Ponora   (Unique identification code in the register: 39)

Category: Natural Monument

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

Area: 90.0 hectares

Location:
District: Vratsa, Municipality: Vratsa, Locality: Chiren

Falls in the territory of the following Regional Inspectorates of Environment and Water (RIEW):
Vratsa - ul."Ekzarh Josif" 81

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

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

Aims of the declaration:
1. water cave

Current prohibitions and regimes:
1. It is prohibited to collect stones and build quarries in the area of protected natural sites.
2. It is prohibited to enter the caves, destroy and break the cave formations (stalactites and stalagmites), as well as to litter them.
3. It is prohibited to collect or destroy the cave fauna.
4. It is prohibited to write or scribble on the walls, enter with torches or other smoking illuminants, as well as all other actions, which destroy the beauty of or damage the caves.
5. It is prohibited to use the caves for agricultural purposes (mushrooms houses, wine cellars, dairy farms, etc.), when they are not of scientific (geological or archeological, paleontological) and aesthetic significance.

Overlapping (partial or full):
PZ under the Habitat Directive: Bozhia most - Ponora

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Last update of the web application: 01.08.2011
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