How to effectively preserve plant life in the Pirin Mountains, Bulgaria?

1. How
to
preserve
plant
life
effec2vely
in
the
Pirin
Mountains,
Bulgaria
?
• Contain
and
restrain
the
development
of
large
touris2c
areas
such
as
ski
resorts
which
are
the
baseline
to
the
na2onal
park
and
protected
zones.
Construc2on
work
for
rental
homes,
increase
in
pist
areas
and
liCs
all
contribute
to
the
disrup2on
of
the
plant
life.

2. hDp://whc.unesco.org/en/list/225/indicators/

3. 5.1%
protected
out
of
37%

4. Level
of
threat
by
territory

5. Number
&
level
of
threat
by
taxonomic
groups

6.
Dataset
2015
–
levels
of
defolia2on
in
deciduous
trees
hDps://opendata.government.bg/dataset/ropckn-­‐ekocnctemn/resource/56b92550-­‐a697-­‐45a4-­‐b94f-­‐741c53bb74f5

7. ICP
tree
map
creator

8. Preserva2on
of
endangered
Bulgarian
Plants
New
Ex
Situ
Collec2on
of
Rare
and
Threatened
Medicinal
Plants
in
the
Pirin
Mts.
(Bulgaria),
Ekoloji,
see
ref.
8

9. Tourism
hDp://uneplive.unep.org/

10. GDP
by
ac2vity:
Agriculture,
hun2ng,
forestry,
fishing
hDp://uneplive.unep.org/

11. GDP
by
ac2vity:
construc2on
hDp://uneplive.unep.org/

12. Threat
intensity,
Pirin
Na2onal
Park
The
state
of
conserva2on
in
world
heritage
forests

13. References
• Red
data
book
of
the
Republic
of
Bulgaria
hDp://e-­‐ecodb.bas.bg/rdb/en/
• ICP
Forest
hDp://icp-­‐forests.net/page/create-­‐map
• UN
Environment
Program
hDp://uneplive.unep.org/
• World
Bank
data
hDp://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PC/countries/EU-­‐BG?display=graph
• Plant
preserva2on
study
hDp://ekoloji.com.tr/resimler/72-­‐5.pdf