Lake Saka Nature Reserve
The Lake Saka Nature Reserve is a nature reserve at Sivriler village of Demirköy district in Kırklareli Province of Turkey close to İğneada on the Black Sea coast. It gets its name from the Lake Saka, which is in the boundaries of the İğneada Floodplain Forests National Park. It is from Demirköy, and from İğneada.
It covers an area of. The sits is on a floodplain of a river that flows into the Black Sea, and seasonally floods thus rendering it a unique and one of the very few remaining floodplain forests in all of Europe.Flora
In addition to the main flora of alder, elm and ash, trees such as oak, hornbeam, beech, black poplar, white poplar, willow, linden and walnut are found in the nature reserve.Fauna
The fauna of the protected area consists of the mammals: deer, roe deer, fox, gray wolf, hare, wild boar, wildcat and the birds swan, mallard, greylag goose, woodcock and common wood pigeon. The nature reserve is habitat for the reptiles such as viper, slow-worm and water snake. The lake is home to the fish species of carp, red seabream, bass as well as to crustaceans like crayfish.
