Bocages et vergers du sud Pays d'Auge

Bocages et vergers du sud Pays d'Auge
Map showing the location of Bocages et vergers du sud Pays d'Auge
Map showing the location of Bocages et vergers du sud Pays d'Auge
Location within France
LocationOrne, Normandy
Coordinates48°44′02″N 0°17′49″E / 48.73389°N 0.29694°E / 48.73389; 0.29694
Area21,511 ha (83.05 sq mi)
Established12 December, 2008

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 30 different communes all within the Orne department;[1]

  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;[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.