Rila Monastery Nature Park Management Plan - part - usaid

February 2004
Relic species in the Park’e territory number 110 in all (77 glacial and 33 Tertiary).
This means that no less than 7.86 percent of all plant species represented in the Park
are relics. Glacial relics constitute 5.51 percent of the Park’s higher flora.
Representative species are Soldanella pusilla, Primula minima, the dwarf pine (Pinus
mugo) a.o. Tertiary relics make up 2.35 percent of the higher flora. Particularly
widespread are the common juniper (Juniperus communis L.), spruce (Picea abies),
Macedonian pine (Pinus peuce), King Boris’s fir (Abies Borisii-regis) and the locally
endemic Rila oak (Quercus protoroburoides).
Of the species of higher plants identified in the territory of RMNP, 57 are protected
under the Biological Diversity Act. Eleven of these are listed in Appendix # 2
regarding plant and animal species, the conservation of which requires designated
protected areas. Fifty-seven species are included in Appendix # 3, regarding protected
wildlife species throughout the entire country. Listed in the Red Book of Bulgaria are
96 species encountered in RMNP: 9 endangered and 87 rare, together making up
12.84% of all wildlife species listed in that book.
European List (E/ECE/1249), 6 species; the Bern Convention, 6 species, and the
CITES List, 24 species. (Fig. 10).
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Higher plants conservation status
Fig. 10: Comparative distribution of higher plant species of conservation
significance in Rila National Park, Rila Monastery Nature Park and Central
Balkan National Park. Categories: Red book, Local endemics, BG endemics, Balkan
endemics, IUCN List
Significant concentrations of rare, endangered and other species have been identified
in the riverside communities of gray alder (Alnus incana), along the Rilets ridge and
in the Mramorets cirque amid communities of dwarf pine (Pinus mugo) and in
limestone terrains, as well as in the territory of Rila Monastery Forest Reserve. The
latter location is home to the largest known community of King Boris’s fir (Abies
alba subsp. borisii-regis), and also to the main community of Rila oak (Quercus
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