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Rila Monastery Nature Park Management Plan - part - usaid

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February 2004<br />

Non-timber natural resources: medicinal plants and wild fruits<br />

A survey and assessment of the available resources of some basic types of medicinal<br />

plants and forest fruits in the territory of <strong>Rila</strong> <strong>Monastery</strong> <strong>Nature</strong> <strong>Park</strong> was conducted<br />

in 2001 for the needs of the development of a <strong>Management</strong> <strong>Plan</strong> for the territory. The<br />

potential value of these resources over a one-year period was then estimated on the<br />

basis of the maximum allowable extraction quantities and the market prices of such<br />

resources for 2001 (Table 33).<br />

The findings of the socioeconomic survey carried out in 2001 of the available<br />

quantities and approximate value of natural resources extracted from RMNP by the<br />

local population show that the residents of the nearby communities use an annual<br />

total of 20,000 BGN’s worth of non-timber natural resources harvested from the <strong>Park</strong><br />

territory.<br />

During the preparation and development of the <strong>Management</strong> <strong>Plan</strong>, it proved<br />

impossible to make even an approximate estimation of the financial value of the<br />

available resources of mushrooms and fish in the territory of RMNP, since there are<br />

no estimates of the actual quantities of their stocks. While fishing is envisioned as an<br />

allowed practice in the future pursuant to the <strong>Management</strong> <strong>Plan</strong>, at present the fish<br />

stocks in RMNP are subjected to overuse, poaching, as well as to pressure from<br />

populations of non-local (introduced) fish species such as, for instance, the rainbow<br />

trout. The <strong>Management</strong> <strong>Plan</strong> envisions measures to find solutions to these problems<br />

which, if implemented, my help rake in considerable revenue for the <strong>Park</strong> from<br />

amateur fishing, especially of trout.<br />

<strong>Rila</strong> monastery <strong>Nature</strong> <strong>Park</strong><br />

Manaegment<strong>Plan</strong> - Draft<br />

2004 - 2013<br />

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