Karaboaz   (Unique identification code in the register: BG0000335)

Category: PZ under the Habitat Directive

Map:
Map of the object

Area: 13661.99 hectares

Location:
1. District: Pleven, Municipality: Dolna Mitropolia, Locality: Baykal, Krushovene
2. District: Pleven, Municipality: Gulyantsi, Locality: Brest, Dabovan, Dolni Vit, Gigen, Gulyantsi, Iskar, Milkovitsa, Somovit, Zagrazhden

Falls in the territory of the following Regional Inspectorates of Environment and Water (RIEW):
Pleven - ul."Aleksander Stambolijski"1A

Ordinance for announcement:
Ordinance No.РД-289 from 31.03.2021 2-2-335-289-2021

Ordinance for change:

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 1530*, 2340*, 3150, 3270, 91F0 and 92A0;
3. Improvement of the habitats of the species 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;

Objects of protection (species or habitats):
1. Article 6, paragraph 1, section 1 from Biological Diversity Act: 1530 * Pannonic salt steppes and salt marshes; 2340 * Pannonic inland dunes; 3130 Oligotrophic to mesotrophic standing waters with vegetation of the Littorelletea uniflorae and/or Isoeto-Nanojuncetea; 3150 Natural eutrophic lakes with Magnopotamion or Hydrocharition; 3270 Rivers with muddy banks with Chenopodion rubri and Bidention p.p.; 6430 Hydrophilous tall herb fringe communities of plains and of the montane to alpine levels;; 91F0 Riparian mixed forests of Quercus robur, Ulmus laevis and Fraxinus excelsior or Fraxinus angustifolia , along the great rivers (Ulmenion minoris); 91E0 *Alluvial forests with Alnus glutinosa and Fraxinus excelsior (Alno-Padion, Alnion incanae, Salicion albae); 92D0Southern riparian galleries and thickets (Nerio-Tamaricetea and Securinegion tinctoriae);
2. Article 6, paragraph 1, section 2 from Biological Diversity Act: Mammals - Lutra lutra, Mustela eversmanii, Spermophilus citellus, Mesocricetus newtoni; Amphibians and reptiles - Bombina bombina, Triturus dobrogicus, Elaphe sauromates, Emys orbicularis, Testudo graeca; Fish - Alosa immaculata, Eudontomyzon mariae, Romanogobio vladykovi, Aspius aspius, Rhodeus amarus, Misgurnus fossilis, Barbus meridionalis, Gymnocephalus baloni, Gymnocephalus schraetzer, Cobitis taenia, Zingel zingel, Zingel streber, Pelecus cultratus; Intervertebrates - Ophiogomphus cecilia, Morimus funereus, Lycaena dispar, Theodoxus transversalis, Unio crassus.

Current prohibitions and regimes:
1. It is prohibited conducting races with motor vehicles outside the existing roads;
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 withdraw alluvial deposits from the river within the habitats under item 2.1 except in case of established need to maintain its conductivity, as well as to improve the condition of natural habitats and habitats of species under item 2;
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 conversion to permanent plantations of other grass areas (arable land not included in crop rotation for 5 years or more) within the boundaries of natural habitat with code 2340*;
7. 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;
8. 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;
9. 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;
10. 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);
11. It is prohibited to use of irrigation water that contains harmful substances and waste above the permissible norms;
12. It is prohibited burning of stubble, syllables, roadside strips and areas with dry and moisture-loving vegetation;
13. It is prohibited grazing of domestic animals in forest areas, which are designated for forests in the old age phase.
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;

Overlapping (partial or full):
1. Protected Site: Gendzhov Orman
2. Protected Site: Katinata

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Last update of the web application: 01.08.2011
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