The Parc du Vercors is launching a biodiversity atlas with 38 municipalities on its territory, a first on this scale!
Chrystelle Caton is Project Manager Atlas of Communal Biodiversity for the Vercors Regional Nature Park.
Four main themes have been selected:
Bats ; pollinators; remarkable trees and hedges; wetlands.
We have a big decline in pollinating insects, in Europe in particular. Figures came out a few years ago, according to an international study, in 30 years, nearly 80% of insects have disappeared in Europe.
– Y.Baillet
Hedges have many functions, a biological function since they will be the refuge of many species but they will also allow the movement of fauna.
A third of the wetlands during the 20th century disappeared, it’s a fairly large figure and some are still disappearing today. The challenge is therefore to identify them in order to better preserve them.
Links to go further:
parc-du-vercors.fr
The SPIPOLL aims to study pollination networks.