Article 27. Prevention of diseases and death of wild animals, preservation of their habitats, breeding sites and migration routes during economic and other activities

Legal entities and individuals, in the course of any economic and other activities, shall take measures to prevent diseases and death of wild animals and to preserve their habitats, breeding sites and migration routes.

The State Veterinary Service shall take measures to prevent and eradicate infectious diseases of wild animals and shall perform other functions in accordance with legislation.

It shall be prohibited, without regard to the requirements for protection and use of the animal world, to burn plants, to store and use materials, raw materials, chemicals, plant protection products, mineral fertilizers and other substances hazardous to wild animals, as well as to dispose, transport or bury household and industrial waste.

When locating, designing and constructing settlements, enterprises, transport highways, power transmission and communication lines, hydraulic structures and other facilities, when improving existing technological processes and introducing new ones, when bringing swampy and bushy areas into economic use, when setting water regimes and limits of water use, land reclamation, forest use, geological exploration, extraction of minerals, grazing of agricultural animals and defining their driveways, developing tourist routes and establishing mass recreation areas, measures must be envisaged and implemented to preserve habitats, breeding sites and migration routes of wild animals, as well as to ensure the inviolability of areas of special value as habitats of wild animals.