{"id":10887,"date":"2013-08-09T17:17:08","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T15:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/uncategorized\/initiative-2-camargue-a-new-partnership-to-manage-an-exceptional-site\/"},"modified":"2017-11-18T19:37:39","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T18:37:39","slug":"initiative-2-camargue-a-new-partnership-to-manage-an-exceptional-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/newsletter-articles\/initiative-2-camargue-a-new-partnership-to-manage-an-exceptional-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Initiative 2 – Camargue, a new partnership to manage an exceptional site"},"content":{"rendered":"

L\u2019acquisition r\u00e9cente de pr\u00e8s de 7 000 ha d\u2019anciens salins repr\u00e9sente une opportunit\u00e9 unique pour exp\u00e9rimenter et mettre en \u0153uvre \u00e0 grande \u00e9chelle une gestion favorable aux processus de restauration \u00e9cologique et int\u00e9grant pleinement les cons\u00e9quences du changement climatique.<\/b><\/p>\n

\"\"Les trois derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es, le Conservatoire du Littoral, \u00e9paul\u00e9 par divers acteurs publics (Minist\u00e8re de l\u2019Ecologie, Union europ\u00e9enne, Agence de l\u2019Eau RM&C, R\u00e9gion PACA, D\u00e9partement des bouches du Rh\u00f4ne) s\u2019est progressivement port\u00e9 acqu\u00e9reur d\u2019un vaste ensemble foncier d\u2019anciens salins, atteignant aujourd\u2019hui pr\u00e8s de 7 000 hectares.<\/span><\/p>\n

Compos\u00e9 d\u2019anciennes lagunes jusque l\u00e0 utilis\u00e9es pour l\u2019activit\u00e9 salicole et de milieux naturels terrestres p\u00e9riph\u00e9riques, ce site exceptionnel comprend plus de 17 km de littoral, dont une partie subit une forte \u00e9rosion.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Over the last three years, the Conservatoire du Littoral (Coastal Protection Agency), assisted by various public bodies (Ministry of Ecology, European Union, RM&C Water Agency, PACA Region, Bouches du Rh\u00f4ne Department) has progressively bought up a vast land area of former salinas, now reaching nearly 7000 hectares.<\/p>\n

Made up of former lagoons until recently used for salt production together with peripheral natural terrestrial habitats, this exceptional site includes more than 17 km of coastline, part of which is subject to heavy erosion.<\/p>\n

These areas of great ecological and landscape value are a major management and conservation issue for the Camargue, and for the Mediterranean as a whole, requiring a real partnership. The Conservatoire du Littoral has therefore entrusted management of the site to three organisations with complementary areas of expertise: the Camargue Regional Natural Park (coordinator), the Tour du Valat, and the National Nature Protection Society, (manager of the Camargue Reserve, which neighbours the site). This partnership will enable the testing and real-scale implementation of adaptive management methods in response to both conservation objectives and the demands of society. In particular, it needs to deal with coastline management in a local and global context where marine submersion issues are omnipresent. Initial studies, already or soon to be underway, will investigate three areas -biodiversity (study coordinated by the Tour du Valat), the hydraulic system, and the potential for socio-economic development \u2013 on which basis a provisional management plan will be drawn up. In the long run, the management of the site is intended to serve as a model for the restoration and reclaiming of other Mediterranean wetlands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

L\u2019acquisition r\u00e9cente de pr\u00e8s de 7 000 ha d\u2019anciens salins repr\u00e9sente une opportunit\u00e9 unique pour exp\u00e9rimenter et mettre en \u0153uvre \u00e0 grande \u00e9chelle une gestion favorable aux processus de restauration \u00e9cologique et int\u00e9grant pleinement les cons\u00e9quences du changement climatique. Les trois derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es, le Conservatoire du Littoral, \u00e9paul\u00e9 par divers acteurs publics (Minist\u00e8re de l\u2019Ecologie, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[190],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsletter-articles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10888,"href":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10887\/revisions\/10888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}