Wednesday, October 27, 2004

Romania in Europ - Environment

Romania is the third - largest Eastern European country.

Romania lies on the black sea, and shares borders with Bulgaria, Serbia, Montenegro, Hungary, Ukraine and Moldova.

Much of the country is covered in the Carpathian Mountains (forest covered), hills of orchards and vinyards, and fertile plain where cereals, vegetables, and herbs are grown.

The Carpathian mountains are now home to 60% of Europe's bears. Some 40% of Europe's wolves and 35% of its lynx also live there, along with stag, wild boar, badger, deer, fox, and the green woodpecker, jay and grey owl. Romania's main drawcard for twitchers is the Danube Delta, home to 60% of the world's small pygmy cormorant population, the white grey egret, bee-keeper and white-tailed eagle.

The average annual temperature is 11°C in the south and on the coast, but only 2°C in the mountains. Romanian winters can be extremely cold and foggy, with lots of snow from December to April. In summer there's usually hot, sunny weather on the Black Sea coast. The majority of Romania's rain falls in the spring, with the mountains getting the most, the Danube Delta the least

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