Persina Natural Park

With an area of ​​approximately 22,000 hectares, Persina Natural Park is unique for Bulgaria. Although set up relatively recently in 2000, it is the only natural park on the Danube, for the preservation and restoration of wetlands on the Danube.
Persina Island - Bulgaria's largest island named Natural Park. Its length is 15 km and the width is 6 km.
Its uniqueness and importance have been the reasons why it was declared a Ramsar site with large flooded forests and inland marshes decorated with specific vegetation. Also here we find impressive colonies of cormorants, terns, gulls, herons, ducks and geese. It is also worth mentioning that there are excellent conditions for the life of mute swans or black storks. Last but not least, over 1,000 species of animals live in the forests dominated by willow trees and poplars.
The park is part of the NATURA 2000 European Ecological Network Programme.