Baragan was always a steppe territory. Natural vegetation in the past was formed by specific types of plants “colilie”, “negara”, characterized by continental climate, it was distroied by agricultura land expansion. Today Baragan is transformed into a cropped steppe. Thereare thegreatest quantitiesof wheat, corn and sunflower plantations in the country.
Also, Baragan climate is favorable for vineyards and coniferous plantations such as plane, larch(a type of conifer trees with fallen leaves) that grow in Amara Resort Parc.
The Biotope specific to steppe climate, divers and with an important value and interest in hunting, represents a source in developins fishins and hunting tourism.
The vegetation of Ialomița County has a 65% surface specific to steppe climate, including several types of primary steppe (graminee), forest steppe in the south-west of the country,characterised by great grayish and downy oakforests, beech, acacia, steppe with forest trees( ash, hair and woody apple, elm, common maple, blackthorn, privet, hawthorn, horn, bloody), the meadow: reed, bulrush, sedge, willow, poplar, oak in Ialomița Meadow and the Danube Meadow, lake and other types.
The natural resources in Ialomița county are represented by:
• Oil and natural gas in Urziceni-Colilia- Grindu perimeter;
• Loess with a very fine texture – Urziceni, Țăndărei, Slobozia, Manasia;
• Sand taken from the rivers bed and Hagieni area;
• Therapeutic mud in Amara and Fundata;
• Sulfur springs in Ciulnita, Perieți, Amara, Ciorii Yalley;
• Thermal springs-Giurgeni, Amara;
Existing fauna includes steppe, forest and meadow animals and birds, the steppe ferret, hare, weasel, deer, wild boar, fox, wood mouse, badger, muskrat, raccoon dog, quail, partridge, plovers, roller, lark, crow, sparrow, starling, turtle dove, collared dove, pheasant wood-cock, coot, wild duck, Danube falcon, etc.
Ihtiofauna includes: perch, bream, carp, roach, pike, catfish, sturgeon, etc.