Kresna - Ilindentsi   (Unique identification code in the register: BG0000366)

Category: PZ under the Habitat Directive

Map:
Map of the object

Area: 48596.52 hectares

Location:
1. District: Blagoevgrad, Municipality: Kresna, Locality: Budiltsi, Dolna Gradeshnitsa, Gorna Breznitsa, Kresna, Oshtava, Slivnitsa, Stara Kresna, Vlahi
2. District: Blagoevgrad, Municipality: Sandanski, Locality: Ploski
3. District: Blagoevgrad, Municipality: Simitli, Locality: Brestovo, Brezhani, Gradevo, Krupnik, Mechkul, Polena, Poleto, Rakitna, Senokos, Simitli, Suhostrel, Sushitsa, Troskovo
4. District: Blagoevgrad, Municipality: Strumyani, Locality: Dobri laki, Goreme, Gorna Krushitsa, Gorna Ribnitsa, Ilindentsi, Kamenitsa, Karpelevo, Klepalo, Mikrevo, Razdol, Sedelets, Tsaparevo, Velyushtets, Vrakupovitsa

Falls in the territory of the following Regional Inspectorates of Environment and Water (RIEW):
Blagoevgrad - ul."Svoboda" № 1

Ordinance for announcement:
Ordinance No.РД-264 from 31.03.2021 2-2-366-264-2021

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 Continental biogeographical region;
2. Increase the contribution of the protected area to the area of natural habitats with codes 6220* and 8230 in the Alpine and Continental biogeographical region
3. Improving the structure and functions of natural habitats with codes 6210 (* important orchid habitats), 6220*, 6520, 9530*, 91E0* and 91M0 in both biogeographical regions;
4. Improving the structure and functions of natural habitats with codes 5210, 9180*, 9260, 9560*, 91AA*, 91CA, 91Z0, 92A0, 92C0, 92D0 in the part of the protected zone falling within the Continental biogeographical region and in a natural habitat with code 9110 in the part of the protected zone falling within the Alpine biogeographical region;
5. Improvement of habitats of species Myotis bechsteinii, (Triturus karelinii), (Elaphe quatuorlineata), (Elaphe situla), (Emys orbicularis) и (Testudo graeca in the part of the protected area falling within the Continental biogeographical region;
6. 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.
7. Maintaining the habitat connectivity of priority conservation species Brown bear (Ursus arctos) and European wolf (Canis lupus).

Objects of protection (species or habitats):
1. Article 6, paragraph 1, section 1 from Biological Diversity Act: 4060 Alpine and Boreal heaths; 4070 * Bushes withPinus mugo; 5210 Arborescent matorral with Juniperus spp. ; 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; 6230 * Species-rich Nardus grasslands, on siliceous substrates in mountain areas; 62A0 Eastern sub-Mediterranean dry grasslands; 62D0 Оро-мизийски ацидофилни тревни съобщества; 6430 Hydrophilous tall herb fringe communities of plains and of the montane to alpine levelsс; 6510 Lowland hay meadows; 6520 Mountain hay meadows; 8110 Siliceous scree of the montane to snow levels; 8210 Calcareous rocky slopes with chasmophytic vegetation; 8220 Siliceous rocky slopes with chasmophytic vegetation; 8230 Siliceous rock with pioneer vegetation of theSedo-Scleranthion or Sedo albi-Veronicion dillenii; 8310 Caves not open to the public; 9110 Beech forests Luzulo-Fagetum; 9130 Beech forests Asperulo-Fagetum; 9150 Medio-European limestone beech forests of the (Cephalanthero-Fagion); 9170 Oak-hornbeam forests Galio-Carpinetum; 9180 * Tilio-Acerion forests of slopes, screes and ravines; 91AA * Eastern white oak woods; 91BA Moesian silver fir forests; 91CA Rhodopide and Balkan Range Scots pine forests; 91E0 * Alluvial forests with Alnus glutinosa and Fraxinus excelsior (Alno-Pandion, Alnion incanae, Salicion albae); 91M0 Pannonian-Balkanic turkey oak-sessile oak forests; 91Z0 Moesian silver lime woods; 9260 Woods with Castanea sativa; 92A0 Riparian galleries with Salix alba and Populus alba; 92C0 Woods with Platanus orientalis; 92D0 Southern riparian galleries and thickets (Nerio-Tamaricetea и Securinegion tinctoriae); 9410 Acidophilous Picea forests of the montane to alpine levels (Vaccinio-Piceetea); 9530 * (Sub-) Mediterranean pine forests with endemic black pines; 9560 * Endemic forests with Juniperus spp. ; 95A0 High oro-Mediterranean pine forests;
2. Article 6, paragraph 1, section 2 from Biological Diversity Act: Mammals - Ursus arctos, Canis lupus, Vormela peregusna, Lutra lutra, Rhinolophus ferrumequinum, Rhinolophus hipposideros, Rhinolophus euryale, Myotis myotis, Myotis emarginatus, Myotis blythii, Myotis bechsteinii, Miniopterus schreibersii, Barbastella barbastellus; Amphibians and reptiles - Bombina variegata, Triturus karelinii, Elaphe quatuorlineata, Elaphe situla, Emys orbicularis, Testudo graeca, Testudo hermanni; Fish - Aspius aspius, Barbus cyclolepis, Rhodeus amarus, Cobitis taenia; Intervertebrates - Austropo- tamobius torrentium, Ophiogomphus cecilia, Балканско воденичарче Cordulegaster heros, Paracaloptenus caloptenoides, Lucanus cervus, Cerambyx cerdo, Morimus funereus, Probaticus subrugosus, Rosalia alpina, Cucujus cinnaberinus, Eriogaster catax, Erannis ankeraria, Lycaena dispar, Polyommatus eroides, Euplagia Callimorpha quadripunctaria, Unio crassus; Plants - Centaurea immanuelis-loewii.

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 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;
7. 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;
8. 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;
9. 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);
10. It is prohibited to use of irrigation water that contains harmful substances and waste above the permissible norms;
11. It is prohibited burning of stubble, syllables, roadside strips and areas with dry and moisture-loving vegetation;
12. 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;
13. It is prohibited conducting speleological research during the breeding season of bats - from March 1 to June 30;
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 carrying out felling in natural habitat with code 91E0 *, 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, as well as in the cases of realization of admissible investment proposals, approved by the order of the ecological legislation;
17. 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. National Park: Pirin
2. Natural Monument: Piramida ot granit v mestnostta Momina Skala
3. Natural Monument: Sharaliiska peshtera
4. Protected Site: Estestveno Nahodishte Na Chinar
5. Protected Site: Estestveno Nahodishte Na Chinar - Buyna
6. Protected Site: Estestveno Nahodishte Na Chinar - Kuchkarnika
7. Protected Site: Kresnensko Defile
8. Protected Site: Moravska
9. Protected Site: Nahodishte na osilest zdravets
10. Reserve: Tisata

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Last update of the web application: 01.08.2011
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