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Follow the GEPOG « savannahs » team in their work in the field. Digging the soil, analysing the landscape, identifying plants and birds, all early in the morning as soon as the sun has risen – this is has been their daily routine over the past few months of working for the LIFE+ Cap DOM (…)

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It’s during the middle of the White-throated Thrasher's breeding season that the action unfolds ... A team made up of representatives of the various partners (LPO, Regional Nature park of Martinique, Le Carouge, AOMA) works its way through the Caravelle forest searching for nests, new or (…)

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As part of the team of Life+ Cap DOM working for the Réunion Cuckoo-shrike, experience a typical day in the field at the Roche Écrite reserve. This video allows you to share a real slice of life with the SEOR and LPO teams, starting at dawn (5 am), incorporating the long hike to the haunts of (…)

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Réunion Island, also known as Bourbon Island, was once covered in forests "From where the waves are beating to the tops of the mountains", according to an historical expression. Marc Salamolard, wildlife project-leader for the Réunion National Park, enthusiastically brings to life the world of (…)

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The Roche Écrite National Nature Reserve covers nearly 3,600 hectares of Réunion Island. Incorporated in 2007 to the National Park it is home to all the island’s endemic birds and also to a long list of exotic species, including the very rare Réunion Cuckoo-shrike (the "Tuit-tuit"), for which the (…)

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Between April 21st and 23rd, a team of six people went by helicopter to the Marais de Kaw-Roura Nature Reserve, to equip three Agami Herons with Argos transmitters. An internet platform integrated to the Life+ Cap DOM website to follow the herons’ movements has already been announced on this (…)

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Life+ Cap DOM databases of information and reproduction are now on-line. They allow free access to a list of bird species by commune and by place-name, with their protection and conservation status. As well as being effective tools for recording and information analysis for people working on (…)

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Between 21st and 23rd of April 2012, a team of six people left by helicopter to the floating platforms in the marshes of the Marais de Kaw-Roura Nature Reserve. The objective was to catch three Agami Herons and equip them with Argos transmitters to follow their movements in the upcoming year. A (…)

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The first action of the programme looked to try to use new technologies to test the methods of identification and "localisation" of the species’ habitats already noted. This method was to be used to refine our knowledge of the requirements of the White-breasted Thrasher so the different sites it (…)

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At the end of March, SEOR and the Réunion National Park welcomed two representatives of the European Commission on their first visit to an overseas department. This was an important moment, for you must not forget that since the DOMs became eligible to join the LIFE+ Biodiversité programme in (…)

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