Vydritsa biosphere reserve shall be allotted the area of 17560 hectares and shall have as its purpose the conservation of the unique landscape with the population of rare and endangered plants and game recorded in the Red Book of Belarus. The following activities shall be prohibited on the territory of Vydritsa biosphere reserve: 1) land reclamation; 2) extraction of peat and sapropel; 3) clear final cutting with cutting area more than one hundred metres wide; 4) damage and annihilation of shrub