Provincial nature reserves

Provincial Nature Reserves are areas of provincial importance, specifically intended for the conservation of one or more relevant species of flora and fauna, or of one or more ecosystems important for biological diversity and for the maintenance of genetic resources.

For detailed information on the Provincial Nature Reserves present in the territory, go to thePROVINCIAL PROTECTED AREAS ARCHIVE: for each area a dedicated sheet is published.

The Provincial Nature Reserves are also included in the lists of protected areas of the European Natura 2000 network and are therefore now doubly protected, by provincial law and Community law.

In Trentino, the provincial Nature Reserves in many geographical areas are part of the Networks of Reserves. Their management is delegated to the municipality, which must ensure compliance with the safeguard regulations.

The 1986 institutive law provides for general restrictions for all provincial Reserves, which consist in the prohibition to

• modifying or altering in any way the elements that make up the biotope
• depositing waste or materials of any kind
• to carry out excavations, changes of cultivation, land reclamation or draining works
• cultivating quarries and peat bogs, and the legal revocation of any authorisations granted for this purpose.

In addition to these general restrictions, each provincial reserve is subject - in relation to its peculiar characteristics - to specific protection restrictions that are defined in the establishing resolutions (and possibly in amending ones).

In some cases, the area of a provincial reserve is divided into two areas with different protection intensity. Theintegral protection area coincides with the most delicate and important part where human activities must be reduced to a minimum; thebuffer area, usually peripheral, constitutes a protection strip where constraints are less strict.

The establishment of a provincial reserve is always followed by active management and renaturalisation activities. In addition, ordinary management activities such as tabulation (boundary boards and information panels), surveillance and cleaning are implemented.

Active Management and Renaturalisation of Provincial Nature Reserves

The establishment of a provincial nature reserve is always followed by active management and renaturalisation activities, carried out through interventions of a very different nature.

Non-established biotopes

Some areas, although formally identified by the 1987 Provincial Urban Plan (in regulations and in cartography), were not then formally established by resolution of the Provincial Council. For these non-established biotopes , the generic safeguard measures envisaged by Article 46 paragraph 2 of Provincial Law 11/2007 apply.

Biotopes not established

These are protected areas of provincial importance formally identified by the 1987 Provincial Urban Plan (in regulations and cartography) but not officially...

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