Bocages et vergers du sud Pays d'Auge
Appearance
Bocages et vergers du sud Pays d'Auge translated as the Bocages and orchards of the southern Pays d'Auge is a Natura 2000 conservation area that is 21,511 hectares in size.[1]
Geography
[edit]The area is a well-preserved wooded landscape that features dense hedges which shelter old trees whose pollarding has allowed cavities to appear in these trees, suitable for certain types of insects.[2] The area is mostly agricultural with 5 % being scrubland and the remaining 5% being forested.[1]
It is spread across 30 different communes all within the Orne department;[1]
- Almenêches
- Les Authieux-du-Puits
- Champ-Haut
- Cisai-Saint-Aubin
- Coulmer
- Croisilles
- Échauffour
- La Ferrière-au-Doyen
- Gacé
- La Genevraie
- Ginai
- Gouffern en Auge
- Lignères
- Mahéru
- Le Merlerault
- Moulins-la-Marche
- Ménil-Froger
- Ménil-Hubert-en-Exmes
- Le Ménil-Vicomte
- Nonant-le-Pin
- Orgères
- Le Pin-au-Haras
- Planches
- Résenlieu
- Saint-Evroult-Notre-Dame-du-Bois
- Saint-Evroult-de-Montfort
- Saint-Germain-de-Clairefeuille
- Saint-Pierre-des-Loges
- Sainte-Gauburge-Sainte-Colombe
- La Trinité-des-Laitiers
Conservation
[edit]The conservation area has three species of insect listed in Annex 2 of the Habitats Directive;[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "INPN - FSD Natura 2000 - FR2502014 - Bocages et vergers du sud Pays d'Auge - Description".
- ^ Normandie, Chambres d'agriculture de (June 11, 2024). "Natura 2000". normandie.chambres-agriculture.fr.
- ^ "portant désignation du site Natura 2000 Bocages et vergers du sud Pays d'Auge". ministere de l'ecologie du developpement durable d'energie.