📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Protect fauna and flora on the shores of the wonderful Salagou Lake by setting up protection means to secure biodiversity and environmental conservation.
The lake is listed by the Natura 2000 network and protected for the beauty of its landscapes and its important biodiversity. This site offers a beautiful setting in the heart of the Hérault county: lying at the foot of volcanic and red rocks hills, this area is one of the most symbolic landscapes of France and recognized all over the world for its geological characteristics.
The Natura 2000 label considers a surface of 13 000 hectares in the southeast of the lake. It hosts a large number of animal and vegetal breeds including about 20 species of birds which are endangered at the European level. These birds find their home environment in the diversity of the landscape, in the agricultural or grazed circles, on the cliffs or in the shores of the lake. To protect this rich biodiversity the Natura 2000 network set up measures to maintain the land characteristics and to reduce the use of phytosanitary products in vineyards. You will participate to the implementation of biodiversity protective measures nearby the lake.
💼 What the programme involves
You will clear and uproot the shores of the lake. You will also take part in setting up other protection measures to secure biodiversity and environmental conservation in the frame of the NATURA 2000 network.
🏠 Accommodation on site
In tents on the lake camping site. Tents will be provided but you can bring your own if you want. Bring a sleeping bag, camping mat and a pillow. You will participate to the preparation of meals in turns. We'll favour the local products and the short supply circuits.
📍 About the location
The Salagou Lake is located nearby Clermont l’Hérault in the Herault river valley, 40 km far from Montpellier city. For more information: www.lesalagou.fr
⚠️ Requirements
Take work clothes, closed shoes, warm clothes and a torch for evenings, protection against the sun (hat, glasses, sunscreen) and your nicest swim suit. You can also bring recipes from your home country, musical instruments and games. Foreigners belonging to the European Union must bring with them a personal EHIC (European Health Insurance Card), and everybody must, in any case, bring their insurance certificate. If health issues happen on the project, volunteers will have to pay for it, and then be reimbursed once back in their home country.
ℹ️ Additional information
Meeting point:
Clermont l’Hérault bus station. You can reach it from Montpellier train station.
Closest airport:
Montpellier, Marseille or Paris