Rälla-Ekerum, Naturreservat

Decision year: 2020
Area: 603 hectares of which 251 hectares are land
Municipality: Borgholm
Landowners: Individuals
Manager: Kalmar County Administrative Board

The reserve is located on the western side of central Öland at the height of Rälla village. If you go here by car, there is parking at the Halltorps hage nature reserve, which connects to Rälla-Ekerum. You can also park at the entrance to Rälla farm in the eastern part of the reserve, at the memorial grove and at the windmill on Ljungheden.By bus: Bus stops are located along road 136, including in Rälla. Contact Kalmar länstrafik for timetables.

In the nature reserve you are not allowed:

• Park a vehicle, caravan or trailer in any place other than designated parking spaces.
• Drive a motorboat or other motorized craft in the water area at a speed higher than 7 knots.
• Driving personal watercraft.
• Fishing or using gear that in any way damages the seabed or the flora and fauna in the water area.
• Mooring or anchoring a boat in the same place for more than 24 hours.
• Camping for more than 24 hours in the same place.
• Deliberately disturbing wildlife.
• Hunting, killing, capturing or harming wild mammals, birds or their young.
• Climbing trees with nests.
• Being near a bird of prey's nest, lair or burrow.
• Make a fire anywhere other than in designated areas or outdoor kitchens.
• Bringing an off-leash dog into pastures during the grazing season.
• Damage or remove trees or shrubs that are growing or dead.

If you have received permission from the County Administrative Board, you may:

• Pick or damage mosses, lichens or woodland fungi.
• Dig or pull up vascular plants.
• Set traps to collect insects that are then killed.
• erecting a board, sign, poster or similar device or making inscriptions
• Marking out tracks or setting up an orientation control
• Driving or landing a hovercraft, hydrocopter, low-flying aircraft or similar craft. You may use drones for operation and maintenance work on power lines.
• Use the area for competitions, exercises or other events.

Full regulations

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

It is forbidden to enter the reserve:

1. park motor vehicles, caravans or trailers other than in the designated place.
2. drive a motorboat, jet ski or other motorized craft at a speed of more than 7 knots.
3. engage in fishing or other activities with gear that disturbs or otherwise damages the seabed or plant and animal communities in the water area
4. mooring or anchoring a boat for more than 24 hours in the same place
5. camping in the same place for more than 24 hours
6. injuring or deliberately disturbing mammals, birds and other vertebrates, climbing nest trees or staying near a bird of prey's nest, lair or pot
7. make fires other than in open-air kitchens or in specially designated places
8. Bring an unleashed dog into pastures during the grazing season.
9. Break branches, cut down or damage living or dead trees or bushes.

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

1. pick mosses, lichens or woody fungi except for single specimens for species identification.
2. digging or pulling up vascular plants
3. collecting insects or other invertebrates with traps that kill
4. placing a sign, board, poster, art object, carving, marking or similar.
5. Take off or land with motorized aircraft and paragliders or fly with drones. Drones may be used for operation and maintenance work on pipelines.
6. carry out competitions, events or equivalent organized activities that can significantly change the natural environment or have a significant impact on outdoor life.