High meadows within the Retezat National Park create a haven for rare alpine flora. Long, steep slopes of the Retezat Mountains are covered with different types of forest, especially beech, spruce and fir. At the sub-alpine level or Retezat, slopes shaped by ice are often protected by dwarf pine.
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Retezat is famous for its floral diversity, sheltering around 1190 superior plants species of the 3450 species known in Romania. The existence of more than ...
Retezat is inhabited by chamois, wolves, lynx, bears, otters and marmots (re-introduced in the seventies), several species of birds of prey, reptiles like ...
Some of the most popular species include brown bear, chamois, Eurasian otter, European lynx, European wildcat, fox, red deer, roe deer, wild boar, and wolves.
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These forests are composed predominantly of European beech, Norway spruce (Picea abies) and silver fir (Abies alba) with a sporadic presence of European birch, ...
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Over one third of Romania's flora can be found in the Retezat Mountains. High meadows create a haven for rare alpine flora. Long, steep slopes are covered with ...