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NATIONAL AND NATURE PARKS OF ROMANIA

Since the beginning of nature conservation initiatives, Romanian foresters have been actively and directly involved in this field. Constantly supported by specialists from other fields, foresters have acted consistently to protect, complete and ensure the sustainability of the “Romanian forest”(Giurgiu, 1993).

The first protected area in Romania was established in 1994 - Codrul Secular Slatioara Natural Reserve. The first national park, Retezat National Park, was established in 1935.

There are 29 national parks designated at national level, 22 of them being managed by the National Forest administration:

-12 are national parks (with an area of 308 000 ha)

-10 are nature parks (with an area of 544 000 ha).

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• National and nature parks include some of the most spectacular landscapes in Romania. The altitudinal, climatic and soil variety determines a wide range and habitats from mountain forests to alluvial forests, from alpine and subalpine meadows to steppe and forest-steppe.

NATIONAL PARK

• Protected area established with the following purposes: the protection and conservation of landscape ensembles in which the interaction of human activities with nature over time has created a distinct area, with significant landscape and / or cultural value, often with great biological diversity.

NATURAL PARK

Retezat National Park–Biosphere Reserve

Location:

Southern Carpathians (Western side)

Tourist Trails: 22 • Thematic Trails: 5

Natural attractions :

54 glacier lakes: (Bucura - the largest in Romania, Zănoaga - the deepest, Taul Țapului, and others)

Glaciers,

The highest peaks: (Peleaga – 2509 m)

Representative flora and fauna species:

• flora: sweet pea, lady’s slipper, edelweiss, spring gentian and others;

• fauna: brown bear, wolf, Eurasian lynx, red deer, golden eagle and others.

Golden Eagle

Lady’s Slipper

Taul Tapului Lake

Zanoaga Lake

Cheile

Bicazului-Hasmas National Park

Location: in Hăşmaş Mountains

(central part of the Eastern Carpathians)

Natural attractions of tourist interest: The Bicaz Gorge, the Red Lake

with the Suhardul Mic Massif,

the Hășmașul Mare Massif,

the Lonely Stone.

Tourist Trails: 18 • Thematic Trails: 4

The Lonely Stone

Astragalus pseudopurpureus

(endemic species)

View from the lower level

Apuseni Natural Park

Location: Apuseni Mountains (Central North-Western part)

Tourist Trails: 56 • Thematic Trails: 2

Representative flora and fauna species:

• flora: Hungarian lilac, Lady’s slipper, Mountain arnica, Common sundew, The harebell.

• fauna: brown bear, chamois, capercaillie, grey wolf, Eurasian lynx, Boreal owl, 37 cave invertebrate endemic species.

Eurasian Lynx

The Harebell

Natural attractions: Scarişoara Glacier Cave, (the world’s largest underground ice block, Bears Cave, others

Scarisoara Glacier cave

Bears cave

Boreal Owl

Bucegi

Nature Park

Location: Meridional Carpathians

(Eastern part)

Representative flora and fauna species:

• flora: European yew, great yellow gentian, Swiss pine, edelweiss, red vanilla orchid;

• fauna: brown bear, chamois, red deer

Natural attractions: The Sphinx, Babele (The Old Ladies), Bucegi-Prahova Valley Abrupt, Urlătoarea Waterfall, Franz Joseph Cliffs.

The Sphinx

The Old Ladies (Babele)

Peles Castle

Red Deer

The mighty Danube River flows 2860 km from its springs in Germany's Black Forest to the Black Sea. Just before reaching the sea it forms the second largest and best preserved of Europe's deltas: 3446 square km of rivers, canals, marshes, tree-fringed lakes and reed islands. The Danube Delta is a wildlife enthusiast's (especially a bird watcher's) paradise.

Species: 

European sturgeon, Danube sturgeon, starry sturgeon  and sterlet – bearers of caviar; carps, pikes, zanders, makerels, grey mullets, breams, tenches, sheat fishes.

Danube

Delta

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The Iron Gates

Location: South-West of the country, at the border with Serbia.

Tourist Trails: 15 • Thematic Trails: 4

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Representative flora and fauna species:

• flora: the yellow tulip, Danube bells, rock iris, Banat

peony, Greater Easter flower;

• fauna: Eurasian lynx, wildcat, white-tailed eagle, black stork, Hermanni tortoise.

King Decebal`s

rock sculpture

The riverbed rocks and the associated rapids made the narrow valley an infamous passage for shipping, even for the most experienced boatmen.

During the Ottoman rule, the ships were guided through by the local navigators, familiar with the routes, called kalauz (from Turkish kalavuz, meaning guide, travel leader)

Vânători Neamț

Nature Park

Location: Outer Eastern Carpathians - Moldavian Sub Carpathians

Visitor centre: Vânători Neamț.

Natural attractions:

“Bison Reservation” “The Copper forest” and

“The silver forest”, “The Vanatori Neamt lake”

Representative flora and fauna species:

• flora: mountain bulls, heath spotted orchid, lesser butterfly-orchid, elder-flowered orchid, hepatica.

• fauna: European bison, brown bear, wolf, lynx, black stork.

European bisons

Black storck

The Vanatori Neamt lake

Autumn crocus

Representative flora and fauna species:

• flora: over 1.100 species of plants. Rare species: alpine willow, edelweiss, swiss pine.

• fauna: chamois, marmot, eurasian lynx, brown bear, red deer, wolf.

avifauna: capercaillie, black grouse, golden eagle,eurasian eagle-owl.

Other tourist attractions:

Wooden churches, traditional architecture (monumental gates), customs and traditional dresses.

Location: Eastern Carpathians

(Northern part)

Rodnei Mountains National Park

The capercaillie

Traditional clothes

The Călimani Mountains are the youngest volcanic mountains in Romania, located all over a huge volcanic cone.

The horseshoe volcanic caldera has a diameter of about 10 km, being one of the largest in Europe.​

Location: In the middle group of the Eastern Carpathians

Calimani National Park

Representative flora and fauna species:

• flora: swiss stone pine, rhododendron, spotted gentian,

European yew;

• fauna: brown bear, grey wolf, lynx, capercaille

“The old man” rock

Protected areas in THE Suceava County!

1. There are 29 protected areas of national importance:

• Botanical
• Forest
• Geological
• Paleontological reserves

and Calimani National Park

2.There is also an international importance protected area: Poiana Stampei Big Peatery, (member of RAMSAR – wetlands with international recognision)

Poiana Stampei

Big peatery

Botanical Reserves

In the botanic reserves, the primary focus is

on protecting rare or regionally characteristic

species and communities of plants

PONOARE SECULAR HAYFIELDS�

RĂCHITIŞUL MARE (BIG WICKER)

CALAFINDEȘTI SECULAR HAYFIELDS

GĂINA LUCINA PEATERY

FOREST RESERVES

• Forest reserves are portions of state lands where commercial harvesting of wood products is excluded in order to capture elements of biodiversity that can be missing from sustainably harvested sites.

SLATIOARA SECULAR FOREST

• The trees that make this reservation are among the oldest in Romania and even in Europe, some of them – 350 years old.
• Forest exploitation is severely prohibited  

GIUMALĂU SECULAR FOREST

ȘARU DORNEI PEATERY

ZAMOSTEA-LUNCA FOREST

DRAGOMIRNA BEECH FOREST

ROȘOȘA FOREST

LOBEN SECULAR FOREST

VOIVODEASA FOREST

GEOLOGICAL RESERVES �(PROTECTED AREAS)

• Places with valuable rock formations

12 APOSTLES – CALIMANI MOUNTAINS

DEVIL‘S MILL

THE ”ȚIBĂULUI” STONE

”PIATRA BUHEI” (THE OWL STONE)

”LUCAVEI” GORGE

PIATRA PINULUI ȘI PIATRA ȘOIMULUI�(THE PINE ROCK AND THE HAWK ROCK)

PIATRA PINULUI ȘI PIATRA ȘOIMULUI�(THE PINE ROCK AND THE HAWK ROCK)

MIXT (COMPLEX) RESERVES

HER LADYSHIP`S ROCKS

ZUGRENI GORGE

They have rare fossiles

(petrified remains

of ancient

living creatures)

PALEONTOLOGICAL RESERVES

TRIASIC LIMESTONES ”HORSE CREEK”

THE ROCK LAYERS WITH APTICHUS (POJORÂTA)

“THE RATS’ CAVE”

LOCAL IMPORTANCE PROTECTED AREAS

- SELECTION -

FĂLTICENI PONDS – BIRDS’ SANCTUARY

RARAU-GIUMALAU MOUNTAINS

SUCEAVA RIVER

MOLDOVA RIVER

PIETROSUL BROȘTENILOR

WAITING FOR YOU IN ROMANIA,

TO SEE SOME OF THESE PLACES

… AND MANY OTHER

NATURAL AND CULTURAL TREASURES !