Meotyda National Nature Park

Meotyda National Nature Park (Ukrainian: Меотида національний природний парк) covers a stretch of coastline, and interior estuaries and coastal lands, on the northern edge of the Sea of Azov in Ukraine.

Previously, the protected regions of the park supported important populations of migratory waterfowl and over 100 species of nesting birds.

The current status of wildlife (as of 2018) depends on the varying levels of military activity in the park.

Administratively, the park encompasses several subsidiary nature reserves and state lands, which retain their legal status.

[2] Meotyda is located in the Pontic–Caspian steppe ecoregion, a region that covers an expanse of grasslands stretching from the northern shores of the Black Sea to western Kazakhstan.

Yelanchansky bakai, in Meotyda NNP