Adaptive management of wetlands
Objectives
This project has multiple objectives:
- Testing and validating management methodologies and approaches on pilot sites in the Camargue and elsewhere in the Mediterranean Basin;
- Implementing management plans on the Tour du Valat’s properties and the Camargue Saltworks Lagoons and Marshes site;
- Informing natural area managers and promoting sustainable, integrated and/or adaptive approaches to management and exploitation methods (e.g. hunting, livestock farming, and agricultural production) that contribute to the conservation of wetlands;
- Creating tools to transfer the methodologies developed and tested.
Actions & methodology
In the aim of conserving biodiversity and improving the management of wetlands, we have tested management methodologies and approaches at various sites in the Camargue and elsewhere in the Mediterranean Basin.
We have continued to create methodology transfer tools using and disseminating Open Standards for the protection of nature and conservation of biodiversity [1] in France and around the Mediterranean Basin. The project’s target sites are the Tour du Valat Estate, the Petit Saint Jean Estate, Le Verdier Marshes, the Camargue Saltworks Lagoons and Marshes, and the Gediz Delta. We have contributed to developing ecological assessments and management plans for wetlands, especially in partnership with the Conservatoire du littoral (French national coastal conservation agency).
Team
- Project leader: Lisa Ernoul [2]
- Staff involved: Damien Cohez [3], Nicolas Beck [4], Thomas Galewski [5], Anthony Olivier [6], Marc Thibault [7], Loïc Willm [8]
Partners
Technical partners
- Camargue Regional Natural Park [9]
- National Nature Protection Society [10]
- Conservatoire du littoral [11] (French national coastal conservation agency)
Financial partners
- European Commission – Interreg Med [12]
- Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Region [13]
- Rhone-Mediterranean-Corsica Water Agency [14]
- Bouches-du-Rhône Departmental Council [15]
- WWF-France [16]
- Fondation Lemarchand [17]
- Fondation RTE [18]
- Fondation de France [19]
- Caisse d’épargne Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur [20]
- Coca Cola [21]
Publications
- Plan de gestion de la Tour du Valat
- Bouahim, S., Rhazi, L., Ernoul, L., Mathevet, R., Amami, B., Er-Riyahi, S., Muller, S. & Grillas, P. (2015) Combining vulnerability analysis and perceptions of ecosystem services in sensitive landscapes: A case from western Moroccan temporary wetlands. Journal of Nature Conservation. 27:1-9. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lisa_Ernoul/publication/277961696_Combining_vulnerability_analysis_and_perceptions_of_ecosystem_services_in_sensitive_landscapes_A_case_from_western_Moroccan_temporary_wetlands/links/5583b98d08ae8bf4ba6f9fe8.pdf [22]
- Conservatoire du littoral (2017). Plans de gestion du Conservatoire du littoral, Site des Étangs et marais des salins de Camargue, Bouches-du-Rhône. http://www.conservatoire-du-littoral.fr/siteLittoral/483/28-etangs-et-marais-des-salins-de-camargue-13-bouches-du-rhone.htm [23]
- Ernoul, L. & Wardell-Johnson, A. (2015) Environmental discourses: Understanding the implications on ICZM protocol implementation in two Mediterranean deltas. Ocean & Coastal Management. 103 : 97-108.
- Ernoul, L. & Wardell-Johnson, A. (2014) Adapting international conservation strategies to local context: perceptions of biodiversity values and management responsibility in two Mediterranean deltas. International Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem Services & Management. 10 (4) : 300-312. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21513732.2014.980849
- Ernoul, L., Beck, N., Cohez, D., Perennou, P., Thibault, M., Willm, L., & Poulin, B. (2014) Trends in management plans and guides: 25 years of experience from Southern France. Journal of Environnemental Planning and Management. 58 (6) :1096-1112. DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2014.914021
- Ernoul L., Mesléard F., Gaubert P. & Béchet A. (2014) Limits to agri-environmental schemes uptake to mitigate human-wildlife conflict: Lessons learned from Flamingos in the Camargue, Southern France. International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability. (12 (1): 23-36.
- Ernoul L, R. Mathevet, N. Beck and L. Legeay (2010). Community based conservation in action: what does it really imply in terms of investment? Conservation and Society. 7(3):205-212. http://www.conservationandsociety.org/article.asp?issn=0972-4923;year=2009;volume=7;issue=3;spage=205;epage=212;aulast [24]
- Ernoul L. and Mesleard F. (2009) Comment: Adaptive management of an estuarine integrated conservation and development project in Morocco. Environmental Conservation. 35(4):1-2.
- Parc naturel régional de Camargue, SNPN, Tour du Valat (2013). Notice de gestion des Etangs et marais des salins de Camargue 2013-2016. Rapport pour le Conservatoire du littoral, 153 p+ annexes https://pole-lagunes.org/ftp/web/2015/NoticegestionEMSC2013-2016.pdf [25]
- Parc naturel régional de Camargue, SNPN, Tour du Valat (2016). Rapport d’activités 2015 des Étangs et marais des salins de Camargue, 174 p. + annexes. http://85.31.222.100/alexandrie-7/dyn/portal/index.seam?aloId=6844&page=alo&cid=358 [26]