Sternigo Marshes Provincial Nature Reserve - permitted activities and prohibitions

Permitted activities

Limits and prohibitions

Partial protection area

• Interventions necessary for conservation, bio-ecological rebalancing, cultural fruition and scientific research, by or on behalf of the provincial service responsible for protected areas.
• Continuation of agricultural activity on areas cultivated in 1993, in a traditional manner or with modern techniques compatible with the maintenance of naturalistic and landscape characteristics.
• Introduction of agricultural crops alien to the traditional context (e.g. intensive planting of minor crops and vegetables) subject to the binding opinion of the Provincial Department responsible for protected areas.
• Maintenance of tool shelters on agricultural land.
• Access to cultivated land, also with motor vehicles, by owners/tenants/possessors.
• Exercise of silviculture in accordance with the forest management plan or prescriptions of the provincial service responsible for protected areas.
• Circulation of motor vehicles for forest use activities.
• Free circulation of motor vehicles on the east-west section of the road and on the section connecting the mountain colony to the eastern shore of Lake Serraia.
• Maintenance work on facilities or infrastructures of public interest, after consulting the provincial service responsible for protected areas.
• Exercise of cross-country skiing, after consulting the provincial service responsible for protected areas.

• Modifying or altering the elements of the Provincial Nature Reserve.
• Depositing waste or materials, excavating, changing cultivation, reclaiming or draining the land.
• Cultivate quarries and peat bogs.
• Placing, removing or damaging plants, collecting or damaging mushrooms or other undergrowth products.
• Hunting and fishing, releasing, taking or disturbing animal species, letting dogs or other domestic animals roam.
• Erecting constructions or artefacts, including temporary ones.
• Water or sewage disposal.
• 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 electricity, telephone or other overhead/underground lines, with the exception of the laying of the pipeline and conduits for the municipal waterworks.
• Leave the paths and wander off them, except for owners/tenants/possessors.
• Enter by any mechanical or animal means of transport.
• Low-altitude overflying and landing of aircraft.
• Bathing and use of watercraft.
• Camping, lighting fires, causing disturbing lights, sounds and noises
• Carrying out competitive or folkloristic activities (other organised events require prior authorisation).
• Erecting fences that may cause damage or impede the passage of wildlife.
• Remove or damage signage.

Integral reserve area

• Interventions necessary for conservation, bio-ecological rebalancing, cultural enjoyment and scientific research, by or on behalf of the provincial service responsible for protected areas.
• Implementation of the urgent redevelopment project of the municipal aqueduct, including the laying of underground pipelines and conduits, in compliance with the prescriptions and timeframes defined in the impact assessment.

• Modify or alter the elements of the Provincial Nature Reserve.
• Depositing waste or materials, excavating, changing cultivation, reclaiming or draining land.
• Cultivate quarries and peat bogs.
• Placing, removing or damaging plants, collecting or damaging mushrooms or other undergrowth products.
• Hunting and fishing, releasing, taking or disturbing animal species, letting dogs or other domestic animals roam.
• Erecting constructions or artefacts, including temporary ones.
• Water or sewage disposal.
• 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 electricity, telephone or other overhead/underground lines, with the exception of the laying of the pipeline and conduits for the municipal waterworks.
• Leave the paths and wander off them, except for owners/tenants/possessors.
• Enter by any mechanical or animal means of transport.
• Low-altitude overflying and landing of aircraft.
• Bathing and use of watercraft.
• Camping, lighting fires, causing disturbing lights, sounds and noises
• Carrying out competitive or folkloristic activities (other organised events require prior authorisation).
• Erecting fences that may cause damage or impede the passage of wildlife.
• Removing or damaging signs.