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Bulgarka   (Unique identification code in the register: BG0000399)

Category: PZ under both Directives

Map:

Map of the object


Area: 17970.27 hectares

Location:
1. District: Gabrovo, Municipality: Gabrovo, Locality: Charkovo, Gabrovo
2. District: Gabrovo, Municipality: Tryavna, Locality: Plachkovtsi, Prestoy, Radevtsi, Stanchov han
3. District: Stara Zagora, Municipality: Maglizh, Locality: Seltse

Falls in the territory of the following Regional Inspectorates of Environment and Water (RIEW):
1. Stara Zagora - bul."Stara planina" № 2
2. Veliko Tarnovo - ul."N.Gabrovski" 68

Ordinance for announcement:
Ordinance No.РД-848 from 08.11.2013 2-3-399-848-2013

Ordinance for change:

1. Change in the subject for conservation with Ordinance No.РД-281 from 31.03.2021
2. Change in the activities regime with Ordinance No.РД-281 from 31.03.2021
3. Change in the aims with Ordinance No.РД-281 from 31.03.2021

Record for protected zone (link):

Aims of the declaration:
1. Protection and maintenance of the habitats of the bird species referred to in items 2.1 and 2.2, their populations and distribution within the zone, in order to achieve and maintain their favorable condition;
2. Conservation and maintenance of the natural habitat types referred to in point 2.3, the habitats of the species referred to in point 2.4, their populations and distribution within the zone, in order to achieve and maintain their favorable conservation status in the relevant biogeographical regions;
3. Improving the state of the habitats of bird species Crex crex and Falco cherrug;
4. Increase the contribution of the protected zone to the area of natural habitats with code 8220 in the Alpine and Continental biogeographical region;
5. Improving the structure and functions of natural habitats with codes 9170, 9180*, 91G0* and 91W0 in both biogeographical regions;
6. Improving the structure and functions of natural habitats with codes 6430, 7220* and 9110 in the part of the protected zone, falling in the Alpine biogeographical region;
7. Improving the structure and functions of natural habitats with codes 9130 and 9150 in the part of the protected zone, falling in the Continental biogeographical region;
8. Improving the state of the habitats of species Emys orbicularis in both biogeographical regions;
9. Improving the state of the habitats of species Myotis bechsteinii,Triturus karelinii and Testudo hermanni in the part of the protected zone, falling in the Continental biogeographical region;
10. If necessary, improvement of the condition or restoration of types of natural habitats refered in item 2.3, habitats of the species refered in item 2 and their populations.
11. Maintaining the connectivity of the habitats of the priority conservation species Ursus arctos and Canis lupus, as well as the species Lynx lynx.

Objects of protection (species or habitats):
1. Article 6, paragraph 1, section 3 from Biological Diversity Act: Accipiter brevipes, Aegolius funereus, Lanius collurio, Alectoris graeca graeca, Aquila chrysaetos, Aquila heliaca, Aquila pomarina, Bonasa bonasia, Bubo bubo, Buteo rufinus, Caprimulgus europaeus, Ciconia ciconia, Ciconia nigra, Circaetus gallicus, Circus pygargus, Crex crex, Cygnus cygnus, Dendrocopos leucotos, Dendrocopos medius, Dendrocopos syriacus, Dryocopus martius, Egretta albaEgretta garzetta, Emberiza hortulana, Falco cherrug, Falco peregrinus, Ficedula parva, Ficedula semitorquata, Glaucidium passerinum, Hieraaetus pennatus, Lanius collurio, Lanius minor, Lullula arborea, Pandion haliaetus, Pernis apivorus, Picus canus, Strix uralensis, Tringa glareola, Земеродно рибарче Alcedo atthis.
2. Article 6, paragraph 1, section 4 from Biological Diversity Act: Buteo buteo, Falco tinnunculus, Merops apiaster, Phalacrocorax carbo, Scolopax rusticola.
3. Article 6, paragraph 1, section 1 from Biological Diversity Act: 6430 Hydrophilous tall herb fringe communities of plains and of the montane to alpine levels; 6510 Lowland hay meadows; 6520 Mountain hay meadows; 7220 * Petrifying springs with tufa formation (Cratoneurion); 7230 Alkaline fens 8220 Siliceous rocky slopes with chasmophytic vegetation; 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; 91BA Moesian silver fir forests 91E0 * Alluvial forests withAlnus glutinosa and Fraxinus excelsior (Alno-Pandion, Alnion incanae, Salicion albae); 91G0 * Pannonic woods with Quercus petraea and Carpinus betulus; 91W0 Moesian beech forests;
4. Article 6, paragraph 1, section 2 from Biological Diversity Act: Mammals - Ursus arctos, Canis lupus, Lynx lynx, Lutra lutra, Vormela peregusna, Rhinolophus ferrumequinum, Rhinolophus hipposideros, Myotis myotis, Myotis emarginatus, Myotis blythii, Myotis bechsteinii, Barbastella barbastellus; Amphibians and reptiles - Triturus karelinii, Bombina variegata, Emys orbicularis, Testudo hermanni, Testudo graeca; Fish - Sabanejewia aurata, Barbus meridionalis, Cottus gobio; Intervertebrates - Austropotamobius torrentium, Lucanus cervus, Cerambyx cerdo, Morimus funereus, Rosalia alpina, Euplagia Callimorpha quadripunctaria; Plants - Himantoglossum caprinum.

Current prohibitions and regimes:
1. 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;
2. 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;
3. It is prohibited to use unselected preventive for pest control in the agriculture and forestry;
4. It is prohibited mowing of meadows from the periphery to the center with fast-moving equipment before 15 July.
5. It is prohibited conducting races with motor vehicles outside the existing roads and the places regulated for that;
6. 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;
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 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 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 2.4.1;
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 new roads of the second and higher class without securing the construction of appropriate green infrastructure for the passage of bears and other animals.

Overlapping (partial or full):
1. Natural Monument: Skalen Venets-Mestnost Mahnatite Skali
2. Natural Monument: Vikanata Skala
3. Natural Park: Balgarka
4. Protected Site: Mehchenitsa - Yovovtsi
5. Protected Site: Sokolski Manastir
6. Protected Site: Stolishta
7. Protected Site: Studeniat Kladenets


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