Strandzha   (Unique identification code in the register: BG0001007)

Category: PZ under the Habitat Directive

Map:
Map of the object

Area: 153529.61 hectares

Location:
1. District: Burgas, Municipality: Malko Tarnovo, Locality: Bliznak, Brashlyan, Byala voda, Evrenozovo, Gramatikovo, Kalovo, Malko Tarnovo, Mladezhko, Slivarovo, Stoilovo, Vizitsa, Zabernovo, Zvezdets
2. District: Burgas, Municipality: Primorsko, Locality: Novo Panicharevo
3. District: Burgas, Municipality: Sredets, Locality: Granichar
4. District: Burgas, Municipality: Tsarevo, Locality: Balgari, Brodilovo, Fazanovo, Izgrev, Kondolovo, Kosti, Rezovo, Sinemorets, Tsarevo, Varvara, Velika, Аhtopol

Falls in the territory of the following Regional Inspectorates of Environment and Water (RIEW):
Burgas - ul."Perustica" 67,et.3,p.k.219

Ordinance for announcement:
Ordinance No.РД-50 from 17.01.2024 2-2-1007-50-2024

Ordinance for change:

Record for protected zone (link):

Aims of the declaration:
1. Protection and maintenance of the type of natural habitat 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 Black sea biogeographical region;
2. Increase the contribution of the protected area to the area of natural habitats with codes 7220*;
3. Improving the structure and functions of natural habitats with codes 2110, 2120, 2180, 2190, 3150, 3260, 6210 (*important orchid habitats), 6220*, 6430, 7220*, 91E0*, 91F0, 91M0 and 92A0;
4. Improvement of habitats of species Bombina bombina, Triturus karelinii, Testudo hermanni and Testudo graeca;
5. If necessary, improvement of the condition or restoration of types of natural habitats refered in item 2.1, habitats of the species refered in item 2.2 and their populations.

Objects of protection (species or habitats):
1. Article 6, paragraph 1, section 1 from Biological Diversity Act: 1110 Sandbanks which are slightly covered by sea water all the time; 1130 Estuaries; 1140 Mudflats and sandflats not covered by seawater at low tide; 1160 Large shallow inlets and bays; 1170 Reefs; 1210 Annual vegetation of drift lines; 1240 Vegetated sea cliffs of the Mediterranean coasts with endemic Limonium; 2110 Embryonic shifting dunes; 2120 Shifting dunes along the shoreline with Ammophila arenaria ("white dunes"); 2180 Wooded dunes; 2190 Humid dune slacks; 3150 Natural eutrophic lakes with Magnopotamion or Hydrocharition; 3260 Water courses of plain to montane levels with the Ranunculion fluitantis and Callitricho-Batrachion; 3270 Rivers with muddy banks with Chenopodion rubri and Bidention p.p. ; 4030 European dry heaths; 6110 * Rupicolous calcareous or basophilic grasslands of the Alysso-Sedion albi; 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; 62A0 Eastern sub-Mediterranean dry grasslands; 6430 Hydrophilous tall herb fringe communities of plains and of the montane to alpine levels; 6510 Lowland hay meadows; 7220 * Petrifying springs with tufa formation (Cratoneurion); 8210 Calcareous rocky slopes with chasmophytic vegetation; 8220 Siliceous rocky slopes with chasmophytic vegetation; 8230 Siliceous rock with pioneer vegetation of the Sedo-Scleranthion or Sedo albi-Veronicion dillenii; 8310 Caves not open to the public; 8330 Submerged or partially submerged sea caves; 9170 Hornbeam forestsGalio-Carpinetum; 9180 * Tilio-Acerion forests of slopes, screes and ravines; 91AA * Eastern white oak woods; 91E0 * Alluvial forests with Alnus glutinosa and Fraxinus excelsior (Alno-Pandion, Alnion incanae, Salicion albae); 91F0 Riparian mixed forests of Quercus robur, Ulmus laevis and Fraxinus excelsior or Fraxinus angustifolia along the great rivers (Ulmenion minoris); 91G0 * Pannonic woods with Quercus petraea and Carpinus betulus; 91M0 Pannonian-Balkanic turkey oak-sessile oak forests; 91S0 * Western Pontic beech forests; 91Z0 Moesian silver lime woods; 92A0 Galleries withSalix alba and Populus alba;
2. Article 6, paragraph 1, section 2 from Biological Diversity Act: Mammals - Rhinolophus ferrumequinum, Rhinolophus hipposideros, Rhinolophus blasii, Rhinolophus еuryale, Rhinolophus mehelyi, Myotis myotis, Myotis bechsteinii, Myotis blythii, Myotis capaccinii, Трицветен нощник Myotis emarginatus, Barbastella barbastellus, Miniopterus schreibersii, Myomimus roachi, Canis lupus, Lutra lutra, Vormela peregusna, Lynx, Tursiops truncatus, Phocoena phocoena; Amphians and reptiles - Bombina bombina, Triturus karelinii, Emys orbicularis, Testudo hermanni, Testudo graeca, Mauremys caspica, Elaphe sauromates; Fish - Alosa immaculata, Alosa tanaica, Barbus bergi, Alburnus schischkovi, Rhodeus amarus, Cobitis taenia; Intervertebrates - Cerambyx cerdo, Morimus funereus, Bolbelasmus unicornis, Osmoderma eremita, Lucanus cervus, Rosalia alpina, Lycaena dispar, Euplagia (Callimorpha) quadripunctaria, Euphydryas aurinia, Coenagrion ornatum, Ophiogomphus cecilia , Paracaloptenus caloptenoides, Unio crassus.

Current prohibitions and regimes:
1. It is prohibited conducting races with motor vehicles outside the existing roads and the places regulated for that;
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 to drainage of coastal floodplains of rivers and other natural water bodies , changes in the hydromorphological regime through drainage, removal of sediments, correction, barricading of rivers, except in cases in urban areas and in cases of flood danger, which may lead to a risk to human life and health or the occurrence of material damage, in case of disasters and accidents and to improve the condition of the natural habitats and the habitats of the species under item 2.
4. It is prohibited damage and destruction of natural vegetation on the coastal beach and in dunes outside the active beach area, except in cases of removal of invasive and non-native species, as well as in cases of implementation of permissible investment proposals approved in accordance with environmental legislation;
5. It is prohibited passing or parking vehicles, trailers, semi-trailers, campers and caravans on dunes except for conducting fire-fighting, emergency, control and rescue activities;
6. It is prohibited use of bottom trawling and dredging means, including beam trawls and suction dredgers, disposal of dredged masses and ballasting of ships in the sea spaces of the zone;
7. It is forbidden to construct artificial underwater reefs and islands on habitats subject to conservation in the marine areas of the area;
8. 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;
9. 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;
10. 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;
11. 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;
12. 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;
13. 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);
14. It is prohibited to use of irrigation water that contains harmful substances and waste above the permissible norms;
15. It is prohibited burning of stubble, syllables, roadside strips and areas with dry and moisture-loving vegetation;
16. 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;
17. It is prohibited visits to unimproved caves during the breeding period of bats and during the hibernation period - from December 1 to July 31, with the exception of those for scientific purposes, in the presence of a permit under Art. 49, paragraph 1 from Biodiversity act;
18. It is prohibited carrying out felling in riparian natural forests and riparian tree strips in the 15-meter zone around permanent watercourses, except for the needs of facilities (elements) of the technical infrastructure, for prevention of dangers endangering human life and health, in case of disasters and accidents, for maintenance / improvement of natural habitats and habitats of the species under item 2; the cases of implementation of investment proposals, approved or agreed upon in accordance with Chapter Six of the Law on Environmental Protection and/or Art. 31 of the Biodiversity Act as of the date of entry into force of the order;
19. 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;
20. It is prohibited grazing of domestic animals in forest areas, which are designated for forests in the old age phase.
21. It is prohibited fishing with gill nets without the use of pingers with models approved by the Minister for the Environment and Water; the ban enters into force from 04/01/2024;
22. It is prohibited to fill drying tributaries with waste and earth masses.

Overlapping (partial or full):
1. Natural Monument: Peshteri I Izvori Na Reka Mladezhka
2. Natural Park: Strandzha
3. Protected Site: Gorna Elenitsa
4. Protected Site: Mechite Dolove
5. Reserve: Silkosia
6. Reserve: Uzunbodzhak
7. PZ under the Bird Directive: Strandzha

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Last update of the web application: 01.08.2011
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