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per cent of the area. However, the aboveproportions may change in the near future,in case the land use and management rightsconcerning currently state-owned forests arepassed to local communities.Most probably the management of thisplanned protected area would be the responsibilityof Dibra Prefecture and RegionalForestry Service Directorate. The authoritiesof the Kukës prefecture and Kukës Directorateof Forestry Service are also supportiveto the plans of designating the Korabi ProtectedLandscape area, and would mostprobably be responsible for the managementof its northernmost part, located inKukës prefecture.As the planned “Korabi Protected Landscape”area (31’360.54 ha) will be adjacentto the existing Mavrovo National Park (73'088ha) in the FYR of Macedonia, its legal designationby Albania would provide for establishmentof a bilaterally protected transboundaryarea covering together over 104'448 ha.Kosovo - UN administered territoryunder UN Security Council resolution1244/99 - planned extension of MaliSharr / Sharr Mountains National ParkThe proposals for the spatial extension ofthe territory of Sharr Mountains (Šar Planina)National Park date back to the times ofthe former the Socialist Federative Republicof Yugoslavia (SFRJ). The former SFRJadministration proposed expanding the nationalpark by 80’000 ha into the mountainsto the south .Later, based on the protocol on cooperationsigned in 1995 - a joint proposal by theInstitute for Nature Conservation of Serbiaand the Macedonian scientists planned theextension of Šar Planina / Sharr NationalPark by additional 60’000 hectares, with theobjective to reach the desired size of 99’000ha in total, thus almost three times the actualsize (39’000 ha).According to the Institute for Nature Conservationof Serbia - the park area wasplanned to be signifi cantly extended to thenorth and southwest, and stretch in the Dragash/Dragašmunicipality along the borderMaps 13 and 14: Comparison – relevant section of the map by the Institute for Nature Conservation ofSerbia showing the previously planned extension of Šar Planina / Sharr National Park, and the enlargedsituation map of Mali Sharr / Sharr Mountains National Park.PART 2. NATURE AND ITS PROTECTION IN THE AREA 83