Register of protected areas in Bulgaria

Peshterata Ledenitsata   (Unique identification code in the register: 35)

Category: Natural Monument

Map:
Map of the object
Digital boundaries - WGS 84, UTM 35N (shp)	Digital boundaries are with the current status

Area: 10.93 hectares

Location:
District: Smolyan, Municipality: Smolyan, Locality: Gela

Falls in the territory of the following Regional Inspectorates of Environment and Water (RIEW):
Smolian - ul."Dicho Petrov" №16

Falls in the territory of the following Regional Forestry Directorates (RFD):
RFD Smolyan: SFE Shiroka Laka

Ordinance for announcement:
Ordinance No.2810 from 10.10.1962 2810-1962

Ordinance for change:

Ordinance No.РД-1120 from 02.07.1968 1120-1968

Aims of the declaration:
1. Protection of venerable forest.

Current prohibitions and regimes:
1. It is prohibited to fell, trim, or damage trees, as well as to pick or uproot any plants.
2. It is prohibited to graze any sort of livestock at any time.
3. It is prohibited to chase wild animals and their young or to destroy their nests or dens.
4. It is prohibited to build quarries for rocks, sand, or soil, which alter the natural image of the region and the water patterns.
5. It is prohibited to break, scribble on or damage in any way the rock formations in the caves, the stalactites and other formations in the caves.
6. It is prohibited to lumber intensively. It is allowed to carry out sanitary lumbering and the felling of old trees, as well as trees with deteriorated decorative qualities.

Overlapping (partial or full):
PZ under the Habitat Directive: Rodopi - Zapadni

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Last update of the web application: 01.08.2011
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