Bocages et vergers du sud Pays d'Auge

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.

Geography

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. The area is mostly agricultural with 5 % being scrubland and the remaining 5% being forested.

It is spread across 30 different communes all within the Orne department;

1. Almenêches
2. Les Authieux-du-Puits
3. Champ-Haut
4. Cisai-Saint-Aubin
5. Coulmer
6. Croisilles
7. Échauffour
8. La Ferrière-au-Doyen
9. Gacé
10. La Genevraie
11. Ginai
12. Gouffern en Auge
13. Lignères
14. Mahéru
15. Le Merlerault
16. Moulins-la-Marche
17. Ménil-Froger
18. Ménil-Hubert-en-Exmes
19. Le Ménil-Vicomte
20. Nonant-le-Pin
21. Orgères
22. Le Pin-au-Haras
23. Planches
24. Résenlieu
25. Saint-Evroult-Notre-Dame-du-Bois
26. Saint-Evroult-de-Montfort
27. Saint-Germain-de-Clairefeuille
28. Saint-Pierre-des-Loges
29. Sainte-Gauburge-Sainte-Colombe
30. La Trinité-des-Laitiers

Conservation

The conservation area has three species of insect listed in Annex 2 of the Habitats Directive;

1. European stag beetle
2. Hermit beetle
3. Great capricorn beetle