Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve
Danube Biosphere Reserve occupies almost 50,000 hectares. It is considered to be the biggest swampland reserve in Europe! The richness of the flora and fauna of the Danube delta makes it a unique place in Europe.
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Danube Biosphere Reserve occupies almost 50,000 hectares. It is considered to be the biggest swampland reserve in Europe! The richness of the flora and fauna of the Danube delta makes it a unique place in Europe.
The system of canyons including Arbuzynka, Aktovo and Petropavlivsk are not far from the Trykraty Forest. The most famous is Aktovo Canyon on the Mertvovod River near the village of Aktove in Voznesensk County.
The Trykraty Forest is a planted forest outside Trykraty in Voznesensk County in Mykolayiv Oblast, where the Arbuzynka River flows into Mertvovod. It was established in the 1870s by Count Skarzhynsky.
The Granitno-Stepove Pobuzhzhia Regional Landscape Park is located on the edge of the Podillia and Dnipro range and covers the Southern Buh valley from Myhiya to Oleksandrivka and the gorges of its tributaries—the Velyka Korabelna, Bakshaly and Mertvovod.
This little Black Sea pearl was an important stopping point on the famous trade route called “From the Vikings to the Greeks,” which followed the Dnipro-Buh estuary.
The Pryingulskiy Regional Landscape Park was established in 2002 to conserve the natural state of parts of the Ingul River valley with both typical and unique natural habitats, fragments of virgin steppe, granite outcroppings, bodies of water, and forest plantations. The Park covers more than 3,000 hectares.
The Tylihulskiy Regional Landscape Park includes the coastline and surrounding waters in the Tylihul estuary, which is in Berezan County in Mykolayiv Oblast.
The Kinburnska Kosa is a protected peninsula located in Ochakiv and Berezan Counties in Mykolayiv Oblast between the Dnipro-Buh estuary and the Black Sea. The Park covers 35,223.15 hectares.
The Natural Reserve "Yelanetsky steppe" is a protected area in Novoodeskiy and Yelanetskiy Counties of Mykolayiv Oblast. The reserve was established on July 17, 1996 and covers 1,675.7 hectares.
The park includes the Southern Buh River valley and the gorges of its tributaries – Velyka Korabelna, Bakshaly and Mertvovod.
Tendrivska spit — is the only place in Ukraine, that is a home to a population of wild horses.
The reserve consists of mainland areas, over 20 islands, two bays — Tendrivska and Yagorlytska.
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