The Natural Regional Park of the Briere

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The Natural Regional Park of the Briere
Harmony between Nature and Traditions
BIODIVERSITY REPORT Kapfer Geraldine
Photo Bonnet P.
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The park in itself
Why a regional park?
The Briere - is a fragile inhabited zone
- has a remarkable patrimony
(cultural and natural)
It has been created the 16th of October 1970
All the protagonists have signed their agreement
into the chart, to follow a project (with
different orientations and objectives)
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Description of the park
Illustration Fleury Maillard
(including 19000 ha of wet lands)
The park 40000 ha
The Grande Briere marsh 7000 ha
surrounded by the Brivet marsh
Particularity of the Grande Briere marsh
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The park aims at protecting
1/ The biodiversity
Illustraton Faune et flore des marais brierons
A mosaic of landscapes a patchwork of biotopes
a very rich biodiversity
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Canals and piardes
Photos Parc naturel regional de Briere, Faune et
flore des marais brierons
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Vegetation
Floating plants
Submerged plants
Photo Faune et flore des marais brierons
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Animals
Anseriforms
Galliforms
Photos site www.perso.club-internet/houpert/oisea
ux.htm
Charadriiforms (Waders)
Passeriforms (Singing birds)
Photos Faune et flore des marais brierons
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Reed beds
Vegetation
Photos Faune et flore des marais brierons, site
www.parc-naturel-briere.fr
Animals
Photos Faune et flore des marais brierons
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Wet grasslands
Vegetation
Animals
Photos sites www.parc-naturel-briere.fr,, Larose
R.
Photos Faune et flore des marais brierons
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2/ Traditions
- Until the middle of the XIXs century brieran
lived quite independently
Photossite www.parc-naturel-briere.fr, Parc
naturel regional de Briere
- Industrialization came and tradition were
mostly abandoned.
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Now, what does the park?
1/ Concrete actions
Photos Bernard J-Y. Boulet A.
- Encouraging farmers to chose extensive rearing
and reaping.

• Using the products of the marsh.

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2/ Ecotourism
- 250 km of path in circuits have been made.

• Traditional villages, the lock keeper house and
  an animal park have
• been constructed.

Photos site www.parc-naturel-briere.fr
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The end