Mandra - Poda   (Unique identification code in the register: BG0000271)

Category: PZ under both Directives

Map:
Map of the object

Area: 6139.17 hectares

Location:
1. District: Burgas, Municipality: Burgas, Locality: Burgas, Dimchevo, Izvor, Tvarditsa
2. District: Burgas, Municipality: Kameno, Locality: Cherni vrah, Konstantinovo
3. District: Burgas, Municipality: Sozopol, Locality: Prisad, Zidarovo
4. District: Burgas, Municipality: Sredets, Locality: Debelt

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-131 from 10.02.2012 2-3-271-131-2012

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;
2. Protection and maintenance of natural habitats types under item 2.3, habitats referred to item 2.4. species, their populations and distribution within the area to achieve and maintain their favorable conservation status in Black sea biogeographical region;
3. Improving the state of the habitats of bird species Anser erythropus, Anas acuta, Tadorna ferruginea, Falco naumanni, Falco vespertinus, Falco cherrug, Crex crex, Alcedo atthis and Dendrocopos syriacus;
4. Improving the structure and functions of natural habitats with codes 3150, 6210 (* important orchid habitats), 6220 * and 91M0;
5. Improvement of habitats of species Triturus karelinii, Bombina bombina, Testudo hermanni, Testudo graeca, Emys orbicularis, Elaphe sauromates and Elaphe situla;
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.

Objects of protection (species or habitats):
1. Article 6, paragraph 1, section 3 from Biological Diversity Act: Red-throated Loon (Gavia stellata), Black-throated Loon (Gavia arctica), Horned Grebe (Podiceps auritus), Great White Pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus), Dalmatian Pelican (Pelecanus crispus), Common Shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis desmarestii), Pygmy Cormorant (Phalacrocorax pygmeus), Great Bittern (Botaurus stellaris), Little Bittern (Ixobrychus minutus), Black-crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax), Squacco Heron (Ardeola ralloides), Little Egret (Egretta garzetta), Great Egret (Egretta alba), Purple Heron (Ardea purpurea), Black Storck (Ciconia nigra), White Storck (Ciconia ciconia), Glossy Ibis (Plegadis falcinellus), Erasian Spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia), Greater Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber), Tundra Swan (Cygnus columbianus bewickii), Whooper Swan (Cygnus cygnus), Lesser White-fronted Goose (Anser erythropus), Ferruginosus Duck (Aythya nyroca), Smew (Mergus albellus), White-headed Duck (Oxyura leucocephala), Red-breasted Goose (Branta ruficollis), Ruddy Shelduck (Tadorna ferruginea), Osprey (Pandion haliaetus), European Honey Buzzard (Pernis apivorus), Black Kite (Milvus migrans), Red Kite (Milvus milvus), White-tailed Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla), Egyptian Vulture (Neophron percnopterus), Griffon Vulture (Gyps fulvus), Short-toed Snake Eagle (Circaetus gallicus), Marsh-harrier (Circus aeruginosus), Hen Harrier (Circus cyaneus), Pallid Harrier (Circus macrourus), Montagu?s Harrier (Circus pygargus), Lesser Spotted Eagle (Aquila pomarina), Imperial Eagle (Aquila heliaca), Greater Spotted Eagle (Aquila clanga), Booted Eagle (Hieraaetus pennatus), Levant Sparrowhawk (Accipiter brevipes), Long-legged Buzzard (Buteo rufinus), Lesser Kestrel (Falco naumanni), Red-footed Falcon (Falco vespertinus), Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus), Saker Falcon (Falco cherrug), Common Crane (Grus grus), Spotted Crake (Porzana porzana), Little Crake (Porzana parva), Corn Crake (Crex crex), Common Stilt (Himantopus himantopus), Pied Avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta), Stone Curlew (Burhinus oedicnemus), Common Pratincole (Glareola pratincola), Kentish Plover (Charadrius alexandrinus), European Golden Plover (Pluvialis apricaria), Ruff (Philomachus pugnax), Great Snipe (Gallinago media), Bar-tailed Godwit (Limosa lapponica), Slender-biled Curlew (Numenius tenuirostris), Wood Sandpiper (Tringa glareola), Terek Sandpiper (Xenus cinereus), Red-necked Phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus), Mediterranean Gull (Larus melanocephalus), Little Gull (Larus minutus), Slender-billed Gull (Larus genei), Gull-billed Tern (Gelochelidon nilotica), Caspian Tern (Sterna caspia), Sandwich Tern (Sterna sandvicensis), Common Tern (Sterna hirundo), Little Tern (Sterna albifrons), Whiskered Tern (Chlidonias hybridus), Black Tern (Chlidonias niger), Nightjar (Caprimulgus europaeus), Common Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis), European Roller (Coracias garrulus), Syrian Woodpecker (Dendrocopos syriacus), Calandra Lark (Melanocorypha calandra), Tawny Pipit (Anthus campestris), Red-backed Shrike (Lanius collurio), Lesser Grey Shrike (Lanius minor), Moustached Warbler (Acrocephalus melanopogon), Barred Warbler (Sylvia nisoria);
2. Article 6, paragraph 1, section 4 from Biological Diversity Act: Little Grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis), Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus), Red-necked Grebe (Podiceps grisegena), Black-necked Grebe (Podiceps nigricollis), Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea), Mute Swan (Cygnus olor), Greater White-fronted Goose (Anser albifrons), Greylag Goose (Anser anser), Common Shelduck (Tadorna tadorna), Eurasian Wigeon (Anas penelope), Gadwall (Anas strepera), Common Teal (Anas crecca), Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos), Pintail (Anas acuta), Garganey (Anas querquedula), Northern Shoveler (Anas clypeata), Red-crested Pochard (Netta rufina), Common Pochard (Aythya ferina), Tufted Duck (Aythya fuligula), Greater Scaup (Aythya marila), Coomon Eider (Somateria mollissima), Long-tailed Duck (Clangula hyemalis), Common Scoter (Melanitta nigra), Velvet Scoter (Melanitta fusca), Common Goldeneye (Bucephala clangula), Red-breasted Merganser (Mergus serrator), Common Merganser (Mergus merganser), Eurasian Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus), Common Buzzard (Buteo buteo), Common Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus), Eurasian Hobby (Falco subbuteo), Water Rail (Rallus aquaticus), Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus), Eurasian Coot (Fulica atra), Eurasian Oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus), Little Ringed Plover (Charadrius dubius), Ringed Plover (Charadrius hiaticula), Grey Plover (Pluvialis squatarola), Northern Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus), Red Knot (Calidris canutus), Sanderling (Calidris alba), Little Stint (Calidris minuta), Temminck's Stint (Calidris temminckii), Curlew Sandpiper (Calidris ferruginea), Dunlin (Calidris alpina), Broad-billed Sandpiper (Limicola falcinellus), Jack Snipe (Lymnocryptes minimus), Common Snipe (Gallinago gallinago), Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa), Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus), Eurasian Curlew (Numenius arquata), Spotted Redshank (Tringa erythropus), Common Redshank (Tringa totanus), Marsh Sandpiper (Tringa stagnatilis), Common Greenshank (Tringa nebularia), Green Sandpiper (Tringa ochropus), Common Sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos), Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres), Black-headed Gull (Larus ridibundus), Common Gull (Larus canus), Lesser Black-becked Gull (Larus fuscus), European Herring Gull (Larus argentatus), White-winged Tern (Chlidonias leucopterus), Caspian Gull (Larus cachinnans), European Bee-eater (Merops apiaster), Sand Martin (Riparia riparia).
3. Article 6, paragraph 1, section 1 from Biological Diversity Act: 1110 Sandbanks which are slightly covered by sea water all the time; 1130 Estuaries; 1140 Mudflats and sandflats not covered by seawater at low tide; 1150 * Coastal lagoons; 1160 Large shallow inlets and bays; 1310 Salicornia and other annuals colonizing mud and sand; 1410 Mediterranean salt meadows; 2110 Embryonic shifting dunes; 3150 Natural eutrophic lakes with Magnopotamion or Hydrocharition; 3260 Water courses of plain to montane levels with the Ranunculion fluitantis and Callitricho-Batrachion; 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; 8230 Siliceous rock with pioneer vegetation of the Sedo-Scleranthion or Sedo albi-Veronicion dillenii; 91МО Pannonian-Balkanic turkey oak –sessile oak forests;
4. Article 6, paragraph 1, section 2 from Biological Diversity Act: Mammals - Lutra lutra, Vormela peregusna, Rhinolophus hipposideros, Myotis blythii; Amphibians and reptiles - Triturus karelinii, Bombina bombina, Elaphe sauromates, Elaphe situla, Testudo hermanni, Testudo graeca, Emys orbicularis; Fish - Rhodeus amarus, Alburnus mandrensis, Cobitis taenia; Intervertebrates - Lucanus cervus, Cerambyx cerdo, Morimus funereus, Bolbelasmus unicornis, Euplagia Callimorpha quadripunctaria, Lycaena dispar, Coenonympha oedippus, Coenagrion ornatum, Paracaloptenus caloptenoides.

Current prohibitions and regimes:
1. It is prohibited to remove landscape features (hedges, single trees and groups) in the use of agricultural land;
2. 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;
3. 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;
4. It is prohibited the construction of wind generators for electricity, except those for which at the date of promulgation of the arrest in the ''Official Gazette" has started proceedings under Chapter Six of the Law for Environmental Protection and / or art. 31 of the Law for Biodiversity. The regime does not apply to wind generators used as their own sources of electricity;
5. It is prohibited the construction of new photovoltaic systems for electricity in pastures, meadows and grassland, except those for which at the date of promulgation of the arrest in the ''Official Gazette" has started proceedings under Chapter Six of the Law for Environmental Protection and / or art. 31 of the Law for Biodiversity. The regime does not apply to building ramp, roof and facade photovoltaic systems used by own sources of electricity;
6. It is prohibited to carry out drainage ang overdrying activities or modifying the natural water system of zatons, swamps, meadows and natural water sites, while carring out activities to improve the status of the water ecosystems and habitats;
7. It is prohibited mowing of cane during the period from 1 march to 15 august;
8. It is prohibited setting on fire cane massif and coastal vegetation;
9. It is prohibited the opening of new quarries and expanding the concession areas of existing quarries for the extraction of mineral resources except those for which the date of promulgation of the order in "State Gazette" has started a procedure for granting permits for prospecting and / or study of Mineral Resources Act and / or concession for extraction of Mineral Resources Act and concessions Act or agreed under Chapter Six of the Law on environmental Protection and / or art. 31 of the Biodiversity Act;
10. It is prohibited to plow and afforest meadows and other unforested forest territories within the boundaries of non-forest natural habitats under item 2.3 except in cases of proven need for protection against erosion and flood rain
11. It is prohibited introduction into nature and deliberate distribution of non-native species;
12. It is prohibited conducting races with motor vehicles outside the existing roads;
13. 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;
14. It is prohibited damage and destruction of natural vegetation in the coastal beaches and indunes outside the active beach area, except in the case of removal of invasive and non-native species as well as in the cases of implementation of eligible investment proposals approved by environmental legislation.;
15. It is prohibited the use of bottom trawling and dredging means, disposal of dredging masses and re-ballasting of ships in the sea areas in the zone;
16. It is forbidden to construct artificial underwater reefs and islands on habitats subject to conservation in the marine areas of the area;
17. 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;
18. 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);
19. It is prohibited to use of irrigation water that contains harmful substances and waste above the permissible norms;
20. 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;
21. 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. Protected Site: Poda
2. Protected Site: Ustieto Na Reka Izvorska
3. Protected Site: Uzungeren

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Last update of the web application: 01.08.2011
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