
Grasshopper more real than nature !?
Finally you can observe them – for real! Or almost…
Due to its scope, the surface area of priority habitats concerned and its duration, the successful implementation of LIFE SOS Crau Grasshopper project requires the information, collaboration and support of many stakeholders.
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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.
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).
WWF France, BMW France – test centre, Dépôt de munitions EPMu Miramas, Conseil départemental des Bouches-du-Rhône, Conservatoire du littoral.
MINARM, EPMu Miramas, Base aérienne 125, MINARM zone de terre Sud.
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.
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.
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”.