Hatching is underway!
The Conservatoire d’espaces naturels Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, the Parc Animalier de la Barben, and the Citadelle de Besançon are pleased to announce the birth of Primo, a beautiful baby Crau Plain Grasshopper measuring ...
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The Conservatoire d’espaces naturels Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, the Parc Animalier de la Barben, and the Citadelle de Besançon are pleased to announce the birth of Primo, a beautiful baby Crau Plain Grasshopper measuring ...
Become a partner of the LIFE SOS Crau grasshopper Festival to be held on 13 October at the Domaine départemental des Aulnes!
Launched in 2021, the LIFE SOS Crau Plain Grasshopper project has reached the half-way stage at the start of 2024. On 27 and 28 February, the LIFE project team was visited by Gustavo Becerra Jurado from CINEA (the European executive agency ...
As part of the Life Crau grasshopper educational project, the Conservatoire d’espaces naturels Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur and the Parc animalier de La Barben are offering teachers two days of free activities aimed at ...
The LIFE SOS Crau grasshopper project team is delighted to present the second edition of its Newsletter.
Discover the key actions carried out in 2023 by the team and its partners.
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The farmer and his sheep occupying the Calissane site are heavily involved in providing the grasshoppers with optimum conditions for maintaining their population. Perrine Turiez, project manager at the Chambre d’agriculture ...
As part of the LIFE SOS Crau grasshopper project, the Chambre d’agriculture des Bouches-du-Rhône has conducted a study of nine grazing areas in order to analyse the practices used at two sites where the Crau Plain Grasshopper is ...
The Conservatoire d’espaces naturels de Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, La Barben Zoo and the Zoological Park of the Museum of Besançon have produced an educational kit to be used at local events to raise awareness among ...
Since last spring, the Ecomusée has been offering visitors the chance to take advantage of their visit to go in search of “Mr Crau Grasshopper”.
The Crau grasshopper is becoming increasingly popular, and there are many national and international requests for information on this unique insect. Lisbeth Zechner, LIFE SOS Crau grasshopper project manager at the Conservatoire ...
The Crau grasshoppers were busy at the start of the summer! Having become adults within a few weeks timeframe and after undergoing five moults, the grasshoppers from the three breeding stations (La Barben Zoological Park, Besançon Museum ...
For the second year in a row, shepherds were asked, on a voluntary basis, to monitor the insectivorous birds accompanying their flocks. Tasked with carrying out daily counts of cattle egrets and corvids in the field, we were able to rely ...
Finally you can observe them – for real! Or almost…
This spring, our team has prepared a whole programme to discover the Crau Plain Grasshopper
The first hatchings of Crau Plain Grasshopper in 2023 took place at the beginning of April and observations of the first juveniles are multiplying by the day!
She cuts, assembles, glues, paints and articulates pieces of paper. She sculpts organic figures, plants, animals, then animates them. Her works transpire a naturalist sensitivity at the “edge of the brush”.