Νήσος Χρυσή ή Γαϊδουρονήσι (Nisi Chrysi i Gaidouronisi)

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Key Information

TYPE
MPA
DESIGNATION
Wildlife Refuge
LOCATED IN
Crete
Greece
AREA
0.41 km2 MARINE AREA
4.73 km2 TOTAL AREA i
MANAGED BY
Υπουργείο Περιβάλλοντος και Ενέργειας
LEVEL OF FISHING PROTECTION (LFP)
Marine life removal is prohibited (or entry is prohibited)
DATA SOURCE(S)

Regulations: MedPAN database on Mediterranean Marine Protected Areas. MedPAN. February 2020.

Boundary: European Environment Agency - CDDA (Unmodified)

DATA VERSION

2.0

LAST REVIEWED

March 2025

OTHER DATABASES
World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) ID: 341532

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Wildlife Refuges are designated natural areas (terrestrial, wetland or marine), which are of particular importance as major development sites for wild flora or as breeding, feeding, or wintering habitat for species of wildlife or fish spawning grounds and nurseries, or as important marine habitats.

Species of Concern: multiple

Regulations Summary

Restrictions

1. Hunting, fishing, catching wildlife, collecting wild flora, destroying any area with natural vegetation, destroying hedgerows, sand extraction, and drainage are prohibited within the Wildlife Refuge.
2. Filling and draining marshland, polluting water bodies, and disposing of or dumping waste are prohibited.

Allowed

1. Capturing wild fauna species for research purposes only in allowed subject to the permission of the Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change as provided for in the existing provisions.
2. Observing wild fauna is allowed.

Governing Regulations