Uzungöl is a region which has special ecological conditions, it also has a rich vegetation cover which is used in cosmetics and medicine and also bearing an international value. For these reasons, Uzungöl was declared as a natural park in the year of 1989 and has been declared as a special environmental area in the year of 2004. Uzungöl which is located in the south east of the Trabzon and foothills of the Soğanlı Mountains is a natural lake formed with the landslide occurred about 500 years ago when this landslide disturbed the Haldizen River.
The altitude of the lake is about 1100 meters and the width of the lake which is in the form of the ellipse is about 7 kilometers. Forests are generally having the eastern spruce and eastern beech trees within the richness in plant diversity. As the altitude increases, the plant diversity of the vegetation covers changes. You can see another color of the same flower in a higher altitude. For example, you can see a red populous trebula in the 500 meters but when you reach to the 750 meters it is possible to see the same flower with yellow color. Uzungöl region has very rich plant diversity. There are about 157 different plant species in the Uzungöl.
We can say the followings about the diversity of life in the Uzungöl; there are about twenty wild animals in the region. These animals include; mountain cock, bear, mountain goat, fox, lynx, wolf, coyote, twilight weasel, deer, barn owl, and wild rabbits. The region is also quite rich in terms of bird diversity. The region is the home of 150 different species of bird. Almost fifty of these one hundred and fifty birds are the birds who exist in the region during the seasonal migratory. Because of these mentioned reasons, the region is a very convenient area for bird watching. You can also have the opportunity to observe up to 15 different kinds of bird species in the lake which freezes partially during the winter season. If we need to give a few examples for the flora diversity in Uzungöl, we can tell these flowers species; Sambucus nigra, Populous trebula, Coronilla orientalis, Atropa belladonna, Geranium psilostemon, Verbascum vulcanicum, Taraxacum officinialis, Veronica pectinata, Abies normaniana, Piceae pungens, Piceae orientalis, Echium plantagineum, Calystegia silvatica, Campanula bononiensis, Trifolium resupinatum, Trifolium medium, Crepis foetida, Ranunculus rapiens, Helichrysum arenarium, Dorycinium pentaphyllum, Rosa canina, Boreva orientalis, Atropa belladonna, Verbascum vulcanicum, Veronica pectinata, Piceae pungens, Echium plantagineum, Campanula bononiensis, Trifolium medium, Ranunculus rapiens, Dorycinium pentaphyllum, Anchorium elichrysifolium.
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