Romania - Danube Biodiversity The Danube:"The greatest treasure with which nature has endowed our countries"
What is biodiversity? BIODIVERSITY – the variety of all life forms: the different plants, animals, fungi and microorganisms, the genes they contain, the ecosystems of which they form a part… Biodiversity is greater than the sum of its parts. HEALTHY BIODIVERSITY A healthy biodiversity provides a number of natural services for everyone: Protection of water resources, Soils formation and protection, Contribution to climate stability, Food, Medicinal resources , Wood products, Diversity in genes, species and ecosystems, Recreation and tourism, Cultural values.
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Biodiversity
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variety of all life forms: the different plants, animals, fungi and microorganisms, the genes they contain, the ecosystems of which they form a part… Biodiversity is greater than the sum of its parts.
Treasure of biodiversity Diversity includes RICHNESS. The number of species per sample is a measure of richness.
Treasure of biodiversity The Danube Delta – Europe’s second-largest, but best preserved, delta – is an array of winding canals, marshes, rivers and lakes, replete with lush vegetation Highest priority for conservation in Romania should be on: The Danube Delta complex of ecosystems; Low attitude, broad-leaved forests on the plains; Danube River floodplain ecosystems – especially the shallow lakes; Brackish water lagoons. The Danube Delta is the place where hundreds of species of birds exist, including pelicans, swans, wild geese and flamingos, birds that are protected by law. The delta is also a seasonal stopover for migratory birds.pelicansswans wild geeseflamingos The Danube Delta has been awarded the status of Biosphere Reserve in 1990, and has been registered as Ramsar Site and world natural heritage site since 1991. It is the largest delta in Europe and conserves a very wide range of biodiversity specific to wetlands.
I like pelicans! The white pelican is the symbol of the Danube Delta
Treasure of biodiversity in Danube Region Birds in the Danube Delta drawing with template
Cormorants Phalacrocoracidae is a family of some 40 species of aquatic birds commonly known as cormorants
Cormorants and shags are medium-to-large birds, with body weight in the range of 0.35–5 kilograms (0.77–11.02 lb) and wing span of 45– 100 centimetres (18–39 in).
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cormorant
cormorant
cormorant
cormorants
cormorant
cormorant
cormorants
cormorants
Great egret
Great egret
Great egret
The little egret, its bill is black and the big egret has a red-orange color bill.
Great egret
Great egret
The great egret—unlike the typical egrets—does not belong to the genus Egretta but together with the great herons is today placed in Ardea. In the past, however, it was sometimes placed in Egretta or separated in a monotypic genus Casmerodius.
Diversity of Fishes Out of the over 25,000 species of fish worldwide, some counting for more than 450 million years of age, 300 could be seen in Europe and 135 in the Danube Delta
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Posters with fishs
I LIKE FISHES!
I like sturgeons! Sturgeons represent a natural heritage of the Danube River Basin and key indicator species for high ecological quality of rivers. Their dramatic decline in the last decades has become an issue of basin-wide importance that got the attention of the Danube countries and the European Commission.
I LIKE STURGEONS! I LIKE CAVIAR!
I like fishes The fish fauna in the Danube Delta has a remarkable variety, comprising 135 species. Most of these are freshwater species but also marine species as well as eurihaline species living in the Black Sea and penetrating into the Delta and the Danube during the breeding season.
The sturgeon group (prohibition species for a period of 10 years from 2006)
Western Marsh-harrier Reed erect is a migratory bird that is present in the danube delta between march and october. Feeds chicken and bird eggs but also small rodents.
Riding over the bushes, elegant in flight, but quickly needed when he finds prey, feeds with rodents in particular
Ropes are not specialized in a particular type of food. Consume species from a broad spectrum of the food chain, from amphibians to reptiles
Erete de stuf
Western Marsh-harrier
Erete de stuf
Whiskered tern
This species breeds in colonies on inland marshes, sometimes amongst black-headed gulls, which provide some protection. The scientific name arises from the fact that this, the largest marsh tern, show similarities in appearance to both the white Sterna terns and to black tern.
Flamingo in the Danube Delta The Danube Delta Reserve Biosphere, most of which is in Romania, is Europe's ... the Danube Delta, such as pelicans, swans, wild geese, and flamingos This density of birds is unmatched anywhere else in the world, therefore the Danube Delta is a birdwatchers’ paradise.
Black-tailed godwit The black-tailed godwit (Limosa limosa) is a large, long-legged, long-billed shorebird first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. It is a member of the Limosa genus, the godwits. There are three subspecies, all with orange head, neck and chest in breeding plumage and dull grey-brown winter coloration, and distinctive black and white wingbar at all times.
Limosa limosa
Limosa limosa
Limosa limosa
Limosa limosa
The ducks of the Danube Delta There is no other place in Romania where the multitude of species of ducks gather together. Mallard, garganey, pintail, pochard, tufted duck and many others are in continuous flight over the lakes of the Danube Delta.
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Heron Heron is the name given to several bird species with long beak, long throats and legs, and usually with a tuft of feathers on the head. The gray stork, Purple hawk, Aigrette, Little hawk, The nightmare
HERON GREY
Heron grey The grey heron is a long-legged predatory wading bird of the heron family, native throughout temperate Europe and Asia
Coots Coots are small water birds that are members of the Rallidae (rail) family. They constitute the genus Fulica, the name being the Latin for "coot". Coots have predominantly black plumage, and—unlike many rails—they are usually easy to see, often swimming in open water. They are close relatives of the moorhen.
Treasure of biodiversity in Danube Region Birds in the Danube Delta makind silhouettes
Ducks from the Danube Delta We like these rates! And we want to protect them!
The swampy and floodable areas attract attention with chicken rates, red-headed rate, high rate, low rate
Wild Rates populated River Olanesti from Rm. Valcea
The red star is a summer bird, spreading around the reedbeds, more often in the Danube Delta.
Purple havk The color of the feather is gray-blue, with the head, neck, and flanks of the red body.
It feeds on frogs, amphibians, fish, often can be seen camouflaged stand beside some reeds
Flying slowly, holding tight, S. shaped neck during flight It feeds on fish, tritons, frogs and various aquatic animals or wet vegetation.
Purple havk
Purple havk
Black-winged stilt
Stilt
Stilt
Stilt
With its long legs, it can wade into deeper water, where it may be seen snatching insects that hover over the water’s surface
The black-winged stilt (Himantopus himantopus) is a species from the wader family, which is a family of birds which live on the shore. Its name was inspired by its long, red legs. Its black and white plumage completes the image of an elegant bird. It is a migratory species, which comes to Romania in April and it leaves, to reach its wintering areas in, October.
T h e f l u v i a l d e l t a s p e c i f i c d e l i g h t s a r e s h a l l o w, ash, poplar forests, which grow on fluvial beams.
Birts in the Danube Delta
The red lizard
Stilt
Bustard
Prigorie
Chicken pussy
Hoopoe
I like seagulls Many species of gulls have learned to coexist successfully with humans and have thrived in human habitats. In my town, Rm. Valcea, there are many seagulls on the OlăneČ™ti River.
White-tailed eagle
White-tailed eagle
White-tailed eagle
In Romania it is endangered, being spread only in the Danube region and the Danube Delta. It is of great size brown body, white tail, strong yellow beak, long, straight, bent to the top and yellow legs, like fingers; black nails, very curved. It feeds on fish, frogs, snakes, ducks, rabbits, lewdings, hooves. Nest in trees near the water.
An adult eagle
A young eagle
It is a monogamous species that tends to keep the couple alive.
The Swan from Danube Delta
The swan is a very common bird spread all over the world and in Danube Delta is high in number. Its color is an impeccably white, the bill is red and it has some black spots around the eyes. They are big birds and weight even 12 kg. Due to their body and because are heavy, flying is not so easy and need more space to fly. Once in the air, the swans are flying in V-shaped flocks. The swan is also a good swimmer and it benefits from this to catch fish through its fast movements. It feeds also with different plants. They are solitary birds which prefer not to share the territory with other species and they build the nests in higher areas from the reed. Here the female in May lay downs and hatch 4-6 eggs. The swans are birds which are used with the cold weather and sometimes during winter they stay here.
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Lebede ĂŽn Delta Dunării
Swans in the Danube Delta
What is the flora? In the lower and humid areas there are oak species along with ash species, with varied species of shrubs or climbing plants such as wild berries.
The delta vegetation is dominated by reed (phragmites australis), rush (typha angustifolia))
Flora in the Danube Delta!
A distinct category is formed by plants without roots, floating plants such as Salvinia natans, three species of Lemna, Wolffia arrhiza, Utricularia vulgaris,.
The Flora Danube Delta
Animals in the Danube Delta Home to endangered fish & animal species This delta is among the last remaining places on Earth that are still home to endangered species of animals, birds and fish (otter, redbreasted goose, various species of pelicans and pygmy cormorants)..
ANIMALE DIN DELTA DUNÄ‚RII
Nutria
Mink
Otter
Otter
Muskrat
Wild horses
Danube Delta Birds Danube Delta, it’s the world’s most amazing bird paradises. In the Danube Delta territory, 274 bird species were identified of which 176 were brooding (sedentary and migratory) and 98 non-brooding ones (winter, passage, erratic, and accidental birds).
D E LTA D A N U B E
Treasure of Biodiversity The Danube is a treasure for Romania Delta Delta, Nest of millions of bird species from different corners of the Earth
The Danube Delta is a fairytale land.
How could you not even visit Delta at least once in your life?
The beauty of every detail of what is classified as a biosphere reserve nationwide fills you with quietness and goodwill.
Treasure of Biodiversity
THE DANUBE Romania is particularly important as a centre of population density for a variety of animals.
ROMANIA
TREASURE OF BIODIVERSITY Biodiversity is the foundation of ecosystem services to which human well-being is intimately linked.
Diversity includes RICHNESS
The Danube is of huge significance to Romania, since the country is almost entirely within the Danube Basin. The Romanian section covers almost a third of the surface area of the Basin, and over a third of the river’s length flows through the country.
Romanian society has witnessed an unprecedented tragedy in its recent history. More than 50 lives were lost as a result of some deficiency of integrity in the way the Romanian administration serves citizens.
The EU Strategy for the Danube Region includes the Danube River basin.
The Green Paper on Multilateral Diplomacy Accession to the Schengen Area European perspective of the Republic of Moldova Projects for the Black Sea Region Romania’s candidacy for OECD membership Energy Security Promoting Romanian Candidacies in International Institutions
European Affairs
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Romania’s participation in the Missile Defense System
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The Romanian section represents 29% of the surface area of the whole Basin, with 37.7% of the river flowing through its territory.
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