levees. Among them: reeds, cattail, lianas (each represented by 4 species), the common bladderwort (carnivorous plant) and, of course, the camera favorite, the water lily, with its five species, three white and two yellow. Plus a wide variety of trees: the ash, the poplar, the alder and the oak which can be found especially in the secular forests Letea and Caraorman.
The fauna includes over 300 species of birds: the curly or the common pelican, the cormorant, the stork, the swan or the white-tailed eagle (the largest predatory bird in the Danube Delta); freshwater fish species (carp, zander, pike, catfish etc.), saltwater species (gray mullet, turbot, horse mackerel, bluefish etc.) but also species such as the shad or sturgeons, which migrate from the Black Sea to spawn in the Danube.
The fauna of the Danube Delta also includes molluscs (snails and clams), crustaceans (crayfish and crabs - on the seashore), amphibians (frogs and turtles), reptiles (lizards and snakes, including a poisonous species of viper) and mammals, such as the jackal or the racoon dog, the latter being a symbol of the Delta.
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