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Bulgaria · BG

Beli Lom Nature Reserve

Beli Lom Nature Reserve protects a rare and quietly beautiful piece of lowland Bulgaria: the tangled valley of the Beli Lom river, where coppice oak-and-lime forest of the kind that once covered Europe's plains still survives. Declared a reserve in 1980 to safeguard the characteristic woodland of the Ludogorie region, it lies in the flat-to-rolling country of the Danube Plain, spread across the lands of the village of Krivnya (Ruse Province) and the town of Tsar Kaloyan (Razgrad Province), about 20 km from the city of Ruse. What makes it special is how intact and undisturbed it feels. Around 80% of the reserve is forest, the river below runs in tight meanders and short canyon-like bends, and the open floodplain turns marshy and reed-fringed in stretches. It is one of the surviving remnants of thermophilous (sun-loving) oak woodland in Europe, which is why botanists and birdwatchers rate it so highly. Roughly 70 bird species nest here, and the reserve forms part of the Lomovete Natura 2000 site and Bulgaria's list of ornithologically important areas, alongside the neighbouring Rusenski Lom Nature Park.