Reka Mochuritsa   (Unique identification code in the register: BG0000196)

Category: PZ under the Habitat Directive

Map:
Map of the object

Area: 8702.83 hectares

Location:
1. District: Burgas, Municipality: Karnobat, Locality: Devetak, Devetintsi, Glumche, Iskra, Karnobat, Klikach, Krumovo gradishte, Madrino, Nevestino, Ognen, Sigmen, Tserkovski, Venets, Zimen
2. District: Burgas, Municipality: Sungurlare, Locality: Chubra, Gorovo, Slavyantsi, Sungurlare, Valchin
3. District: Sliven, Municipality: Kotel, Locality: Mokren, Padarevo
4. District: Yambol, Municipality: Straldzha, Locality: Charda, Dzhinot, Malenovo, Palauzovo, Straldzha, Vodenichane, Zimnitsa
5. District: Yambol, Municipality: Tundzha, Locality: Mogila, Veselinovo
6. District: Yambol, Municipality: Yambol, Locality: Yambol

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. Stara Zagora - bul."Stara planina" № 2

Ordinance for announcement:
Ordinance No.РД-316 from 31.03.2021 2-2-196-316-2021

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 Continental biogeographical region;
2. Improving the structure and functions of natural habitats with codes 6210 (* important orchid habitats), 6220*, 91AA* and 91M0;
3. Improving the state of the habitats of species Triturus karelinii, Testudo hermanni and Testudo graeca;
4. 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 1 from Biological Diversity Act: 1340 * Inland salt meadows; 1530 * Pannonic salt steppes and salt marshes; 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; 6430 Hydrophilous tall herb fringe communities of plains and of the montane to alpine levels;; 6510 Lowland hay meadows; 8220 Siliceous rocky slopes with chasmophytic vegetation; 8230 Siliceous rock with pioneer vegetation of the Sedo-Scleranthion or Sedo albi-Veronicion dillenii; 91AA * Eastern white oak woods; 91E0 * Alluvial forests withAlnus glutinosa and Fraxinus excelsior (Alno-Pandion, Alnion incanae, Salicion albae); 91M0 Pannonian-Balkanic turkey oak-sessile oak forests; 92A0 Salix alba and Populus alba galleries;
2. Article 6, paragraph 1, section 2 from Biological Diversity Act: Mammals - Canis lupus, Spermophilus citellus, Vormela peregusna, Lutra lutra; Amphibians and reptiles - Bombina bombina, Bombina variegata, Triturus karelinii, Elaphe sauromates, Emys orbicularis, Testudo hermanni, Testudo graeca; Fish - Cobitis taenia, Rhodeus amarus, Barbus cyclolepis; Intervertebrates - Ceram- byx cerdo, Morimus funereus, Lucanus cervus, Lycaena dispar, Coenagrion ornatum, Paracaloptenus caloptenoides, 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 change the way of permanent use, plowing, afforestation and conversion into permanent plantations of meadows, pastures and grassland, when using agricultural lands as such;
5. 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;
6. 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;
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 drainage of coastal floodplains of rivers and other natural water bodies , changes in the hydromorphological regime through drainage, removal of sediments, correction, barricading of rivers, except in cases in urban areas and in cases of flood danger, which may lead to a risk to human life and health or the occurrence of material damage, in case of disasters and accidents and to improve the condition of the natural habitats and the habitats of the species under item 2.
13. 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;
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.

Overlapping (partial or full):
PZ under the Bird Directive: Kompleks Straldzha

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Last update of the web application: 01.08.2011
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