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.  

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

5.1%  protected  out  of  37%  

Level  of  threat  by  territory  

Number  &  level  of  threat  by  taxonomic  groups  

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

ICP  tree  map  creator  

Preserva2on  of  endangered  Bulgarian  Plants  

New  Ex  Situ  Collec2on  of  Rare  and  Threatened  Medicinal  Plants  in  the  Pirin  Mts.  (Bulgaria),  

Ekoloji,  see  ref.  8  

Tourism  

 hDp://uneplive.unep.org/    

GDP  by  ac2vity:  Agriculture,  hun2ng,  forestry,  fishing  

 hDp://uneplive.unep.org/    

GDP  by  ac2vity:  construc2on  

 hDp://uneplive.unep.org/    

Threat  intensity,  Pirin  Na2onal  Park  

The  state  of  conserva2on  in  world  heritage  forests  

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