there is a perception that timber harvesting sanitation cutting allowed within national parks is in conflict with the main purpose of these protected areas but the logging practices are designed to be lowimpact and lowintensity alternative financing options for the national parks and other protected areas have been studied and should be pursued the department of nature protection only performs inspections on implementation of the provisions of the management plan and implementation of overall protection according to the law on nature protection local municipal governments have almost no competencies concerning administration of category i and ii protected areas article