📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Do you know what owls, insects and bats have in common ? They all serve our environment! Come find out more in Le Créneau ! Located in the middle of nature, our hosting center provides a natural, well preserved and rich biodiversity. This biodiversity is the home to various remarkable species, who deserve to be protected and valued as such : bats, owls, mice, bugs, frogs, etc. Come to help us preserve those so called « undesirable » species, and contribute to bring awareness to the part they play in the local ecosystem. A great workcamp so sing along the frog\'s song ! Your actions will be in accordance with the objectives 5 and 12 of sustainable development (UN) in favor of gender equality and responsible consumption and production.
💼 What the programme involves
There will be multiple workshops along the workcamp so that everyone can participate in constructing houses and arrange places.
What to expect :
- Listening and observing sessions of nocturnal raptors with specific techniques
- Building of a birdhouse
- Building of a low wall using dry stone technique
- Building of a house for bats
- Renovation of the bugs\' hotel
- Planting honey seeds
The work will take place in the morning, from 8:30AM to 1PM, with a break of 30 minutes around 11AM.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Participants will be hosted on Le Créneau’s camping, within collective tents (5-6 per tents) with wooden floor and beds. WiFi is not available on site. Food will be provided and prepared by the participants in groups, in the castle’s kitchen with the support of the cooking staff.
📍 About the location
Montcombroux les Mines (45 kms away from Moulins). Afternoons and weekends are planned collectively with the group leaders. If you want to discover the cities around, Vichy and Moulins are 45 kms away. If you’d rather have a nice walk in nature, the surroundings are perfect for hiking, landscape seeing, discovering local markets, swimming, and enjoying sports activities and games.