Rila Monastery Nature Park Management Plan - part - usaid

February 2004
the Committee of Forests, with the Ministry of Environment and with the
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
6) fishing in the areas defined in the Management Plan.
Until completion of the Management Plan:
1) construction for the needs of administration, science and education, tourism
and animal breeding, shall be carried out following a written permission by
the Ministry of Environment agreed with the Committee of Forests and with
the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
2) forest management shall be brought into compliance with the Rules on
Special-Purpose Forest Management and shall be approved by the Committee
of Forests in agreement with the Ministry of Environment.
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Pursuant to articles 16 and 22 of the Nature Protection Act and to preserve in
unchanged state forest, sub-alpine and alpine ecosystems that form complexes that are
unique for the Central and Southern European mountains, and the central part of the
Rila floral speciation center and the habitats of scores of endangered rare plant and
animal species, I declare the Central Rila Reserve with total area of 12,393.7 ha as
follows:
1. From the Borovets State Forestry Enterprise, Samokov Municipality,
according to the 1986 forest development project, sections: 214 through 217; 239 – б,
1, 2, 3; 391; 392; 403; 404; 413; 414; 423; 435 through 443; 444 – а, б, 2, 3 (part 25.0
ha), 4, with total area of 2,389.9 ha.
2. High-mountain pasture between sections 217 and 239 of the Borovets
Forestry Enterprise with total area of 47.0 ha.
3. From the Samokov State Forestry Enterprise, Samokov Municipality,
according to the 1982 forest development project, sections: 675 – except а, б, 1, 2, 3;
676 – except а, 1, 2, 3, 4; 677 – except а, б, в, г, и, к, л, м, 1 through 7; 840 – except
а, 1; 841 – except а, б, л, м, н, о, 1, 2 (part 1.0 ha), 3, 9; 842 – except а, б, 1, 2, 3
(part 0.2 ha); 843 – except а, 1, 2; 844 – except а, 1, 2; 845 – except а, б, в, 1, 2, 3;
846 – except а, б, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; 847 – except а, б, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; 848 – except а, б, 1
through 7; 849 – except а, б, в, г, д, 1 through 7; 850 – except а, б, в, 1, 2, 10; 852 –
except ж, 16; 857 – з, и к, л, м 7 through 15; 858 – ж, з, и, к, 4, 5, 6; 859 through
906; 907 – except а, 1 through 5, 908, with total area of 9,956.8 ha.
All activities disturbing the unique nature of the Reserve shall be prohibited.
Tourists can pass through the Reserve only along the tourist trail along the
Maritsa River.
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Pursuant to articles16 and 22 of the Nature Protection Act, I expand the
territories of the following reserves in the Rila Nature Park:
І. Ibar Reserve, Kostenets Municipality, Sofia District – from 1,701.0 ha to
2,248.6 ha.
Rila Monastery Nature Park
Management Plan (Draft) – Appendices
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