Rila Monastery Nature Park Management Plan - part - usaid

February 2004
Long-term goal 4.2.3 To conserve the natural state and biological potential
of sub-alpine and alpine communities and rocky habitats.
Operational objectives:
• To map, and to undertake concrete measures for preserving the natural state of
rock faces, complexes and outcroppings:
- To describe locations of rare, endangered, biome-restricted, endemic, relict,
sensitive or vulnerable species bound to rock formations;
- To discontinue activities that may lead to degradation of, or damage to, rock
faces, complexes and/or communities of plant and animal species;
- To carry out monitoring of their state and to record the effect of measures
undertaken to improve it.
• To maintain the herbaceous vegetation in sub-alpine and alpine grassy
communities (by introducing suitable regimes of grazing and hay-making) in such
a way as to preserve the entire herbaceous biodiversity, while simultaneously
monitoring the impact of maintenance measures;
• To apply a monitoring and control program regarding the zanovets
(Chamaecytisus absinthioides (Janka) Kuzm.);
• To implement a program for rehabilitation and reclamation of terrains damaged or
degraded as a result of hydro technical construction or other anthropogenic
interventions in the sub-alpine and alpine Park zone.
Long-term goal 4.2.4 To conserve the natural state, biological potential and
diversity of lake, lake- and riverside habitats and other wetlands within the Park.
Operational objectives:
• To improve the technical condition of hydro technical facilities within the Park
and bring it up to the requirements of the applicable environmental legislation
(incl. by ensuring the discharge of an ecologically sound water outflow);
• To implement measures for the conservation of locations along the river network
and in other wetland areas where habitats and species of conservation significance
are preserved:
- To map and mark locations of conservation significance around water basins;
- To plan and undertake concrete measures for protecting the most endangered
wetland components in the Park;
• To implement a program for hydrometric and hydro chemical monitoring of
waters in the Park;
• To assess the impact of human interference with rivers, lakes, and other aquatic
sites within the Park and to institute measures for improving the state and
condition of wetlands and related ecosystems:
- To study and assess the impact of water extraction and diversion on ecosystems
and river sections downstream of the catchments facility;
- To study the processes of lake eutrophication and sedimentation;
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Management Plan - Draft
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