Register of protected areas in Bulgaria

Rusenski Lom   (Unique identification code in the register: 3)

Category: Natural Park

Map:
Map of the object
Digital boundaries - WGS 84, UTM 35N (shp)	Digital boundaries are in the process of updating

Area: 3408.0 hectares

Location:
1. District: Ruse, Municipality: Ivanovo, Locality: Cherven, Ivanovo, Koshov, Nisovo, Shtraklevo, Svalenik, Tabachka
2. District: Ruse, Municipality: Vetovo, Locality: Pisanets

Falls in the territory of the following Regional Inspectorates of Environment and Water (RIEW):
Ruse - bul."Pridunavski" 20 p.k.26

Falls in the territory of the following Regional Forestry Directorates (RFD):
RFD Ruse: SHE Dunav

Ordinance for announcement:
Ordinance No.РД-567 from 26.02.1970 567-1970

Ordinance for change:

1. Change in the area - decrease with Ordinance No.РД-586 from 08.06.1983 586-1983
2. Change in the area - increase with Ordinance No.580 from 17.06.1986 580-1986
3. Re-categorization with Ordinance No.РД-794 from 19.08.2002 794-2002
4. Accepting the management plan with Decision No.539 from 06.06.2005 539-2005

Management plan for protected area (link):

Aims of the declaration:
1. Protection of biological and landscape diversity and cultural and historical heritage

Current prohibitions and regimes:
1. It is prohibited to hunt, with the exception of selection hunting in the period September - January in the sectors for landscape taxation - 2001 of the natural park in Rousse: 36,37,68,69,70, and the hunting of predators - foxes, jackals, and vagrant dogs.
2. It is prohibited to carry out mining and other activities, which alter the natural landscape of the region and its water regime.
3. It is prohibited to graze goats.
4. It is prohibited to pick flowers, herbs, and wild fruit for commercial and manufacturing purposes;
5. It is prohibited to damage the rock churches and other historical sites;
6. It is prohibited to build apiaries and to start fires, outside the regioned determined by the management plan.
7. It is prohibited to use chemicals for vegetation protection.

Overlapping (partial or full):
1. PZ under the Bird Directive: Lomovete
2. PZ under the Habitat Directive: Lomovete

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Last update of the web application: 01.08.2011
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