Srebarna Biosphere Park

The first Bulgarian who was particularly interested in this zone was Alexi Petrov who visited the Park in 1911. In a few years he returned to explore the area and the birds. During this time, in 1942, the site was declared a kennel for waterfowl birds, and in 1948 it received the status of a bird Park. Bulgarians were not the only ones impressed by this beautiful place. It was also visited by the Austrians Felix Kanitz and Edward Hodek, who even wrote an article about the Park titled “The Home of the Migrants”. In the article he explains to his fellow countrymen how incredible this place is in the beautiful and little known Bulgaria. Another researcher who visited Srebarna was Otomar Reiser. He is the author of the book “Materials of the Bulgarian Ornithus”, the second volume of the book is dedicated to the Bulgarian fauna. Because of the rare and vanishing species of birds in 1983. Lake Srebarna is included in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. In 1965, the Park was included in the list of Europe’s most important wetlands, and ten years later, in 1975, it was declared a wetland under the Ramsar Convention, an international agreement on biodiversity conservation. In addition, the Park is also included in UNESCO’s World Biosphere Park Network, as well as in the list of important ornithological sites in Europe. The aim is to pPark the unique biodiversity, which has been known to the Bulgarian and European scientific community since the beginning of the twentieth century.