Lake Costa Provincial Nature Reserve - permitted activities and prohibitions

Permitted activities

Limits and prohibitions

• Continuation of agricultural activity on the areas cultivated on the date of the resolution, with traditional or modern compatible methods. The introduction of new intensive crops or vegetables requires the prior and binding opinion of the provincial service responsible for protected areas.
• Renovation of tool sheds on agricultural land.
• Access to cultivated land (also with motor vehicles) by the owner, tenant or possessor.
• Exercise of silviculture according to forest management plans or specific prescriptions of the provincial service responsible for protected areas.
• Circulation of motor vehicles for forest use activities.
• Maintenance interventions of plants or infrastructures of public interest.
• Interventions necessary for conservation, bio-ecological rebalancing, cultural fruition and scientific research, carried out by the Provincial Service responsible for protected areas.

• Modify or alter the elements of the Provincial Nature Reserve
• Depositing waste, excavating, changing cultivation, reclaiming or draining the land
• Cultivate quarries and peat bogs
• Placing, removing or damaging plants/parts of them, and collecting mushrooms or other undergrowth products
• Hunting and fishing, releasing, taking or disturbing animal species; letting dogs or other domestic animals roam (including for herding)
• Erecting constructions or artefacts, including temporary ones (except for SP 66).
• Emitting or injecting water or sewage slurry.
• Clearing forest, grassland and uncultivated areas for agricultural purposes.
• Using pesticides or poisoned bait for purposes unrelated to permitted activities.
• Use mulching with artificial materials.
• Crossing the area with new power lines, telephone lines or pipelines (overhead or underground), except for justified and authorised exceptions.
• Leaving the paths and wandering around the Provincial Nature Reserve outside them (except for owners and workers); entering with any mechanical or animal means of transport.
• Overflying at low altitude and landing aircraft.
• Camping, lighting fires, causing disturbing lights, sounds and noises, carrying out competitive or folkloric activities (other organised events require authorisation).
• Bathing and the use of watercraft.
• Building any type of fence.
• Removing or damaging Provincial Nature Reserve signs.