Letea Forest

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Title: Letea Forest Category: Top 10+ Forests Origin: Romania Listing added: Apr 25, 2009 Comments: 0 PageRank: 2/10

Letea Forest is one of the oldest natural reservations in Romania. Letea forest is located between the Sulina and Chilia branches of Danube in the Danube Delta and it covers an area of aproximatively 2,825 ha.
This forest was the initial foundation of the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve which has been declared a World Heritage Site and internationally recognized as a Biosphere Reserve under UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere Programme in 1992.
Letea Forest is formed mainly from White Poplar, Black Poplar, Elm tree, English Oak, Silver Lime, Narrow-leafed Ash, Common Alder, … Along with these ones above it is completed by a rich scale of sub-shrub species.[2]
It is also home for a rich fauna like Red-footed Falcon, White-tailed Eagle, Roller, Hoopoe, Vipera ursinii, Danube Delta horse, …- approximatively 1600 entomofauna species identified until today.

Origin:	Romania
Web page:	www.fotodelta.ro/de-vazut/padurea-letea
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