Gårdby sandhed, Naturreservat

Decision year: 2014

Area: 39.4 hectares

Municipality: Mörbylånga

Landowners: Mörbylånga municipality and individuals

Administrator: Kalmar County Administrative Board

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

The reserve is located north of Gårdby on eastern Öland. Parking is available along road 136.

In the nature reserve you are not allowed:

• Drive a motorized vehicle.
• Park a motor vehicle, caravan or trailer.
• Camp for more than 24 hours in the same place.
• Climb trees with nests.
• Being close to a bird of prey nest, lair or burrow.
• Deliberately disturbing wildlife.
• Bringing a dog, or other animal, that is not on a leash.
• Make a fire anywhere other than in a barbecue you have brought or in an outdoor kitchen.
• Picking or damaging mosses, lichens or wood fungi.
• Digging or pulling up vascular plants.
• Damage or remove trees, stumps, bark, branches, shrubs or brush that are growing or dead.

If you have obtained a permit from the County Administrative Board, you may:

• Set traps to collect insects.

After consultation with the County Administrative Board, you may:

• Set traps to collect insects which are then killed.
• Deliberately destroy or remove piles of droppings from the area (with regard to dung beetles). You may examine them carefully.

Full regulations

C. Regulations 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.

It is forbidden to enter the reserve:

1. drive motor vehicles
2. set up motor vehicles, caravans or trailers
3. camping for more than one day in the same place
4. climbing trees, staying close to a bird of prey's nest, lair or pot, or otherwise deliberately damaging or disturbing wildlife
5. bring an unleashed dog or other loose pet
6. light a fire other than in a barbecue or outdoor kitchen
7. Pick or damage wood fungi, mosses or lichens.
8. Digging or pulling up vascular plants.
9. Damage or remove growing or dead trees, stumps, bark, branches, bushes or brush.

It is forbidden to do so without the permission of the County Administrative Board:

1. collect insects with traps that kill.

It is prohibited without consultation with the County Administrative Board:

1. trap or collect insects where the animals are killed, except as provided in C 10.
2. deliberately destroying or removing piles of droppings from the area with regard to the area's dung beetles. Careful examination is not an obstacle.

The provisions of point C do not apply to owners or holders of special rights to real estate or holders of other rights.