Flora and fauna thumb|left|Green Forest and Dumbrăvița Lake In the past, there were extensive oak forests between the Tisza and Timiș. Over time, they were cleared to obtain the wood needed to build the fortress and houses, as well as to gain arable land. Today, except for the areas forested with Turkey oak and Hungarian oak (Green Forest, Bistra Forest, Timișeni–Șag Forest), the territory falls within the anthropogenic forest steppe that characterizes the entire Pannonian Basin. The landscape is diversified by meadow vegetation, along the main rivers, in which softwood trees predominate: willows, poplars, alders. Within the city limits is the Green Forest (), a forest massif with an area of about , systematically arranged in squares of . The forest is man-made; first organization plans were carried out in 1860 by the Hungarian Forest Service. About southeast of Timișoara is the Bazoș Dendrological Park, a forest reserve which since 1994 has the status of protected area. The first trees of the reserve were brought in 1909 from the Harvard University nursery. Today, the reserve includes 800 different species of trees and shrubs and is part of the International Association of Botanical Gardens.
Flora and fauna thumb|left|Green Forest and Dumbrăvița Lake In the past, there were extensive oak forests between the Tisza and Timiș. Over time they were cleared to obtain the wood needed to build the fortress and houses, as well as to gain arable land. Today, except for the areas forested with Turkey oak and Hungarian oak (Green Forest, Bistra Forest, Timișeni–Șag Forest), the territory falls within the anthropogenic forest steppe that characterizes the entire Pannonian Basin. The landscape is diversified by meadow vegetation, along the main rivers, in which softwood trees predominate: willows, poplars, alders. Within the city limits is the Green Forest (), a forest massif with an area of about , systematically arranged in squares of . The forest is man-made; first organization plans were carried out in 1860 by the Hungarian Forest Service. About southeast of Timișoara is the Bazoș Dendrological Park, a forest reserve which since 1994 has the status of protected area. The first trees of the reserve were brought in 1909 from the Harvard University nu,rsery. Today, the reserve includes 800 different species of trees and shrubs and is part of the International Association of Botanical Gardens.