Archives 2016

This article was published in December 2016 in the Cryptogamie, Algologie journal; it deals with the study of distribution of epizoic algae on European Pond turtles in the Camargue. You can access it on the publisher’s website, as well as its abstract, trhough the opposite link.

The Tour du Valat, through the presence of its Director General Jean Jalbert, will attend the 2016 World Conservation Congress from 1 to 10 September in Honolulu, in the Polynesian archipelago of Hawai’i (United States). Thousands of conservationists committed to local or global conservation issues will gather during 10 days in this breathtaking but fragile […]

Following the death of Luc Hoffmann on July 21s t 2016, and his funeral held in Switzerland on July 26th, an event is planned in Camargue to pay tribute to him and to celebrate his remarkable life’s achievements. A memorial Celebration will take place at 11.00 on Friday August 19th 2016, at Tour du Valat in Camargue, […]

A life dedicated to nature Tour du Valat has just lost its founding father, and the whole community of nature conservationists, one of its most fervent activist. Luc Hoffmann died peacefully on July 21st, in his home in Camargue, at the age of 93. Born in Basel, Luc Hoffmann, grandson of the founder of the […]

The third Young Scientists Conference for Mediterranean Conservation Sciences, wil take place at the Tour du Valat from 22 to 24 March 2016, in partnership with CEFE-CNRS (Montpellier) and IMBE (Marseille). The registration to this conference and the submission of abstracts can now be done online on the www.medconservationsciences-conference.org website. The Biodivmex project (part of […]

The Tour du Valat hosted the Third Mediterranean Conference for Young Scientists, dedicated to Conservation sciences in the Mediterranean Region, from 22 to 24 March 2016. This series of conferences is held at the Tour du Valat, in the heart of the Camargue. It is organized in close collaboration with the Centre d’Écologie Fonctionnelle et […]