Law No.121 of 1992 establishing the Horsh Ehden Nature Reserve

57 Appendix 1 LAW121 Article 1: The isle of "Birds and rabbits" in front of Tripoli's seashore as well as the public domain of Eh den's woodland are considered reserves. The domain ofEhden's woodland has its boundaries as follows: East: Wadi El IGama (Resurrection valley) separating the district of Zgharta and Danieh. West: "jouiit fountain" lands in Ehden. North: "el bououl" area lands in Ehden. South: St. Sarkis evergreen cypress in Ehden. Article 2: For the purpose of preserving the woodland wealth for the above mentioned reserves, it is forbidden to cut, invest or manufacture all trees of all kinds that exists in the reserve. Article 3: The entrance of cattle into the reserves territories is forbidden in order to protect their raising and their plants and to prevent them from damage. Article 4: It is forbidden to take any yields from the reserves proceeds such as the extract or the removal of stones or sands or metal or earth or herbs or grass or green leaves or natural manure from the woodland ground or oak or various seeds or other fruits and all yields or contents of the reserves. Article 5: It is forbidden to perform any work or action, which infringes the natural equilibrium of the reserves particularly: 1. Setting fire to or burning herbs and other plants or garbage that exist within the reserves and also the same restrictions are enforced outside them and for a distance not less than 500 meters from the boundaries of both reserves. 2. Terrestrial hunting in the territories of both reserves and fishing on the seashore of the isle ofrabbits. 3. Camping within the reserves territories or throwing garbage etc. . . and any other actions that harms the two reserves or deforms the natural sights. Article 6: Any legal term, current or future and all duly international agreements that focus and stress the protection of the environment and the natural, maritime, beautiful and woodland wealth. 58 In the penalties Article 7 All herbs and cut or manufactured wood will be confiscated and sold at auction for the benefit of the committee of the reserves from which the herbs or wood are extracted. The violators are sentenced from 3 month to 3 years of imprisonment and are fined between 50,000 and 100,000 LBP on every cut tree (depending on its hugeness) or 1,000LBP/Kg of wood or fire wood and 10,000LBP on every manufactured box and 5,000LBP on each Kg of all manufactured materials. Article 8: Whoever makes the cattle enter the reserve is penalized with a fine of 5,000LBP on each animal and with imprisonment from 2 to 6 months or is penalized with on of these 2 penalties. Article 9: Whoever breaks up or damages or removes any yields from the reserves proceeds or eliminates any boundaries or divided stacks is fined from 5,00LBP to 50,000LBP and is penalized from 15 days to 6 months of imprisonment or is penalized with one of these two penalties. Whoever sets fire in one of the reserves is penalized from one month to two years an is fined in proportion with the damages in process. In case there are two penalties on the same delict the maximum penalty is implemented. Article 10 In all cases and in addition to all penalties shown above it is decided to recover all woodland materials taken or cut off from the woodland, and to confiscate the access, cutters, nets, machines, cutting equipment and other materials and the transport means that are used to commit the infraction. These confiscated materials and the fines are vested in the the protectorate's committee which achieves the sequestration. Article 11: A committee of seven members is appointed for a 3 year period by virtue of a decision taken by the competent minister for agriculture. This committee performs forestation and protection works and takes precautions provided the municipality and the concerned on the ecological affairs be represented in Ehden's reserve's committee and also the municipalities of both Tripoli and El­ Mina and the concerned on ecological affairs be represented in the committee in the isle of "birds and rabbits" Article 12: This law 1s brought into effect immediately after being published in the official gazette.