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Srebarna Biosphere Reserve is situated near the town of Silistra and is separated from the Danube by a narrow belt of woodland and farmland.
The Srebarna Biosphere Reserve has the highest international nature protection status. It is included in the UNESCO List for Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (1983), recognized as a Ramsar Site under the Ramsar Convention for Protection of Wetlands (1975), a part of the World-Wide Network for Biosphere Reserves of UNESCO (1977), and an Important Bird Area (IBA) according to the Birdlife International Programme. |
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Srebarna is a Nature Reserve since 1948, due to the great biological diversity of the Reserve inhabitants. Several globally threatened animals reside the lake - the Dalmatian pelican, the pygmy cormorant, and the ferruginous duck, the red-breasted goose and the white-fronted goose, the otter and the medicine leech.
The total number of bird species found in and around the Srebarna Lake is 179, of them 99 are nesting ones. A wide variety of raptors, waterfowl and waders occur on passage.
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The reserve has a Ecological research and visitor station and from there a trail leads to a viewpoint overlooking the pelican colony. |
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