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Rupite - Strumeshnitsa   (Unique identification code in the register: BG0001023)

Category: PZ under the Habitat Directive

Map:

Map of the object


Area: 10458.74 hectares

Location:
1. District: Blagoevgrad, Municipality: Petrich, Locality: Belasitsa, Borovichene, Chuchuligovo, Dolna Krushitsa, Dolno Spanchevo, Drangovo, Gabrene, General Todorov, Kamena, Kapatovo, Karnalovo, Kavrakirovo, Kladentsi, Klyuch, Kolarovo, Kromidovo, Kulata, Marikostinovo, Marino pole, Mendovo, Mihnevo, Mitino, Novo Konomladi, Parvomay, Petrich, Pravo bardo, Ribnik, Rupite, Samuilovo, Skrat, Starchevo, Strumeshnitsa, Topolnitsa, Yavornitsa
2. District: Blagoevgrad, Municipality: Sandanski, Locality: Damianitsa, Harsovo, Hotovo, Lebnitsa, Levunovo, Novo Delchevo, Novo Hodzhovo, Sklave, Spatovo

Falls in the territory of the following Regional Inspectorates of Environment and Water (RIEW):
Blagoevgrad - ul."Svoboda" № 1

Ordinance for announcement:
Ordinance No.РД-349 from 31.03.2021 2-2-1023-349-2021

Record for protected zone (link):

Aims of the declaration:
1. Preservation and maintenance of the types of natural habitats specified in item 2.1, the habitats of the species specified in item 2.2, their populations and distribution within the boundaries of the zone, to achieve and maintain their favorable nature conservation status in the Continental biogeographical region;
2. Improving the structure and functions of natural habitats with codes 5210, 91E0*, 91M0, 92C0 and 92D0;
3. Improvement of the habitats of the species Elaphe situla, Elaphe quatuorlineata, Testudo graeca and Mauremys caspica;
4. If necessary, improving the condition or restoring the types of natural habitats specified in item 2.1, habitats of species specified in item 2.2 and their populations;

Objects of protection (species or habitats):
1. Article 6, paragraph 1, section 1 from Biological Diversity Act: 5210 Arborescent matorral with Juniperus spp. ; 6210 Semi-natural dry grasslands and scrubland facies on calcareous substrates (Festuco-Brometalia) (*important orchid habitats); 6220 * Pseudo-steppe with grasses and annuals of the Thero-Brachypodietea; 6420 Mediterranean tall humid grasslands of the Molinio-Holoschoenion; 8230 Siliceous rock with pioneer vegetation of the Sedo-Scleranthion or Sedo albi-Veronicion dillenii; 8310 Caves not open to the public; 91AA * Eastern white oak woods; 91E0 * Alluvial forests withAlnus glutinosa and Fraxinus excelsior (Alno-Pandion, Alnion incanae, Salicion albae); 91M0 Pannonian-Balkanic turkey oak-sessile oak forests; 92C0 Platanus orientalis orientalis woods; 92D0 Southern riparian galleries and thickets (Nerio-Tamaricetea and Securinegion tinctoriae);
2. Article 6, paragraph 1, section 2 from Biological Diversity Act: Mammals - Canis lupus, Vormela peregusna, Lutra lutra, Rhinolophus ferrumequinum, Rhinolophus hipposideros, Myotis myotis, Myotis bechsteinii, Myotis blythii, Barbastella barbastellus; Amphibians and reptiles - Triturus karelinii, Bombina variegata, Elaphe situla, Elaphe quatuorlineata, Emys orbicularis, Testudo hermanni, Testudo graeca, Mauremys caspica; Fish - Cobitis taenia, Aspius aspius, Rhodeus amarus, Barbus cyclolepis; Intervertebrates - Austropotamobius torrentium, Cerambyx cerdo, Morimus funereus, Lucanus cervus, Rosalia alpina, Carabus menetriesi pacholei, Euplagia Callimorpha quadripunctaria, Lycaena dispar, Eriogaster catax, Erannis ankeraria, Coenagrion ornatum, Ophiogomphus cecilia, Unio crassus.

Current prohibitions and regimes:
1. It is prohibited conducting races with motor vehicles outside the existing roads and the places regulated for this purpose;
2. It is prohibited movement of motorcycles, ATVs, UTVs and buggies off existing roads in non-urban areas. The prohibition does not apply to routes for the movement of the listed motor vehicles determined on the basis of a normative act, as well as in case of disasters, emergencies and for carrying out fire-fighting, emergency, control and rescue activities;
3. It is prohibited the prospecting for minerals (construction and stone materials), creating new and expanding concession areas for extraction of minerals (construction and stone materials); prohibition does not apply in cases where the date of publication of the order in the "Official Gazette" has started a procedure for granting permits for prospecting and / or exploration and / or the concession for extraction under Subsurface Resources Act (SRA) and Concessions Act, or a procedure for their coordination under Chapter Six of the Law on environmental protection and / or art. 31 of the Biological Diversity Act or an application for registration of a commercial discovery;
4. It is prohibited to change the way of permanent use, plowing, afforestation and conversion into permanent plantations of meadows, pastures and grassland, when using agricultural lands as such;
5. It is prohibited to plow and afforest meadows, barren lands and other unforested forest territories within the boundaries of non-forest natural habitats under item 2.1 except in cases of proven need for protection against erosion and flood rain, as well as in cases of implementation of eligible plans, programs, projects or investment proposals approved in accordance with environmental legislation;
6. It is prohibited to remove landscape features (borders, vital single trees and groups of trees, traditional strips occupied by shrub and tree vegetation among lands under cultivation, protective forest belts, stone fences and hedges), when using agricultural land as such, except in cases to removal of invasive alien species of trees and shrubs;
7. It is prohibited the use of fertilizers, soil improvers, biologically active substances, nutrient substrates and plant protection products that do not meet the requirements of the Plant Protection Act;
8. It is prohibited the use of mineral fertilizers in meadows, pastures, grasslands, abandoned agricultural lands and forest areas, as well as plant protection products of professional category of use in these areas except for calamity, epiphytosis or the use of selective methods to combat invasive alien species;
9. It is prohibited to use of organic sludge from industrial and other waters and household waste for introduction into agricultural land without permission from the specialized bodies of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Forestry and when the concentration of heavy metals, metalloids and persistent organic pollutants in sludge exceeds background concentrations according to Annex № 1 of Ordinance № 3 of 2008 on the norms for permissible content of harmful substances in soils (SG, issue 71 of 2008);
10. It is prohibited to use of irrigation water that contains harmful substances and waste above the permissible norms;
11. It is prohibited burning of stubble, syllables, roadside strips and areas with dry and moisture-loving vegetation;
12. It is prohibited to make a fire, improvements, electrification, conduct of business and sports activities in the caves and caves' entrances, as well as to break, damage, to collect or to remove of rock and cave formations, and also to divide the cave's entrance or its individual galleries in a way that prevents passing of species subject to protection under item 2.2.1;
13. It is prohibited conducting speleological research during the breeding season of bats - from March 1 to June 30;
14. It is prohibited grazing of domestic animals in forest areas, which are designated for forests in the old age phase.
15. It is prohibited extraction of wood and biomass in forests in the old age phase, except in cases of damage of more than 50% of the area of the respective forest in the old age phase due to natural disasters and calamities; in old age forests, through which existing forest roads and other infrastructure objects pass, if proven necessary, felling of single dry, damaged, endangered or obstructing the safe movement of people and vehicles or the normal functioning of infrastructure objects trees is allowed;

Overlapping (partial or full):
1. Natural Monument: Kozhuha
2. Natural Park: Belasitsa
3. Protected Site: Halma Skalata
4. Protected Site: Kartalets
5. Protected Site: Nahodishte na katerliva efedra
6. Protected Site: Nahodishte na srebrista povetitsa
7. Protected Site: Rupite
8. PZ under the Bird Directive: Rupite


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