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Area
Unknown
Manager
Kalinovik Town Hall, Kalinovik Forest Management Company
Location
Kalinovik
Protected since 2018
Category
Nature monument- III
Specifics
Kuk Cave is located in the canyon of the Bistrica river between Kalinovik and Foča. It consists of several tunnels that spread over two levels of the combined length of 688 meters. It boasts of various cave decorations: stalactites, stalagmites, flowstones, cave columns. It represents an important paleolithic site where the remains of a cave bear’s bones were found and dated to between 36,000 and 40,000 years. These are the oldest remains of cave bears in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Current State
The Cave is open for tourist visits upon Kalinovik tourism officials who have a key to the gates have been informed.
Allowed
Scientific research, agricultural production in individual households, 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 the natural heritage, keeping the current traffic routes with a possibility of paving routes to lead to a planned parking lot, street lighting in urban areas which can have exclusively landscape character.
Prohibited
Commercial exploitation of mineral and non-mineral raw materials, primary processing and reconcentration of raw materials except in cases of strategic interest that call for redefining environmental protection concerns , 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 PROGLAŠENJU SPOMENIKA PRIRODE PEĆINA KUK
