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Ostritsa   (Unique identification code in the register: BG0001375)

Category: PZ under the Habitat Directive

Map:

Map of the object


Area: 4429.5 hectares

Location:
1. District: Pernik, Municipality: Pernik, Locality: Bosnek, Kralev dol, Pernik, Studena
2. District: Pernik, Municipality: Radomir, Locality: Chervena mogila, Drugan, Radomir, Staro selo, Stefanovo

Falls in the territory of the following Regional Inspectorates of Environment and Water (RIEW):
Sofia - rayon Pernik - ul."Blagoy Gebrev" № 15, et.1

Ordinance for announcement:
Ordinance No.РД-321 from 31.03.2021 2-2-1375-321-2021

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 40A0*, 40C0*, 6110*, 6210 (* important orchid habitats), 62A0, 8210 and 91M0;
3. Improvement of the habitats of the species Testudo hermanni and Testudo graeca;
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;
5. Maintaining the connectivity of the habitats of the conservation priority species Ursus arctos and Canis lupus.

Objects of protection (species or habitats):
1. Article 6, paragraph 1, section 1 from Biological Diversity Act: 4090 Endemic oro-Mediterranean heaths with gorse; 40A0 * Subcontinental peri-Pannonic scrub; 40C0 * Ponto-Sarmatic deciduous thickets 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); 62A0 Eastern sub-Mediterranean dry grasslands; 8210 Calcareous rocky slopes with chasmophytic vegetation; 9150 Medio-European limestone beech forests of the (Cephalanthero-Fagion); 9170 Galio-Carpinetum oak-hornbeam forests; 9180 * Tilio-Acerion forests of slopes, screes and ravines; 91M0 Pannonian-Balkanic turkey oak-sessile oak forests; 91H0 * Pannonian woods with Quercus pubescens;
2. Article 6, paragraph 1, section 2 from Biological Diversity Act: Mammals - Canis lupus, Ursus arctos, Vormela peregusna; Amphibians and reptiles - Bombina variegata, Triturus karelinii, Testudo hermanni, Testudo graeca; Intervertebrates - Lucanus cervus, Morimus funereus, Rosalia alpina, Lignyoptera fumidaria, Euplagia (Callimorpha) quadripunctaria; Plants - Himantoglossum caprinum, Centaurea immanuelis-loewii, Echium russicum.

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 issuing permits for construction and any construction in the localities of the species Centaurea immanuelis-loewii, determined with coordinate registers according to annexes No. 2 and No. 3, an integral part of this order, as well as initiating, conducting or continuing procedures in accordance with the Law on Environmental Protection, the Biodiversity Act, Forests Act, the Law on the Protection of Agricultural Lands, the Law on the Ownership and Use of Agricultural Lands, the Law on Territorial Planning and the corresponding by-laws, which are a prerequisite for the implementation of construction; the prohibition does not apply to the repair and reconstruction of existing objects and to the construction, repair or reconstruction of facilities (elements) of the technical infrastructure;
4. It is prohibited search and exploration of common minerals (construction and rock cladding materials), discovery of new and expansion of concession areas for extraction of common minerals in the territories occupied by the natural habitats under item 2.1, and in the deposits of the Immanuel cornflower species (Centaurea immanuelis-loewii), defined with a coordinate register according to Annex №2, an integral part of this order; the prohibition does not apply in cases in which, on the date of publication of the order in the State Gazette, a procedure has been initiated for the granting of search and/or exploration permits, and/or for the granting of a mining concession under the Law on Underground Resources, Law on Concessions, or a procedure has been initiated for their coordination in accordance with Chapter 6 of the Law on Environmental Protection and/or Art. 31 of the Biodiversity act, or an application for registration of a commercial discovery has been submitted;
5. 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;
6. 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;
7. It is prohibited to ploughing, afforestation and conversion into permanent plantations of the deposits of the Immanuel cornflower (Centaurea immanuelis-loewii), determined with a coordinate register according to Annex No. 2, an integral part of this order;
8. 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;
9. 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;
10. 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;
11. 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);
12. It is prohibited to use of irrigation water that contains harmful substances and waste above the permissible norms;
13. It is prohibited burning of stubble, syllables, roadside strips and areas with dry and moisture-loving vegetation;
14. 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;
15. It is prohibited grazing of domestic animals in forest areas, which are designated for forests in the old age phase.
16. It is prohibited construction of roads of second and higher class without ensuring the construction of appropriate green infrastructure for crossing of bears and other animals.

Overlapping (partial or full):
1. Managed Nature Reserve: Ostritsa
2. Protected Site: Belite Kladentsi
3. Protected Site: Golo bardo - nahodishte na Muhovidna pchelitsa


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