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State services

Direction régionale de l’environnement, de l’aménagement et du logement (DREAL) Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, préfecture des Bouches-du-Rhône, Direction départementale de la protection des populations (DDPP) des Bouches-du-Rhône, Direction départementale de la cohésion sociale et de la protection des populations (DDCSPP) Besançon, Direction départementale des territoires et de la mer (DDTM) des Bouches-du-Rhône.

 

Sheep breeders and farmers

Centre d’études et de réalisations pastorales Alpes-Méditerranée (CERPAM), breeders, Fédération départementale ovine (FDO 13), Comité du foin de Crau, Maison de la transhumance (Patrick Fabre).

 

Landowners

WWF France, BMW France – test centre, Dépôt de munitions EPMu Miramas, Conseil départemental des Bouches-du-Rhône, Conservatoire du littoral.

 

Military actors

MINARM, EPMu Miramas, Base aérienne 125, MINARM zone de terre Sud.

 

Biologists, naturalists and natural habitat

French associations and experts on orthopterans and insects (e. g. ASCETE, OPIE), stakeholders in the National Lesser Kestrel Action Plan (the national steering committee, as well as the French League for the Protection of Birds), Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur League for the Protection of Birds.

 

Experts and Universities

IUCN SSC Grasshopper Specialist Group and University of Trier (Axel Hochkirch), Conseil scientifique de la Réserve naturelle nationale des Coussouls de Crau (Laurent Tatin, Thierry Dutoit et al. ), IUCN French Committee, INRAE d’Avignon (Dominique Courault), EMMAH, University of Avignon, UMR IMBE (Thierry Dutoir), SupAgro Montpellier-Domaine du Merle (Frédéric Laurent), Bristol Zoogical Society (Mark Bushell) and European Association of Aquariums and Zoos EAZA, Conseil national de la protection de la nature CNPN, etc.

News

 
Communicating and raising awareness

Children from Saint-Martin-de-Crau get to know their Crau Plain Grasshopper neighbour!

Published: Avril 16 2025

On Thursday 20 March, Delphine Lenôtre, Conservatoire d’espaces naturels de Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur nature animator and guard, welcomed a group of 27 children from the Lion d’Or school to the Ecomusée de la Crau for ...

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Managing its habitat

Spring has sprung! Sheep and shepherds are once again roaming the Coussoul!

Published: Avril 14 2025

In the middle of March, Camilla Crifo (Conservatoire d’espaces naturels de Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur), Chloé Allievi (Conservatoire d’espaces naturels de Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur) and Perrine ...

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Managing its habitat

A workshop to shape an after-LIFE plan

Published: Avril 11 2025

On 5 March 2025, a handful of orthopteran experts gathered alongside with the partners of the LIFE SOS Crau Plain Grasshopper project (CEN PACA, Chambre d’Agriculture des Bouches-du-Rhône, Parc Animalier de La Barben, and Citadelle ...

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Managing its habitat

People and horses mobilised to help the Coussoul « breathe »

Published: Avril 09 2025

Between mid-February and mid-March 2025, a major restauration project was launched in an area of the Reserve colonized by filaria (Phillyrea angustifolia), a shrubby plant species that does not belong to the floristic association that ...

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