The spring wildflowers on the Shumen Plateau are prohibited for picking and sale and are classified as protected. This is regulated by the Environmental Protection Act, the Biodiversity Act, the Medicinal Plants Act, and the Protected Areas Act.
The bans apply to wild protected and endangered species. and those under restricted use regime such as snowdrops and snowdrops, crocuses and spring cyclamen, as well as hellebores, bluebells, forest pansies, primroses, peonies, cuckoo grapes, prickly heather and lingonberry. The collection of bulbs, clumps and rhizomes for planting is also not permitted. Some of the species are already found in large numbers in the forests of the Shumen plateau and tempt visitors and tourists, while picking destroys the populations. We remind you that wild flowers are perishable and once picked from the forest we cannot keep them fresh for even a few hours. For violations, the fines provided for in the Law are for individuals from 100 to 5,000 BGN, and for legal entities and sole traders a property sanction from 500 to 10,000 BGN.
