An exotic place
With over 1200 species of trees and plants, and with the richest ornithological (over 300 species of birds, including unique colonies of pelicans) and ichthyological (about 100 species of fish, including the herring of the Danube and the sturgeons, that give the precious caviar) fauna in Europe, the Danube Delta is the largest reservation of the wetlands on the continent, covering an area of 2681 km2.
In 1990, UNESCO introduced the Danube Delta, the newest landform in Romania that is preserved from "the progress of industrialization," amongst the biosphere reservations.