By Slobodan Puzovic

 Here is to follow a list of important bird species especially significant for specific localities on Stara Planina. According to the contributed  map of the ski centre, quite all localities are more or less in danger of devastation. This means that the local populations of these species will be under under strong negative pressure (many of them probably with a fall in numbers and the narrowing of the local areal of over 50%). Will some of them completely die out from Stara Planina, depends on a number of factors, primarily on the intensity and frequency of the negative effects. Among all of the shown species below, as specially senstitive to the construction of the ski-centre, the following may be separated: T.urogallus (already disappeared?), E.a.balcanica, A.campestris, P.modularis, Ciconia nigra, Aq. chrysaetos, F.peregrinus, F.cherrug, P.gracullus (already disappeared), A. graeca,  E.morinellus,  S.rusticola, etc.

• According to my preliminary evaluation and more detailed analysis of ski track distribution, certainly the most dangerous ski lifts and tracks are those which go along both sides of Bratkova Strana and from Kopren, these to be stopped at all cost, even if to sacrifice the terrain from the ridge of Žarkova Čuka to Golema Reka (river), as well as the terrain from the saddle of Sunčana Dolina (Sunny Valley) to Topli Dol (Warm Valley). Also, very dangerous are tracks around Srebrna Glava (Silver Head) and Dobro Jutro (Good Morning) at the extereme South-East. Least problems in this part would be from tracks from the Tupanac ridge towards the waterflow of the Jelovička Reka (river) and in the direction of Rosomača.