Rila Monastery Nature Park Management Plan - part - usaid

February 2004 Appendix 31
Goals Indicators
criteria
plant and animal communities
rock habitats in the Park as well as a
- monitor their condition and results of the database are created and used.
measures;
• The Chamaecytisus monitoring
• Maintain the grass vegetation in the sub-Alpine possibilities are studied and specific
and Alpine grass communities (by means of
measures implemented.
suitable grazing and hay-making regimes and • The areas damaged by hydro-facility
standards) in a manner preserving the overall
construction or by other anthropogenic
biodiversity by monitoring the effect of the
intervention are rehabilitated and re-
maintenance measures;
cultivated.
• Implement a Chamaecytisus monitoring and
control program;
• Implement a program for rehabilitation and recultivation
of sub-Alpine and Alpine areas in the
Park damaged by hydro-facility construction or by
other anthropogenic intervention.
Preserve the natural condition, the biological potential
and diversity of lake, lake-side and riparian habitats and
other wetlands in the Park.
• Improve the technical condition of hydro technical
facilities in the Park to meet the requirements of the
environmental legislation (including ensuring
releases of the ecological water minimum);
• Implement measures preserving the river network
and other wetland sites preserving microhabitats and
species of significance for conservation:
- map out and mark the sites of significance for
conservation around water bodies;
- lay down and undertake specific measures to
preserve the most endangered elements of the
wetlands in the Park;
• The needs for repair and upgrading of the
hydro-technical facilities in the Park are
assessed and the technical measures
required for their improvement are
implemented.
• A system for hydrometric and hydrotechnical
monitoring of water in the Park
and a database are created and used.
• The areas of significance for conservation
around the water bodies are mapped and
specific measures for their protection are
laid down and implemented.
• The Management Plan and the effective
legislation on wetland, water-body and
water-body bank protection are enforced.
Rila Monastery Nature Park
Management Plan (Draft) – Appendices
2004 - 2013
Measurement and evaluation tools Participants
• Grazing management plan and
annual evaluation reports on the
results from its implementation.
• Annual monitoring and database
updating reports.
• On-going evaluation of
Chamaecytisus distribution in the
Park and evaluation of the effect
of its restriction measures. –
number of locations and area
occupied by it.
• Number of rehabilitated
damaged areas, total area –
annual report. Evaluation of the
efficiency of the measures.
• Number of established and
sanctioned violations of the
regimes and standards set out in
the Management plan.
• Annual plan and report on the
repair and upgrading of the hydrotechnical
facilities in the Park.
• Annual monitoring and database
updating reports.
• Maps of sites of significance for
conservation around water bodies.
Annual evaluation of the areas of
significance for conservation
around the water bodies and of the
trends.
• Report and number of scientific
publications on the studies of the
effect of water removal on the
ecosystems in the Park.
special interest groups,
the National Energy
Complex PLC
Nature Park
Directorate, MAF,
MOEW, Executive
Environment
Protection Agency,
RIEW, scientific
advisory council of the
Rila NP, the academic
and scientific
community, NGOs,
special interest groups,
the National Energy
Complex PLC
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