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One of the supplementary activities of Life+ Cap DOM is the creation in each area of an on-line database of observations made by naturalists. Following the model of 'Faune Nature', which has been developed in metropolitan France by the LPO, this platform allows anyone to upload their (…)

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From 27th to 29th October the second Life+ Cap DOM seminar was held in Cayenne. It was an occasion to make an interim assessment of the programme and to bring together various associations, institutions and other participants, including those from the private sector. For further information, (…)

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Under the Life+ Cap DOM framework, SEOR has been given the task of identifying a network of sites of ornithological interest. As the EU 'Birds & Habitats' Directive is not applicable in the overseas territories, the Natura/Habitats 2000 framework does not exist here. So, through this (…)

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On March 24th, the working group on promoting the savannas met for a final workshop (number 6!) at the Maison de la Nature of Sinnamary. The participants met the sound director in charge of creating the recordings to be used along the trail, sounds to accompany the physical structures put in (…)

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On March 18th, the designer in charge of the savannas discovery trail, the project leader from GEPOG and a guide from the SEPANGUY association outlined the concept of the discovery trail during an out-of-school meeting in the village of Bellevue. The sixteen children were thus able to (…)

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On February 12th, participants in the workshops that are constructing a plan to enhance the savannas met at the Maison de la Nature of Sinnamary to discuss progress with the designer. He is the person in charge of bringing the project to fruition, a project which has been in planning during the (…)

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Some BTS GPN students review the status of acacia mangium As part of the Life+ Cap DOM programme, GEPOG is collaborating with the BTS GPN of the agricultural college of Matiti, with the aim of protecting the grassland savannas. Matthieu Delfault, a teacher at LEGTPA, summarises the value of (…)

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Since 2011, teams from SEOR and Reunion National Park, accompanied by the LPO and MNHN, have adapted the Suivi Temporel des Oiseaux Communs (STOC) point count survey for La Réunion, under the Life+ Cap DOM programme. Undertaking this survey allows us, in the long-term, not only to add to our (…)

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From 27th to 29th October, the seminar 'Overseas natural heritage', organised by GEPOG, took place at the regional administrative offices in Cayenne. It allowed an interim review to be made of the Life+ Cap DOM programme, involved the local partners, and created some useful exchanges between (…)

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The dry savannas of French Guiana are a scarce and threatened habitat. Marianne Palisse, an anthropologist at the University of Antilles-Guyane who is working with GEPOG on the link between man and the cultural landscape, shows us the significance of such an approach and some of its (…)

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