Rila Monastery Nature Park Management Plan - part - usaid

February 2004
1.1.2. Pursuant to PAA Art. 21, item 16, and by virtue of the present Management
Plan, the following additional activities are prohibited for the territory of Rila
Monastery Nature Park:
1. The cutting down of a tree or group of trees in radius of 50m around fountains,
chapels and other holy sites except if they threaten the object;
2. The transportation of non-timber products extracted from the territory of Rila
Monastery NP (wild-growing fruits, medicinal plants or mushrooms) without
permission, with the exception of quantities gathered for personal needs;
3. The gathering, removal or transportation of any other products of organic or
inorganic origin, except in the course of maintenance or restoration activities as
provided for in the Management Plan, zone and site development plans and
technical plans and projects;
4. The movement and parking of road motor vehicles outside the designated and
specially marked places roads and parking facilities;
5. Any disturbance (including aerially), killing, catching, chasing or hurting of wild
animals;
6. Any gathering, removal, moving, transportation of animals, whether live, found
wounded, or killed, or of recognizable parts thereof, or of eggs or other life forms;
7. The destruction or moving of lairs and anthills, except for purposes of
maintenance or restoration of populations of animal species;
8. The regulation of animal populations number except in cases where:
8.1 they threaten the health and vitality of their own population;
8.2 in the assisted restoration of the populations of Balkan chamois, red deer,
roe, grouse, mountain quail, Balkan trout and other species, as deemed necessary;
8.3 in cases of epizooty;
8.4 in cases where damages are inflicted to domestic animals or threats posed
to visitors;
8.5. in the elimination of stray dogs or cats, or cross-breeds between wild and
domestic animals;
9. The entry, access and movement of persons carrying whole or disassembled rifles,
shot-guns or other long-barreled firearms, bows or cross-bows in the territory of
Rila Monastery NP, as well as transportation of the kinds of weapons listed above,
except park guards, the Ministry of the Interior or the Ministry of Defense in the
discharge of their duties;
10. The use of boats or any other sailing vessels in the lakes, except for purposes of
scientific research, monitoring or in maintenance and restoration activities;
11. Practicing of winter sports, which require building up ski tracks;
12. Any surface damages to the terrain, except in performing maintenance or
reconstruction activities or in fulfillment of plans and schemes approved well in
advance as part of, or prescribed by, the Management Plan;
13. The carrying and/or use in the Park of:
13.1 explosives, except for purposes as prescribed by Management Plan or in
fulfillment of plans and schemes approved pursuant to it;
13. 2 metal detectors;
14. Grazing of animals outside designated locations, or in violation of the locations,
types and number of branded domestic animals stated in an issued permit
(Appendix 29);
15. Night-time grazing or grazing of herds without a herdsman;
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