Register of protected areas in Bulgaria

Turchenitsa   (Unique identification code in the register: 399)

Category: Protected Site

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

Area: 3.5 hectares

Location:
District: Sofia (stolitsa), Municipality: Stolichna, Locality: Lokorsko

Falls in the territory of the following Regional Inspectorates of Environment and Water (RIEW):
Sofiia - bul."Tsar Boris III" №136

Falls in the territory of the following Regional Forestry Directorates (RFD):
RFD Sofia: SFE Sofia

Ordinance for announcement:
Ordinance No.РД-1120 from 02.07.1968 1120-1968

Ordinance for change:

Re-categorization with Ordinance No.РД-1104 from 03.09.2003 1104-2003

Aims of the declaration:
1. Conservation of the pine tree crop of black pine tree, Pseudotsuga menziesii ssp menziesii, and Picea pungens).
2. The crop is a combination of white and black pine tree, which were planted in the Southern slopes of Stara Planina.

Current prohibitions and regimes:
1. It is prohibited to fell, prune or damage trees, as well as to pick or uproot any plants.
2. It is prohibited to graze livestock at any time;
3. It is prohibited to chase and hunt wild animals and their young, to destroy their nests and dens.
4. It is prohibited to disclosure quarries for any inert and other materials, injuring and modifying the natural appearance of the site, including the water flows;
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 carry out intensive and clear felling;
7. It is allowed to carry out sanitary lumbering and fell old trees with deteriorated decorative qualities.

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Last update of the web application: 01.08.2011
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