İğneada Floodplain Forests National Park marten ("Martes martes"), European badger ("Meles meles"), grey wolf ("Canis lupus"), deer ("Cervidae"), fox ("Vulpes vulpes"), European otter ("Lutra lutra"), yellow-necked mouse ("Apodemus flavicollis"), weasel ("Mustela"), big-eared bat ("Micronycteris"), and variegated skunk ("Mephitis mephitis"). As reptiles Hermann's tortoise ("Testudo hermanni"), southern crested newt ("Triturus karelinii"), lizard ("Lacertilia"), asp ("Vipera aspis"), earringed water snake ("Acrochordidae") are found in the area. İğneada Floodplain Forests National Park can be reached by public transportation from Istanbul via Silivri, Çorlu, Lüleburgaz, Pınarhisar, Demirköy and İğneada. It is convenient to go from Istanbul over the motorway via Saray, Vize and then Poyralı, Demirköy and İğneada by
River Meles sources describe Meles as a very short stream rising at a number of springs close together in the outskirts of the city to form immediately a circular-shaped lake and joining the sea within eyeview, with a steady and equal flow, alike in summer and winter and navigable almost until its source. The description applies remarkably well to the stream which reaches the sea at a short distance east of the "19th century Kemer – Caravan Bridge Meles" stream, and which is not even a stream in the strict sense of the word, but consist of numerous sources which form at