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Tvardishka planina   (Unique identification code in the register: BG0000211)

Category: PZ under the Habitat Directive

Map:

Map of the object


Area: 38649.52 hectares

Location:
1. District: Sliven, Municipality: Kotel, Locality: Borintsi
2. District: Sliven, Municipality: Sliven, Locality: Bozhevtsi, Byala, Gradsko, Izgrev, Novachevo, Sredorek, Stara reka, Zaychari
3. District: Sliven, Municipality: Tvarditsa, Locality: Borov dol, Byala palanka, Tvarditsa, Zhalt briag
4. District: Targovishte, Municipality: Аntonovo, Locality: Stevrek
5. District: Veliko Tarnovo, Municipality: Elena, Locality: Bebrovo, Boykovtsi, Buynovtsi, Chakali, Ilakov rat, Kamenari, Konstantin, Kostel, Maryan, Maysko, Miykovtsi, Palitsi

Falls in the territory of the following Regional Inspectorates of Environment and Water (RIEW):
1. Burgas - ul."Perustica" 67,et.3,p.k.219
2. SHumen - ul."Syedinenie" 71 et.4
3. Stara Zagora - bul."Stara planina" № 2
4. Veliko Tarnovo - ul."N.Gabrovski" 68

Ordinance for announcement:
Ordinance No.РД-326 from 31.03.2021 2-2-211-326-2021

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 relevant biogeographical regions;
2. Improving the structure and functions of natural habitats with codes 6210 (*important orchid habitats), 62A0, 9180* and 91M0 in both biogeographical regions;
3. Improving the structure and functions of natural habitats with codes 9130 and 9530* in the part of the protected area falling within the Alpine biogeographical region;
4. Improving the structure and functions of natural habitats with codes 91AA* and 91G0* in the part of the protected area falling within the Continental biogeographical region;
5. Improvement of the habitats of the species (Emys orbicularis) in both biogeographical regions;
6. Improvement of the habitats of the species Rhinolophus euryale in the part of the protected area falling within the Alpine biogeographical region;
7. Improvement of the habitats of the species Myotis bechsteinii, Triturus karelinii, Testudo hermanni and Testudo graeca) in the part of the protected area falling within the Continental biogeographical region;
8. 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;
9. Maintaining habitat connectivity of priority species for conservation Ursus arctos and Canis lupus.

Objects of protection (species or habitats):
1. Article 6, paragraph 1, section 1 from Biological Diversity Act: 4060 Alpine and Boreal heaths; 6210 Semi-natural dry grasslands and scrubland facies on calcareous substrates (Festuco-Brometalia) (*important orchid habitats); 62A0 Eastern sub-Mediterranean dry grasslands 6430 Hydrophilous tall herb fringe communities of plains and of the montane to alpine levels; 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; 9110 Luzulo-Fagetum beech forests; 9130 Asperulo-Fagetum beech forests; 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; 91AA * Eastern white oak woods; 91G0 * Pannonic woods with Quercus petraea and Carpinus betulus; 91M0 Pannonian-Balkanic turkey oak-sessile oak forests; 9530 * Sub Mediterranean pine forests with endemic black pines;
2. Article 6, paragraph 1, section 2 from Biological Diversity Act: Mammals - Ursus arctos, Canis lupus, Vormela peregusna, Lutra lutra, Myotis myotis, Myotis blythii, Myotis bechsteinii, Myotis emarginatus, Rhinolophus ferrumequinum, Rhinolophus hipposideros, Rhinolophus euryale, Barbastella barbastellus; Amphibians and reptiles - Bombina variegata, Triturus karelinii, Elaphe sauromates, Emys orbicularis, Testudo hermanni, Testudo graeca; Fish - Sabanejewia aurata, Rhodeus amarus, Barbus meridionalis, Cottus gobio, Barbus cyclolepis, Romanogobio uranoscopus; Intervertebrates - Austropotamobius torrentium, Lucanus cervus, Cerambyx cerdo, Morimus funereus, Rosalia alpina, Euplagia (Callimorpha) quadripunctaria, Euphydryas aurinia, Polyommatus eroides, Cordulegaster heros, 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 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, as well as in cases of implementation of eligible plans, programs, projects or investment proposals approved in accordance with environmental legislation;
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 or the use of selective methods to combat invasive alien species;
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 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;
12. It is prohibited conducting speleological research during the breeding season of bats - from March 1 to June 30;
13. 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;
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 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: Haydushki Chukar
2. Managed Nature Reserve: Sini Bryag
3. Protected Site: Aglikina Polyana
4. Protected Site: Belokravishtnitsa
5. Protected Site: Bukova Gora
6. Protected Site: Markov Buk
7. Reserve: Byala Krava
8. PZ under the Bird Directive: Kotlenska planina


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