Aitoska planina   (Unique identification code in the register: BG0000151)

Category: PZ under the Habitat Directive

Map:
Map of the object

Area: 29385.68 hectares

Location:
1. District: Burgas, Municipality: Aytos, Locality: Aytos, Cherna mogila, Dryankovets, Lyaskovo, Maglen, Peshtersko, Sadievo, Zetyovo
2. District: Burgas, Municipality: Burgas, Locality: Balgarovo, Banevo, Bryastovets, Draganovo, Izvorishte, Mirolyubovo, Rudnik, Vetren
3. District: Burgas, Municipality: Pomorie, Locality: Bata, Belodol, Dabnik, Gaberovo, Galabets, Goritsa, Kableshkovo, Kamenar, Kosovets, Laka, Medovo, Poroy, Stratsin

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-1018 from 17.12.2020 2-2-151-1018-2020

Ordinance for change:

Record for protected zone (link):

Aims of the declaration:
1. Protection and maintenance of natural habitats types under item 2.1, habitats referred to item 2.2. species, their populations and distribution within the area to achieve and maintain their favorable conservation status in the relevant biogeographical region;
2. Increase the contribution of the protected area to the area of natural habitats with code 62A0 in the Black sea biogeographical region
3. Improving the structure and functions of natural habitats with codes 6220 *, 6240 *, 91AA * and 91M0 in the both biogeogaphical regions;
4. Improving the structure and functions of natural habitats with codes 6210 (* important orchid habitats), 62A0 and 6430 in the part of the protected zone falling within the Black Sea biogeographical region;
5. Improvement of habitats of species Testudo hermanni and Testudo graeca in both biogeographical regions.
6. Improvement of habitats of species Triturus karelinii, Bombina bombina and Emys orbicularis in the part of protected zone, falling in the Black Sea biogeoraphical region;
7. 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: 1530 * Pannonic salt steppes and salt marshes; 4090 Endemic oro-Mediterranean heaths with gorse; 6210 Semi-natural dry grasslands and scrubland facies on calcareous substrates (Festuco-Brometalia) (* important orchid sites); 6220 * Pseudo-steppe with grasses and annuals of the Thero-Brachypodietea; 6240 * Sub-Pannonic steppic grasslands; 6430 Hydrophilous tall herb fringe communities of plains and of the montane to alpine levels; 62A0 Eastern sub-Mediterranean dry grasslands; 8220 Siliceous rocky slopes with chasmophytic vegetation; 8230 Siliceous rock with pioneer vegetation of the Sedo-Scleranthion or Sedo albi-Veronicion dillenii; 91AA * Eastern white oak forests; 91M0 Pannonian-Balkanic turkey oak –sessile oak forests;
2. Article 6, paragraph 1, section 2 from Biological Diversity Act: Mammals - Canis lupus, Vormela peregusna, Lutra lutra, Spermophilus citellus, Mesocricetus newtoni, Myomimus roachi, Myotis bechsteinii; Amphibians and reptiles - Triturus karelinii, Bombina bombina, Elaphe sauromates, Emys orbicularis, Testudo hermanni, Testudo graeca; Fish - Rhodeus amarus, Cobitis taenia; Intervertebrates - Cerambyx cerdo, Morimus funereus, Lucanus cervus, Coenagrion ornatum, Vertigo angustior, Unio crassus.

Current prohibitions and regimes:
1. It is prohibited conducting races with motor vehicles outside the existing roads in non-urban territories;
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 change the way of permanent use, plowing, afforestation and conversion into permanent plantations of meadows, pastures and grassland, when using agricultural lands as such;
4. 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;
5. 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;
6. 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;
7. 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, epizootic and epidemic;
8. 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);
9. It is prohibited to use of irrigation water that contains harmful substances and waste above the permissible norms;
10. It is prohibited burning of stubble, syllables, roadside strips and areas with dry and moisture-loving vegetation;
11. 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;
12. It is prohibited grazing of domestic animals in forest areas, which are designated for forests in the old age phase.

Overlapping (partial or full):
1. Natural Monument: Koriyata-Vekovna Bryastova Gora
2. PZ under the Bird Directive: Emine

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Last update of the web application: 01.08.2011
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