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====Estonia==== In Estonia, it is permitted to access natural and cultural landscapes on foot, by bicycle, ski, boat, or on horseback.<ref name="Igaüheõigus">{{Cite web |date=2011-01-19 |title=Everyman's right and public access to natural areas |url=https://www.eesti.ee/en/housing-and-environment/nature-protection/everymans-right-and-public-access-to-natural-areas}}</ref> Private property may be accessed at any time. If the private property is fenced or posted against trespassing, the permission of the owner is required to proceed. The owner of the private property is also required to post signs stating the ownership of the land, and contact numbers, to avoid legal issues. Land owners may not block access to land, roads or bodies of water that are public or are designated for public use, including ice and shore paths.<ref name="Igaüheõigus" /> All bodies of water that are public or designated for public use have public shore paths that are up to 4 m wide. The shore path along a navigable body of water may extend to a distance of 10 m from the water line. The owner may not close this path even if the private property is posted or marked with no-trespassing signs. Grazing areas and other enclosed areas along the shore paths must have stiles. Ponds with no outlet located entirely on the land of one land owner and lakes smaller than five hectares located on land belonging to more than one land owner shall not be in public use. Permission from the landowner is required to access such bodies of water.<ref name="Igaüheõigus" /> Neither do bodies of water protected as sources of drinking water or which are in use by aquaculture or are in other special use have a shore path. All of the rights and responsibilities regarding humans’ interaction with nature are collectively termed everyman's right. Everyman's right does not pertain to the organizing of sporting events or other public events in open country. To organize these, the permission of the landowners or other possessors of land, and if necessary, of the local government, must be sought.<ref name="Igaüheõigus" /> The following is permitted in nature: * accessing areas by foot, on bicycle, skis, boat or horseback in all places not prohibited on the basis of law(s); * being present in any area where access is permitted; * gathering wild berries, mushrooms, flowers, medicinal plants, hazelnuts and other natural products not under nature protection; * fishing bodies of water that are public or designated for public use with a simple hand line. The following is prohibited: * accessing the immediate proximity of a person's yard, plantations, apiaries, sown crops, grain field and other cropland where damage is thereby incurred by the owner; * lighting fires and camping without permission from the land owner or possessor; * hunting and fishing without relevant license, except for simple hand line; * injuring trees and bushes; * disrupting the peace of local inhabitants; * damaging the habitats and nests of forest animals and birds, gathering or removing their eggs, or otherwise doing harm to them; * damaging nature protection objects and protected species; * using motor vehicles where prohibited; * polluting nature.
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