site.btaManagement Plan for Central Balkan National Park Approved Provisionally

Management Plan for Central Balkan National Park Approved Provisionally

Sofia, October 19 (BTA) - The Supreme Environmental Experts'
Council with the Ministry of Environment and Water approved a
new 10-year plan for the management of the Central Balkan
National Park, the Ministry reported on Monday. The Council
proposed to Environment and Water Minister Ivelina Vassileva to
submit the plan to the Council of Ministers for further
approval.

The development of the plan was funded by the EU-supported
Operational Programme "Environment 2007-2013."

The Ministry also said that a future sensor system will provide
information about the number of bats in the Bisserna Cave in the
 Shoumen Plateau Nature Park. The system is part of a 4.9
million leva project to rehabilitate the Bisserna Cave, which is
 being implemented by the Directorate of the Shoumen Plateau
Nature Park on funding from Operational Programme "Environment
2007-2013."

The cave, inhabited by 19 bat species, is home to one of the
largest populations of this animal in Northeastern Bulgaria.
Sadly, a large colony of common bent-wing bats was destroyed as
a result of the operation of an underground water catchment.