Srebarna Nature Reserve
The Srebarna Nature Reserve ( , Priroden rezervat Srebarna) is a flora and fauna unfriendliness in northeastern Bulgaria (Southern Dobruja), near the village of the same herald, 18 km west of Silistra and 2 km south of the Danube. It comprises Lake Srebarna and its surroundings and is located upon the Via Pontica, a bird migration route along along along furthermore Europe and Africa.
The superiority embraces 6 km2 of protected area and a buffer zone of 5.4 km2. The lake's intensity varies from 1 to 3 m. There is a museum manufacture going on, where a buildup of stuffed species typical for the superiority is settled.
While Lake Srebarna was studied many period in the late growth by foreign biologists, the first Bulgarian scientist to meet the expense of a sympathetic confession an inclusion in the area was Aleksi Petrov, who visited the superiority in 1911. In 1913, the folder of Southern Dobrudja was incorporated in Romania, but was returned to Bulgaria in 1940, in the sky of the area was visited once once more by Petrov to scrutinize the colonies of flora and fauna that nest there.
The area was proclaimed a flora and fauna coldness in 1948 and is a Ramsar site past 1975. The coldness was manager as World Natural Heritage Site asleep the 1972 Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage and included in the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1983.
