France: Baie de l'Aiguillon - les mizottes
Site fact file
Natura 2000 Ambassador for the Natura Network Initiative... Representative of Office National de la Chasse et de la Faune Sauvage
Emmanuel Joyeux
 
Country France
Natura 2000 site location Poitou-Charentes - Pays de la Loire
Nearest urban settlement La Rochelle
Official site name/s Baie de l'Aiguillon - les mizottes
Unofficial but locally accepted name/s for the site Les mizottes
Natura 2000 site number FR5200659 + FR5410100
Size of site (hectares) 1100 ha
Key Species types Anser anser
Branta bernicla
Anas penelope
Anas strepera
Anas acuta
Anas platyrhinchos
Anas crecca
Limosa limosa
Limosa laponica
Luscinia svecica
Emberiza schoeniclus
Key management issues Water bird populations and habitats conservation

 

Natura Network Agreements
Organising at least one Green Days event per year "Coordination of a farmers working group. Creation of a Permanent display and + information leaflet Environmental sensibilisation aiming at scools of the concerned communes".
Involving local stakeholders in the management planning process - creating a local area partnership

The « mizottes » : an area protected, shared and managed (PDF, 4.5 Mb)

Les mizottes : un espace protégé, partagé et géré (PDF, 4.5 Mb)

Branding Natura 2000 Today's local situation doesn't allow to directly promote Natura 2000, even if the actions undertaken are precisely answering Natura 2000 objectives and preoccupations.
Agreeing to become an NNi ambassador Emmanuel Joyeux (Office National de la Chasse et de la Faune Sauvage) emmanuel.joyeux(a)oncfs.gouv.fr is an NNi Ambassador.

 

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For further info
Site contact Emmanuel Joyeux (Office National de la Chasse et de la Faune Sauvage) emmanuel.joyeux(a)oncfs.gouv.fr
Website www.baie-aiguillon.reserves-naturelles.org