Kvinnsgröta, Naturvårdsområde

Year of decision: 1994
Area: 138 hectares
Municipality: Mörbylånga
Landowner: Individual
Administrator: Kalmar County Administrative Board

The reserve is located within the World Heritage Site of Southern Öland's cultivated landscape

The reserve is located just northwest of the village of Kvinnsgröta on southeastern Öland. Follow road 136 south towards Ottenby. Turn off at Södra Möckleby and cross Stora Alvaret in the direction of Torngård. Continue south along the eastern highway (road 137). Turn towards the village of Kvinnsgröta about 2 km south of Torngård. Once in Kvinnsgröta, follow the village street north. In the far north there is a parking lot on the north side of the last farm in the village. The reserve is bordered to the north by the Mellstaby alvar nature reserve.

In the nature reserve you are not allowed:

• Drive a motorized vehicle off designated roads or trails.
• Park a vehicle, caravan or trailer in a place other than designated parking spaces.
• Camping more than one night in the same place.
• Bring a dog or other animal that is not on a leash.
• Hunting, killing, capturing or harming wild mammals, amphibians, reptiles or birds.
• Remove or damage eggs or nests.
• Deliberately disturbing wildlife.
• Collect loose rocks or remove pieces of bedrock.
• Damage or remove trees, shrubs, mosses and lichens that are growing or dead.
• Use the area for orienteering competitions or training.
• Damaging fencing (for example, fences or barriers).
• Using the area for military exercises.

Full regulations

C. Regulations for the public according to Chapter 7, Section 30 of the Environmental Code on the right to travel and stay in the reserve and on order in general within the reserve.

Within the nature reserve it is not allowed to:

1. drive motorized vehicles other than on specially designated roads and places
2. set up motor vehicles or caravans other than in specially designated places
3. camp more than one night in the same place
4. bring an unleashed dog or other loose pet
5. hunt, kill, capture or injure wild mammals, amphibians, reptiles or birds, remove or damage eggs or nests or otherwise disturb wildlife
6. collect loose rocks or remove pieces of bedrock
7. damaging or removing growing or dead trees, shrubs, mosses and lichens
8. organizing orienteering competitions or training for them
9. damage fences
10. use the area for military exercises.