Fontanazzo Provincial Nature Reserve - permitted activities and prohibitions

Permitted activities

Limits and prohibitions

• The continuation of agricultural activity on the areas currently cultivated, using traditional methods or modern cultivation techniques compatible with the natural and landscape characteristics of the Provincial Nature Reserve (the introduction of crops foreign to the traditional context is subject to the binding opinion of the Provincial Service responsible for protected areas).
• Maintenance of tool shelters on agricultural land.
• Access to cultivated land, also with motor vehicles, by the owner, tenant or possessor.
• Practice of silviculture in accordance with the "project for the protection and enhancement of the Provincial Nature Reserve" or on the prescriptions of the Provincial Service responsible for protected areas.
• Circulation of motor vehicles for forest use activities.
• Maintenance work on plants or infrastructures on the basis of prescriptions issued by the Provincial Service responsible for protected areas.
• Fishing on the left orographic bank of the river Brenta.
• Grazing of cattle only in grassland areas.
• Activities may be regulated in detail by the Provincial Service responsible for protected areas, after consulting the Scientific Committee for Protected Areas.

• Modifying or altering in any way the elements that make up the Provincial Nature Reserve.
• Deposit waste or materials of any kind and to carry out excavations, changes of cultivation, land reclamation or draining works.
• Cultivate quarries and peat bogs.
• Placing, removing or damaging plants, or parts thereof, of any species, as well as collecting or damaging mushrooms or other undergrowth products.
• Hunting and fishing (except on the left bank of the Brenta) and introducing, removing or disturbing any animal species, as well as letting dogs or other domestic animals roam, even for herding.
• Erecting constructions or artefacts of any type or material, even if temporary.
• Draining or injecting water or sewage.
• Clearing forest, grassland and uncultivated land for agricultural purposes.
• Using pesticides of any kind (pesticides, herbicides, disinfectants, rodenticides, etc.) or poisoned baits for purposes outside the normal course of permitted activities.
• Mulching with materials of artificial origin.
• Crossing the area with new power lines, telephone lines and any other overhead or underground conduct.
• Leaving the paths and wandering around the Provincial Nature Reserve outside of them, except for owners, tenants or holders in other capacities of the land included in the Reserve.
• Entering the protected area with any kind of mechanical or animal means of transport.
• Low-altitude overflying and landing of aerial means of any kind.
• Bathing and the use of watercraft.
• Camping, lighting fires, spreading lights, sounds and disturbing noises
• Carrying out competitive or folkloristic activities in general (other organised events must be authorised in advance by the provincial service responsible for protected areas)
• Erecting any type of fence that may cause damage or impede the passage of wildlife
• Remove or damage the Provincial Nature Reserve identification and boundary signs.