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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

Grasshopper more real than nature !?

Published: Mai 11 2023

Finally you can observe them – for real! Or almost…

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Communicating and raising awareness

Spring 2023: event season!

Published: Mai 05 2023

This spring, our team has prepared a whole programme to discover the Crau Plain Grasshopper

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Breeding and reintroduction

First hatchings 2023

Published: Avril 24 2023

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!

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Communicating and raising awareness

Didactic and artistic objects for the Crau Plain Grasshopper

Published: Avril 14 2023

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”.

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