the biodiversity lottery arrives on October 23

The biodiversity lottery will be available on Monday October 23 at all usual points of sale. This new scratch game from Française des jeux will be used to finance the protection of biodiversity. A predominantly green ticket with a butterfly, the forest, the sea. It will be sold for three euros per ticket, much more affordable than the 15 euros for the heritage lottery, because the government’s objective is to “raise awareness among as many people as possible about the preservation of nature”knowing that Française des jeux has more than 25 million players per year.

Around twenty selected projects

A player can win up to 30,000 euros. The government aims to sell 14 million tickets, which will allow the French Biodiversity Office to raise six million euros, at a rate of 43 cents per ticket sold. The money will then be distributed to the winning projects. The selection committee meets on Tuesday October 10. It will be chaired by the Secretary of State for Biodiversity, Sarah El Hairy. The twenty selected projects will be known during the week of October 16. There are more than 60 candidates: the WWF, the Bird Protection League, natural area conservatories, but also local authorities, with projects to protect nature in cities or restore biodiversity in areas affected by fires last summer. Grants will range from 50,000 to one million euros.

Some six million euros is a drop in the ocean to protect biodiversity, but this lottery is intended above all to be a local, popular tool. In total, biodiversity programs will represent one billion euros in 2024. At this stage, there is no equivalent of Stéphane Bern, who sponsors the heritage lottery, to sponsor the biodiversity lottery. “Nature is its best advocate”plays down the drama of an advisor to the minister.

Municipal elections in Paris

Édouard Philippe will appear on Tuesday October 17, with Parisian Horizons elected official Pierre-Yves Bournazel, aspiring candidate for mayor of Paris in 2026. In the presidential majority, others are thinking about it: the Minister of Transport Clément Beaune or education Gabriel Attal… More well-known figures, but Pierre-Yves Bournazel dreams of himself as Bertrand Delanoë, invested in 2000 against the highly publicized Jack Lang. Pierre-Yves Bournazel, Paris advisor since 2008, is playing the local establishment card against airdrops. Édouard Philippe advised him to speed up and therefore came to support him at a meeting of supporters in the 18th arrondissement of the capital. Paris is well worth some friction between Philippists and Macronists.