First planting test of wild local seeds collected in 2023!
The Civil Agricultural Exploitation Company created as part of the project has several missions, including the collection of local wild seeds. The aim of this action is to restore meadows in a poor state of conservation in order to bring back local biodiversity important for the environments and ecosystems operation. Discover the work carried out through this video. […]
Several natural area management and restoration actions at the start of 2024:
The Gerbot farm, managed in partnership with ANA-CEN Ariège for around ten years on 100 hectares, has been the subject of several natural area management and restoration actions at the start of 2024: Light cleaning of a water source and restoration of an old adjoining water trough, then protection of the water source by a fixed fence; […]
Restoration project in areas of the Marsh fritillary
This project was carried out by students from the Purpan agronomical engineering school, with whom the Conservatoire d’espaces naturels d’Occitanie signed a partnership agreement. This partnership therefore makes it possible to educate students, most of them future agricultural engineers, more concretely about biodiversity issues. Photo ©CEN Occitanie natural management team
A Biodiversity file on the Terre de Liens resource center
Please find a new file (in French) dedicated to Agriculture allied with Biodiversity on the Terre de Liens resource center, to discover Terre de Liens tools, get inspired, or go further.
The action launch on the multi-site management plans
The A5 action of the LIFE Biodiv’Paysanne project plans to experiment with the drafting of multi-site management plans, in accordance with the reference methodology for drafting management plans for natural areas in France: it will therefore be a question to develop, no longer for each site but for each network of sites, a multi-site management plan, […]
Participation at the Conservatoire d’espaces naturels congress
The LIFE Biodiv’Paysanne was in the spotlight during the Conservatoire d’espaces naturels congress which took place in La Rochelle in December 2023. A great opportunity to highlight this ambitious project in front of all the France Conservatoires d’espaces naturels and numerous partners in the management of natural spaces and the agricultural world. Indeed, the theme of this congress […]
Autumn Winter 2023
A new species of Vertigo antivertigo was discovered on the Lemboulas sites, in Tarn-et-Garonne, by Margot Delrieu from CEN Occitanie. The identification was confirmed by Samuel Danflous and Pierre-Olivier Cochard of the Toulouse Museum. Photo INPN ©O.Gargominy
October 2023
Publications in the press Primaire media : the LIFE Biodiv’Paysanne project received the journalist from Primaire, Lucie le May. Primaire is an ecological-rural focused media which highlights an ecological way of life and agroecological practices in agriculture. In France, it meets those who anchor themselves in their territory and shape it through their direct interactions with nature. Lucie came to […]
New acquisitions of natural sites in Pyrenees-Orientales (66)
Municipality of Thuir : 20-year management agreement signed on the 80 hectares of communal plots of wet meadows of the “Prades de Thuir” (since June) Municipality of Arboussols : 40-year long lease signed with Foncière Terre de Liens, owner of 34 ha of old olive tree terraces, maquis above Lake Vinça Photo : Arboussols ©Romain Bouteloup CEN Occitanie
An update on multi-site management plans
During 2023, three meetings were held with the people concerned by this action and the scientific representatives of CEN Occitanie. These meetings were about : The objectives of these new management documents: reflection on a larger scale, greater coherence of actions, optimization of the time allocated, and a relevant and thoughtful landship strategy. Possible obstacles to this […]
