July 22, 2016
Death of Luc Hoffmann
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 […]
From March 22 to March 24, 2016
3rd Mediterranean Conservation Sciences Conference 22-24 March 2016
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 […]
From March 22 to March 24, 2016
Feedback on the Third Mediterranean Conservation Sciences Conference for Young Scientists and selection of the first Alan Johnson Award recipient
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 […]
November 12, 2015
Heinz Hafner Lecture on November 12th, 2015, Tour du Valat
The 2015 Heinz Hafner Lecture will be given at the Tour du Valat on November 12th, 2015, at 6.30pm. It will be given within the cycle of annual lectures on conservation biology, initiated by Tour du Valat in order to highlight the work on waterbird and wetland conservation of Heinz Hafner. This event will be […]
From June 23 to June 24, 2015
Conference-debate "Socio-Economic of Coastal and Marine protected spaces in the Mediterranean"
The Tour du Valat participates in the organizing of a conference-debate on June 23rd and 24th in Marseilles, about “”Socio-Economic of Coastal and Marine protected spaces in the Mediterranean : What impacts for the sustainable development of territories?“ You can access the program of the event here, as well as all the practical details in […]
June 16, 2015
Facebook page of the Friends of Tour du Valat Association
The Friends of Tour du Valat Association, that has just been created, now has its own Facebook page. You can follow its news at this address https://www.facebook.com/amistourduvalat (in French), and get all the information about it through the link here opposite.
June 3, 2015
The Tour du Valat honoured by the Ramsar Convention
On Wednesday 3 June 2015, the Tour du Valat received the Ramsar Convention Award for Merit, at the 12th Conference of the Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention in Punta del Este (Uruguay). The Ramsar Wetlands Awards have been attributed since 1999 at the international Conferences of Contracting Parties (COPs). Their aim is to give […]
From March 30 to April 3, 2015
Integrated Population Models Workshop 30 March – 3 April 2015
From 30 March to 3 April 2015, a 5-day workshop on Integrated Population Models (IPMs) we will be taught at the Tour du Valat Biological Station in the Camargue, Southern France. The workshop aims at giving a highly accessible and practical introduction of the powerful integrated population modeling (IPM) framework with the most widely used […]
February 2, 2015
Launching of the 2015 World Wetlands Days in the Camargue, Southern France
The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International importance, which was adopted in 1971 in Iran, was actually born in the Camargue, first French designated site. This is why this area was chosen to launch officially the 2015 World Wetlands Days on the 2nd of February. The theme « Wetlands for our Future » for this 2015 edition […]
January 7, 2015
Death of Alan Johnson
Alan Johnson, one of the pionner members of the Tour du Valat from the 60s and a specialist of the Greater Flamingo recognized worldwide, left us on December 24th, 2014 at the age of 73, after a long illness. He had been awarded a prize last […]