Area
253,700 m2
Manager
Sokolac Town Hall
Location
Sokolac
Protected since 2015
Category
Nature monument- III
Specifics
Girska Cave is located on the northeast slopes of Mt. Ozren. It is a hydrologically active cave of a source type with a wide main tunnel and three side tunnels of a combined length of 1,300 meters. Its main value are rich decorations that have been conserved. The tunnel also has flowstones, cave corals, stalactites and curtains. Side tunnels are also richly decorated and in some places the decorations are blocking the tunnels.
Current State
The paved and dirt road intertwine until the cave where there’s no sign board to denote a protected area.
Allowed
Agricultural production in individual households, site rehabilitation after decommissioning, raising native deciduous species along with the preservation of native vegetation, construction of new facilities and conducting work with the aim to conserve and protect natural heritage, road maintenance, keeping the existing road infrastructure and possibly paving only those roads that might lead to a planned parking lot that could connect the settlement and the current special purpose location in accordance with a planning ordinance or some other official document, street lighting in urban areas which can have exclusively landscape character.
Prohibited
Industrial extraction of mineral and non-mineral raw materials primary processing and pre-concentration of raw materials depositing of primary gangue and secondary tailings, as well as communal, industrial and other rubbish or the leftover soil from excavation; the construction of industrial, hydrotechnical, infrastructural and other facilities which might degrade the quality of the soil, waters, air, plant and living species environment, and the landscape’s beauty, cultural heritage and its surroundings; to change the area’s land use designation, except for changes specified in the Manager’s program documents, the construction of agricultural homesteads’ facilities outside existing construction plots, to collect fossil samples from geological profiles, destruction of forest complexes or divvying them up, ploughing of natural fields and pastures, planting, it is further prohibited to intentionally transplant or plant wild plants that are not native to the area’s wildlife, except in the case of erosion or landslide prevention; collecting, use and destruction of all types of wild plants and animal species.
Related documents
ZAKON O ZAŠTITI PRIRODE REPUBLIKE SRPSKE
ODLUKA O ZAŠTITI SPOMENIKA PRIRODE GIRSKA PEĆINA
