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NEWS
: given to Marais du Vigueirat
Prize « MIREILLE »
Best Regional Innovant and Local Initiative
Ecodevelopment
Labellised
Regional Prize
of TOURISM INNOVATION
given by the PACA Region dans la catégorie Tourism
and Environment
Special Prize «
JEAN-ROLAND » 2008
given by RNF Réserves Naturelles de France and the Crédit
coopératif
Benvengudo
o
Marais du Vigueirat !
Come to immerse yourself in nature
Les Marais du Vigueirat
F 13104 Mas-Thibert
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contact :
Tel. 33 (0)4 90 98 70 91
Fax 33 (0)4 90 98 72 54
marais-vigueirat@espaces-naturels.fr
Nature
news
in the Marshes of Vigueirat
july-august, 2008
in summer, emancipations and 1th migrations,
already !
If in July numerous families are blowing up with the emancipation of all
young chicks which fly off and begin living their life (program is simple
: grow, take force and become autonomous before envisaging departures
to come), redshanks, northern lapwing, Ringed Plovers back from the north…
show us that the migration southward has already begun ! In august passages
intensify, with black kites and 1th storks, 1st paludicolous passerine…
Some flooded meadows and woods, a set of reed beds, sansouires and embankments, with vast stretches of water providing habitats for flamingos, terns, short and long beaks. It gives to wildlife and divers what everyone considers as a possession : be able to live in a world full of mosquitoes and larvaes, in a remote world where the tranquillity enables to smooth safely feathers and learn the first hunts.
Greeting
people
to the Marshlands of Vigueirat
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means
making a protected natural space accessible to everyone.
It is enabling the discovery of the Camargue nature, alone or in family,
with or without nature monitor : you can walk freely in the marshes and
flooded woods arranged for this purpose (3,5 km of trails and stilts)
or take advantage of accompaniments which are supplied by specialists
of Camargue nature and traditions and walk with them in the sanctuary
area or discover it with a horse drawn carriage, look out from the animal
observatories, birdwatch, crayfish fish…