World significance

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The national student competition "Ambassadors of Health" applies to the three age groups: 1-4 grade, 5-7 grade and 8-12 grade and includes two thematic areas: Restriction of smoking and alcohol abuse and healthy eating and physical activity.
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Rehabilitation activities are carried out within the Contract under the project "Restoration and protection of natural habitats and species in Central Balkan National Park", funded by the Operational Program "Environment 2014 - 2020".
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Central Balkan National Park is of world conservation significance, because it is:
· Identified as an area of a high degree of vulnerability, rarity, naturalness, typicality and significance, i.e. as a territory of exceptional biological diversity;
· One of the territories representative of birds of the Alpine biome, as well as of the entire alpine fauna and the species trophically related to it;
· The northernmost location of white fir in the world;
· The most important protected area in the world for the semi-colarred flycatcher, white-backed woodpecker, Bechstein's bat, souslik and mountain molerat;
· A form-generating source for plants and invertebrates;
· The largest protected area of beech forests in the world, with the characteristic fauna;
· A breeding ground for a large number of species of world conservation status: 21 species of vertebrates endangered on a world scale (10% of the Park’s vertebrate fauna), 19 invertebrate species and 10 plant species;
· One of the major centers of endemicity (of species of limited geographic range): 10 local endemics, 10 Bulgarian, and 67 species and subspecies of higher plants endemic to the Balkan Peninsula, as well as 168 endemic species of vertebrates and invertebrates;
· A territory that ensures the survival and reproduction of populations of world conservation significance of 13 species and subspecies of vertebrates.

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