Flora and fauna

The variety of the relief, climate and vegetation predetermines the variety of the animal world on the municipality's territory. In the plain part, along the valley of the Maritsa river, in the corn and rice fields, the water rat and various species of mouse-like rodents live. The most widespread birds are the heron, the stork, the ibis, the golden eye and the green-headed duck; the most widespread fish id the carp. A rare representative of the Bulgarian fauna - the black stork - lives here. Heron colonies still live in the oak woods

Typical inhabitants of the water basins are the cormorant and separate fishing eagles. In the coniferous belts of the Northern Rhodopes, the woodcock, the hazel-hen and insect-eating birds (the tree-creeper, the three-toe woodpecker, the crossbill), various songbirds (finches, robins, wagtails, fly-catcher, thrushes, woodpeckers) and many others live. Of the large mammals, the deer, the roe, the wild boar and the bear live there, of the predators with valuable fur - various martens, and of the small mammals - various species of voles.

Недалеч от Асеновград, в района на селата Езерово, Ахматово, Богданци и Селци, който е обявен за природна забележителност, са открити челюсти, бивници, отделни зъби, ребра и др. от мастодонт, носорог, див кон, а също така и цял запазен скелет на динотериум, който се съхранява в Софийския университет, а копие от него е гордостта на Палеонтоложкия музей на Асеновград.