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Rules of Behaviour in a Protected Landscape Area

The current Act No. 114/92 Coll., On the Protection of Nature and Landscape, as amended by Act No. 460 /2004 Coll. does not provide for the publication of the Rules for Visitors of the Protected Landscape Area (CHKO) as a generally binding regulation for the visitors of this area even though it states some limitations in § 26.

For information, here are extracts from the aforementioned act concerning the visitors of the Protected Landscape Area:

The following activities are not allowed in the whole territory of CHKO:

  • Driving and parking motor vehicles outside roads, local roads and designated areas. It is forbidden to use the forest roads.
  • Camping, making and keeping fires outside the designated places.
  • Keep peace and quiet in the forests!
  • Storing and disposing of wastes outside the designated places.

In the territory of Zone I and II, it is not allowed to:

  • irreversibly damage the soil surface (concerns mainly bikers riding outside the designated trails).
  • organize competitions on bikes outside the roads, local roads and places designated by the Administration of CHKO.

In the national natural preserves, it is not allowed to:

  • enter and drive outside the designated routes, perform mountaineering, paragliding and hang-gliding.
  • ride bikes outside the roads, local roads and places designated by the Administration of CHKO.
  • enter with motor vehicles.
  • collect or catch any plants and animals.

In natural preserves, it is not allowed to:

  • collect or catch any plants and animals except forest fruit.

With regard to specially protected plant species, it is not allowed to:

  • collect, pick, dig out, damage, destroy or otherwise disturb their development, including all their under and above ground parts and all their development phases and their biotope.

With regard to specially protected animals, it is not allowed to:

  • catch, keep captive, disturb, injure or kill, pick, destroy or move their development phases or their habitat.

A more detailed extract on the rules of behaviour in nature according to the legislation

For better orientation in the rules and limitations to behaviour in nature, we have prepared a short extract of the Act on Forests (289/1995 Coll.) and the Act on the Protection of Nature and Landscape (114/1992 Coll.). However, only the points concerning hikers or bikers are mentioned here. Due to the topical orientation of the pages, we have prepared a list of rules mainly concerning the protection of plants.

The following are not exact and complete quotations of the acts.

  1. General Protection of Plants

    All plants are protected from damage, destruction, collection that leads or could lead to jeopardy to their existence or to their degeneration, upsetting their reproductive abilities, extinction of their population or their ecosystem (§5 114/1992 Coll.).

  2. Protection of Specially Protected Plants

    Specially protected plants are protected in all their underground and above ground parts and all development phases; their biotope is also protected. It is forbidden to collect, pick, dig out, damage, destroy or otherwise disturb their development (§49 114/1992 Coll.).

    The rules of behaviour in specially protected areas (national park, protected landscape area, national natural preserve, natural preserve, national natural monument, natural monument, natural park) are set by the Act on the Protection of Landscape and Nature, by acts, decrees and government regulations establishing actual protected areas and by the working regulations of these protected areas. We only present some items mentioned directly in the Act on the Protection of Natura and Landscape, therefore it is recommended to read the visitor’s rules of each protected area you are planning to visit.

  3. National Park

    National parks usually have three zones of protection. The first zone has the strictest regime (§17 114/1992 Coll.).

    In the whole area of the national park, it is forbidden to:

    • Camp and make fire outside the places designated by the nature protection authority. Ride bikes outside the roads, local roads and places designated with the approval of the nature protection authority.
    • Collect plants except forest fruit, unless determined otherwise in more precise terms of protection or the visitor’s rules of the national park.
    • Alter the preserved natural environment in conflict with the terms of the protection of the national park.

    In the territory of the first NP zone, it is forbidden to:

    • Enter areas outside the trails marked with the consent of the nature protection authority (§16 114/1992 Coll.).

  4. Protected Landscape Area

    In the whole territory of the protected landscape area, it is forbidden to:

    • Camp and make fire outside the places designated with the consent of the nature protection authority.
    • Enter and park motor vehicles outside the roads and local roads and places designated with the consent of the nature protection authority.
    • Alter the preserved natural environment in conflict with the terms of the protection of the protected landscape area (§26 114/1992 Coll.).

  5. National Natural Preserve

    In the whole territory of the national natural preserve, it is forbidden to:

    • Enter and drive outside the roads designated with the consent of the nature protection authority.
    • Ride bikes outside the roads, local roads and places designated by the nature protection authority.
    • Enter with motor vehicles.
    • Collect plants.
    • Camp and make fire outside the places designated with the consent of the nature protection authority.
    • Alter the preserved natural environment in conflict with the terms of the protection of national natural preserve (§29 114/1992 Coll.).

  6. Natural Preserve

    In the whole territory of the natural preserve, it is forbidden to:

    • Collect plants.
    • Alter the preserved natural environment in conflict with the terms of the protection of natural preserve (§34 114/1992 Coll.).

  7. National Natural Monument

    It is forbidden to damage it (§35 114/1992 Coll.).

  8. Natural Monument

    It is forbidden to damage it (§36 114/1992 Coll.).

  9. Natural Park

    A natural park is founded by a generally binding legal regulation of the nature protection authority which can determine limitations valid for its territory (§12 114/1992 Coll.).

  10. Limitations of some activities in forests (§20 289/1995 Coll.)

    In forests, it is forbidden to:

    • Disturb the peace and quiet.
    • Pick up seedlings and young plants of trees and bushes.
    • Collect seeds of forest tree species, mistletoe and Loranthus.
    • Collect forest fruit in a way that damages the forest.
    • Drive and park motor vehicles.
    • Enter enclosed areas or areas marked with no entry signs.
    • Enter the vegetation where extraction, manipulation or transportation of wood takes place.
    • Ride bikes outside forest paths and designated trails.
    • Smoke, make or maintain open fire and camp outside designated areas.
    • Discard burning or smoking objects.
    • Pollute the forest with waste and rubbish.
    • Making or maintaining open fire within the distance of 50 m from the edge of the forest is also forbidden.