Balgarka   (Unique identification code in the register: 10)

Category: Natural Park

Map:
Map of the object
Digital boundaries - WGS 84, UTM 35N (shp)	Digital boundaries are in the process of updating

Area: 21772.16 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

Falls in the territory of the following Regional Forestry Directorates (RFD):
RFD Veliko Tarnovo: SFE Plachkovtsi

Ordinance for announcement:
Ordinance No.РД-775 from 09.08.2002 775-2002

Ordinance for change:

Management plan for protected area (link):

Aims of the declaration:
1. Protection restoration and maintenance of oak ecosystems and landscapes in Tryavna, Gabrovo and the share of Central Stara Planina.

Current prohibitions and regimes:
1. It is prohibited to clear felling in high forest, except poplar and in coppice forests - an area larger than three hectares;
2. It is prohibited to import plant and animal species uncharacteristic of the region;
3. It is prohibited to graze goats except in designated places;
4. It is prohibited to collect fossils and minerals, to damage the rock formations;
5. It is prohibited to pollute the waters and terrains with domestic, industrial, and other waste;
6. It is prohibited to camp and start fires outside the designated areas;
7. It is prohibited to extract minerals using the open method;
8. It is prohibited to extract and to pretreat metal minerals by applying the chemical and chemical-bacteriological methods and cyanids;
9. It is prohibited to carry out all activities and construction, which are not allowed by the park orders and regultaions, the park management plan, and the management and technical plans and projects;
10. It is prohibited to collect rare, endemic, relict, and protected species, except for scientific purposes;

Overlapping (partial or full):
1. Natural Monument: Skalen Venets-Mestnost Mahnatite Skali
2. Natural Monument: Vikanata Skala
3. Protected Site: Mehchenitsa - Yovovtsi
4. Protected Site: Stolishta
5. Protected Site: Studeniat Kladenets
6. PZ under both Directives: Bulgarka

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Last update of the web application: 01.08.2011
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