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Protection and management sites

To adapt management sites for Corncrake, 8 actions are included in the programme:

• updated version of the management plan of the LPO acquisitions in the Basses Vallées Angevines ;
• Implementing a management plans for land purchased by the CEN Picardie in the framework of the programme ;
• Management agreements for the maintenance of grasslands
• Conversion of 13 hectares of old poplar into permanent grassland in the Basses Vallées Angevines
• Management of 2 hectares of reedbeds and tall grass prairies as refuge area
• Protection of the broods through the use of a scaring bar set on the mower which enable the Corncrake to escape from the engine.

  • Direct protection of nested by using a scaring bar
    19 February 2014, by Sophie Duhautois

    Direct protection of broods by the use of a scaring bar
    **Sites concerned
    The Basses Vallées Angevines, Moyenne Vallée de la Charente et Moyenne Vallée de l’Oise
    **Description
    Current operating conditions (earlier and faster mowing) no longer allow grassland species such as Corncrake to complete their breeding cycle and often cause direct destruction of broods when mowing. There is now an urgent need to establish effective protection tools such as scaring bar and develop this good practice. (...)

  • Restoration and management of grasslands
    19 February 2014, by Sophie Duhautois

    Management agreements for the maintenance of grasslands
    **Sites involved in the action
    The Basses Vallées Angevines and the Moyenne vallée de la Charente
    **Description
    The purchased parcels will be under management agreements or agro-environmental contracts with local farmers. The objective will be to seek voluntary farmers and help them to contract agri-environmental measures.
    **Expected results
    According to the number of plots, it is considered the signing of at least 10 agreements or (...)

  • Developping management plans
    19 February 2014, by Sophie Duhautois

    Updated version of the management of the LPO’s plots in the Basses Vallées Angevines
    **Objective
    This action is to provide a review and update the first management plan for the properties of the LPO in BVA incorporating new plots acquired under the LIFE+ programme.
    **Description
    A management plan has been partly developped for plots purchased by the LPO between 1995 and 2004 in the Basses Vallées Angevines (410 ha), which is to be updated. The previous management plan covered only 395 ha, (...)