Floodplain forests, wetlands and sandy steppe on the lower Dnieper in Kherson region
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The park protects the lower Dnieper, the stretch from the Kakhovka dam (destroyed in 2023) to the Dnieper-Buh estuary where the river kept a relatively natural state. Floodplain forests, bogs, meadows, sandy steppe and steep river slopes sit together in the delta.
1Dnieper Delta (Delta r. Dnipro) Ramsar siteWetland of international importance inside and around the park, protected under the Ramsar Convention.2Floodplain forests and bogsTypical and rare communities survive in the delta and on neighbouring land.
Ukraine · KhersonEst. 2015Protected area category: IUCN II
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Sandy steppe and Dnieper slopes
Sandy steppes, steppe slopes and ravines (balky) line the lower river.