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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.[1]

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.[2] The area is mostly agricultural with 5 % being scrubland and the remaining 5% being forested.[1]

It is spread across 27 different communes all within the Orne department;[1]

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

Conservation

The conservation area has three species of insect listed in Annex 2 of the Habitats Directive;[3]

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

References

  1. ^ a b c "INPN - FSD Natura 2000 - FR2502014 - Bocages et vergers du sud Pays d'Auge - Description".
  2. ^ Normandie, Chambres d'agriculture de (June 11, 2024). "Natura 2000". normandie.chambres-agriculture.fr.
  3. ^ "portant désignation du site Natura 2000 Bocages et vergers du sud Pays d'Auge". ministere de l'ecologie du developpement durable d'energie.