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Brittany: an application to recognize marine species
In Brittany, an application, Bernic&Clic, allows you to cleverly recognize seaside species. It can identify 130 species of crabs, fish, algae and even mollusks.
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In Brittany, an application, Bernic&Clic, allows you to cleverly recognize seaside species. It can identify 130 species of crabs, fish, algae and even mollusks.
The Bernic&Clic application allows “to discover, through a game of questions, the algae and animals found on the seaside”explains its creator, Nathalie Delliou. It also allows you to learn a lot about these species. Students from a school in Finistère are testing the device. First encounter: a green crab. Further on, they discover a spiny crab, starry botryllids and an anemone. “It gives a lot of information, their size, how long they live”explains a young student. The application is also aimed at adults.
The Bernic&Clic application, free of charge, was set up by the environmental education network in Brittany, explains journalist Valérie Heurtel, on the set of the 1 p.m. news. It also works without a network. Another great initiative in Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône), where schools lack swimming pools to teach children to swim. The association Le grand bleu has installed a pool in the sea, at the foot of the northern districts. The lessons are supervised by a swimming instructor. In 20 years, 15,000 children have learned to swim.
In the Breton islands, a sailing catamaran, the Saona, provides a shuttle between Quiberon and Belle-Île-en-Mer (Morbihan). Finally, a student from La Rochelle (Charente-Maritime) builds sand molds from recycled chewing gum to prevent them from ending up in the sea.
