Ecchen Peat Bog Provincial Nature Reserve - permitted activities and prohibitions

Permitted activities

Limits and prohibitions

• Continued mowing of meadows (normal practice).
• Interventions foreseen by a specific interdisciplinary plan approved by the Provincial Service responsible for protected areas for the conservation and environmental recovery and management of the entire area.

• Modify or alter in any way the elements that make up the Provincial Nature Reserve.
• Deposit waste or materials of any kind and carry out excavations, changes of cultivation, land reclamation or land draining.
• Cultivate quarries and peat bogs.
• Introducing, removing or damaging flora and fungi (except for scientific and conservation reasons, with prior authorisation).
• Killing, injuring, capturing, disturbing, releasing or taking any animal species (except for specific reasons).
• Introduce waste water or water that may alter the characteristics of the Provincial Nature Reserve.
• Using pesticides, herbicides, mineral and organic fertilisers that may trigger off or alter the biocenotic characteristics of the water (desiccants, simazine, atrazine, heavily polluted fertilisers, captan and vinclozolin to be reduced, rodenticides removed except "chlorophacinone" are prohibited).
• Crossing the area with power lines and telephone lines.
• Flying over the Provincial Nature Reserve at low altitude with planes or helicopters.
• Making sounds, lights, disturbing noises
• Circulate with vehicles.
• Camping, lighting fires, letting dogs or other domestic animals roam.
• Entering the protected area outside the marked paths (except for owners, usufructuaries or persons carrying out scientific, surveillance and management activities).