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Running from 2010 to 2015, the programme Life+ Cap DOM aims to design and test new methods to understand, manage and protect birds and threatened habitats in French Guiana, Martinique and La Réunion, seeking those which could be shared and replicated in other overseas territories and (…)

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An exceptional site for studying the Guianan Cock-of-the-rock Bernard Perrin, a representative of the ONF (national forest office) particularly concerned with heritage issues, introduces us to the Kaw mountain area and the challenges it presents, whilst Marc Théry, a researcher with the CNRS (…)

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Having been working together for three years already on the local steering committee, each of the partners on Martinique explains to us its role in the project. Thanks to their different but complementary skills and the ways in which they have been working together, protection and conservation (…)

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The workshops whose aim is to set up activities to enhance the savannahs take place every two months, the most recent being held on May 7th at the Maison de la Nature of Sinnamary. Three hours of work to help nature and see what the possibilities are as far as improving the savannahs are (…)

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The Réunion Harrier, or 'Papangue' in Creole, is the only endemic raptor that breeds on the island of La Réunion. It is a species under threat, classed as 'Endangered' in the national Red List, that can suffer from secondary poisoning after having consumed rats. This poisoning manifests itself in (…)

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The online humanities and social science review «ethnographiques.org», a place where the many manifestations of social life can be exchanged and described, has recently uploaded its 27th edition entitled 'Biodiversité(S): Conserver, gérer, étudier la biodiversité : quels apports de l’ethnologie ?' (…)

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On March 19th, GEPOG hosted the first of a series of workshops whose aim is to prepare a plan to enhance the sympathetic development of the savannahs in the communes of Sinnamary and Iracoubo. These workshops will bring together the project's steering committee but are equally open to any of (…)

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At the moment, there is very little data on the abiotic (i.e. non-living) characteristics of the habitat of the White-breasted Thrasher, a species endemic to the Lesser Antilles and globally threatened. To determine the characteristics of the habitat better, teams from Life+ Cap DOM on (…)

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The staff of the Société d’Etudes Ornithologiques de la Réunion (SEOR) released a Réunion Harrier on the 3rd March after it had spent 22 days in their rescue centre. The female, weighing 715 g, had been poisoned after having eaten an item of prey (some sort of rodent) which clearly was also (…)

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Between the 5th and 20th December last, GEPOG, with the help of volunteers and staff from Elaguyane have been carrying out control measures on the Acacia mangium trees in the commune of Saint-Laurent du Maroni. Following the example of the actions put in place at the Maison de la Nature de (…)

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