Un parc entre Corse et Sardaigne

Archive of the program "Des Racines et Des Ailes: En Corse" broadcast on 11/04/2015. Full report "A park between Corsica and Sardinia". The International Marine Park is a unique site in Europe, stretching from southern Corsica to northern Sardinia. Created in 2012, it includes the Bouches de Bonifacio Nature Reserve, as well as coastal land acquired by the Conservatoire du Littoral. In Sardinia, the Maddalena archipelago is also part of this cross-border park, which spans both maritime and terrestrial areas. Dedicated men and women are working to protect this particularly sensitive environment. Marie-Laurore Pozzo di Borgo is a botanist. She takes us along one of the coastal paths, near Bonifacio. Along the way, we encounter rural heritage buildings, forgotten and rediscovered in the scrubland. Dry stone walls, lime kilns, and traditional shelters are now being reclaimed. Marie-Lorore also takes us to the Lavezzi Islands. A backdrop of granite chaos, where the botanist ensures the survival of endemic and fragile flowers and plants. We embark with Paul Peschet. He is in charge of the divers in the maritime zone of the Strait of Bonifacio. His mission for the day: to explore the underwater world to observe the great mother-of-pearl, the second largest shellfish in the Mediterranean. It lives among the Posidonia spp. and is now threatened by pleasure boats and pollution. The observation mission that day proves to be rich in emotion. Alessandro Mazzoleni is Italian and an ornithologist. In the Maddalena Archipelago National Park, north of Sardinia, we stop with him on the island of Santo Stefano. A colony of Audouin's gulls has found refuge there this year. Without the protection of its natural island habitat, where it feeds and nests, this gull would quickly become endangered. A report by Hélène Frandon, Jean-Christophe Hainaud, Réné Heuzey, Laurent Maisondieu, and Pascal Montagna Produced by: France 3 More information at http://www.france3.fr/emissions/des-r...