Register of protected areas in Bulgaria

Kitkata   (Unique identification code in the register: 394)

Category: Protected Site

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

Area: 1.46 hectares

Location:
District: Montana, Municipality: Montana, Locality: Virove

Falls in the territory of the following Regional Inspectorates of Environment and Water (RIEW):
Montana - ul. "Julius Irasek"4 p.k.55

Ordinance for announcement:
Ordinance No.РД-206 from 23.03.1981 206-1981

Ordinance for change:

1. Re-categorization with Ordinance No.РД-1078 from 21.08.2003 1078-2003
2. Change in the area - decrease with Ordinance No.РД-823 from 04.12.2009 823-2009

Aims of the declaration:
1. Conservation of vulnerable and rare societies - venerable forest of summer oak.

Current prohibitions and regimes:
1. All activities are prohibited which hurt the stems, to break the branches, and any action that might lead to damaging the trees.
2. It is prohibited to enter, drive, or park motor vehicles.
3. It is prohibited picking or uprooting of plants
4. It is prohibited grazing of livestock ;
5. It is prohibited harassing the wild animals and taking their young or eggs, as well as damaging their nests and lairs;
6. It is prohibited uncontrolled visit of the caves;
7. It is prohibited injuring in nay way of the cave formations;
8. It is prohibited disclosure of quarries, mining and geological and any other activities that modify or injure the natural appearance of the site or its water system
9. It is prohibited to carry out felling, except sanitary;
10. Construction of any type is prohibited unless it is described in the management plan of the protected monument

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Last update of the web application: 01.08.2011
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