EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - UNESCO World Heritage

4.a.5 Rožok (Slovak Republic)
Since the site is currently designated as a National Nature Reserve, and it is a part of the
Poloniny National Park, a system of protection measures is defined for it in the National
Council of the Slovak Republic Act No. 543/2002 Coll. on Nature and Landscape Protection.
4.a.6 Stužica – Bukovské Vrchy (Slovak Republic)
The property extends within the designated A-zone of the Poloniny National Park and
encompasses several national nature preserves. According to the Act No. 543/2002 Coll. on
Nature and Landscape Protection, the area is subject to Ia conservation management regime.
4.a.7 Stuzhytsia-Uzhok (Ukraine)
The official status of the National Nature Park of the Stuzhytsa-Uzhok virgin forests
being also a part of the International Trilateral Biosphere Reserve “Eastern Carpathians”
provides its reliable conservation and protection.
4.a.8 Svydovets (Ukraine)
At present time the Svidovets cluster is a part of the Carpathian Biosphere Reserve
(CBR), and its modern status is the base for arrangement of the conservation and protection
of all objects on its territory. Like in the “Ugolka-Shyrokyi Luh” and “Chornohora” clusters,
both conservation and protection here are regulated by the Ukrainian Legislation and by a
number of the corresponding decrees, as well by the Regulations for the CBR. The state of
conservation of the virgin forests within this massif is of a high quality because of the
measures realized here since 1920s.
4.a.9 Uholka-Shyrokyi Luh (Ukraine)
At present time the “Uholka-Shyrokyi Luh” cluster is a part of the Carpathian Biosphere
Reserve (CBR), and its modern status is the base for arrangement of the conservation and
protection of all objects on its territory because all of them are regulated by the Ukrainian
Legislation and by a number of decrees concerning protection and conservation of all the sites
belonging to the Protected Areas Network of Ukraine, as well by the Regulations for the
Carpathian Biosphere Reserve and the Management Plan and Action Plan arranged for a
period of 10 years. Therefore, the beech virgin forests together with their complexes of living
organisms are the main objects of the nature protection here. We have to note that the state of
conservation of the virgin forests in this massif is of the highest quality due to the the very
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