Arap Chal   (Unique identification code in the register: 58)

Category: Protected Site

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

Area: 220.8 hectares

Location:
District: Pazardzhik, Municipality: Velingrad, Locality: Sveta Petka

Falls in the territory of the following Regional Inspectorates of Environment and Water (RIEW):
Pazardzhik - ul. "Gurko" № 3 et.4 p.k.220

Falls in the territory of the following Regional Forestry Directorates (RFD):
RFD Pazardzhik: SHE Alabak

Ordinance for announcement:
Ordinance No.196 from 19.03.1981 196-1981

Aims of the declaration:
1. Protection of endangered species - grouse and capercaillie.

Current prohibitions and regimes:
1. It is prohibited to damage the forest vegetation.
2. It is prohibited to graze domestic animals.
3. It is prohibited to chase or disturb the wild animals, to take their young or their eggs, as well as to destroy their nests or dens.
4. It is prohibited to build quarries, carry out mining, geological, and other activities, which alter the natural landscape.
5. It is prohibited to use chemicals to fight with the forest pests.
6. It is allowed to feed the birds in the winter.
7. It is allowed to maintain the meadows by removing the softwood and the shrubs.
8. It is allowed to maintain the meadows by removing the tree and shrub vegetation that settles on them;
9. It is prohibited to create new meadows.
10. It is allowed to carry out sanitary lumbering.

Overlapping (partial or full):
PZ under the Habitat Directive: Yadenitsa

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Last update of the web application: 01.08.2011
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