Tour du Valat Newsletter n°46 | September 2024 | | | | | FOCUS| Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur's nature reserves adapt to climate change | | July 1, 2024 marked the kick-off of the Natur'Adapt Sud project. For 18 months, the project aims to help nature reserve managers in the Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur Region adapt to climate change - something we must all do today! Networking is at the heart of this region-wide project, involving 10 organizations that manage 13 nature reserves in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, including all regional nature reserves like the one at the Tour du Valat. Supported by the DREAL (Regional Directorate for Environment, Planning and Housing) and the Sud-Region, and coordinated by the Tour du Valat, this project will enable most of the region's nature reserves to develop a climate change adaptation strategy, which can then be integrated into their next management plan. | | THREE QUESTIONS TO ... | Noémie Nojaroff, Natur Adapt Sud project manager | | Noémie Nojaroff, Project Manager at Tour du Valat, answers our questions about the deployment of the Natur'Adapt method on 13 sites in the Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur region, including Tour du Valat Regional Nature Reserve. | | | | | A look back at the 7th flamingo ringing at the Aigues-Mortes salt marsh | | The Tour du Valat coordinated the ringing of 450 flamingo chicks on 7 August at the Aigues-Mortes salt marsh. This site, owned by the Compagnie "Salins du Midi" and "Salines de l'Est", is the only pink flamingo nesting site in France. | | | | | Tour du Valat Regional Nature Reserve is expanding! | | As of 12 July 2024, the Tour du Valat reserve now covers 2163.7 hectares, i.e. an additional 318.7 hectares, including part of the Terres de Moncanard and Giraud Nord. | | | | | Implementation of GAEC2 : Are wetlands and peatlands in danger? | | In two letters addressed to the Ministers for Ecological Transition and Agriculture, a group of environmental stakeholders, including Tour du Valat, express their concern about the impact of the implementation in France of the BCAE2 (Bonne Condition Agricole et Environnementale n°2) standard : ‘Protection of wetlands and peatlands’. | | | | | A National Management Plan for shorebirds | | At the beginning of 2024, the French Ministry for Ecological Transition commissioned Tour du Valat and the Biodiversité French Office to draw up a National Management Plan for five species of shorebird that breed in grasslands and other herbaceous environments in France: the lapwing, the curlew, the black-tailed godwit, the redshank and the common snipe. | | | | | A summer at Petit Saint-Jean agroecological farm | | This summer at the Petit Saint-Jean farm was marked by a dynamic combination of agriculture, biodiversity and conviviality, confirming the Tour du Valat's commitment to sustainable agriculture. | | | | | A look back at the 28th International Bat Night | | Organised by the Rest-Chir'Eau project team, in partnership with the Camargue Regional Nature Park, Bat Night was a sell-out event at the Tour du Valat. | | | | | 🎧 Podcast I European pond terrapins, ‘sentinels of the environment' | | Follow journalist Pierre Isnard-Dupuy (Mars Actu) into the marshes of the Camargue to discover the long-term monitoring of European pond terrapins being carried out at the Tour du Valat. | | | 🎧 Podcast I Plastic on the gulls' menu | | Join ecologist Karen McCoy (CNRS) on a visit to a colony of Yellow-legged Gulls monitored by the Tour du Valat. She is assessing the exposure of birds that feed on landfill sites to plastic pollution. | | | 📽️ Webinar I How do you restore a wetland? Case studies and best practice | | Organised by the Blue Plan in collaboration with the Tour du Valat, find out more about the WaterLANDS project and the work being done in the Camargue and the Venice lagoon. | | | | | Latest scientific publications | | GPS tagging does not affect breeding of Yellow-legged Gulls, according to new study | | | | | Use of an analysis model to implement a wetlands observatory in Algeria in a recent publy | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA | | | | | Tour du Valat Fondation Research Institute for the Conservation of Mediterranean Wetlands Visit our website www.tourduvalat.org | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Editorial committee : J. Jalbert, R. Billé, B. Guénebeaud, C. Hermeloup et E. Stamm. They contributed : N. Nojaroff, D. Cohez, A. Oliver, A-S. Hervy et A. Marquis-Soria. | | | Photos and illustrations credits : G. Wasse, CD 13 et RNF ; M.Lourenço ; M. Douchin ; RNF ; Tour du Valat ; Pixabay ; A. Marquis-Soria x2 ; J.E. Roche ; A. Marquis-Soria ; Plan Bleu ; C. Souc ; A. Si Bachir ; P. Defos du Rau, J. Birard et C. Deschamps ; T. Blanchon et C. Girard (Adopt a flamingo). | | | | | All rights reserved © Tour du Valat Fondation, 2024. | | | | | | |
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