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Vallée de l'Orne et ses affluents

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Vallée de l'Orne et ses affluents translated as Orne Valley and tributaries is a Natura 2000 conservation area that is 2,115 hectares in size.

Geography

The area is focused on Orne and 3 of its main tributaries, the laize, the Noireau and the Rouvre, as they flow through the different landscapes of Norman Switzerland. These landscapes range from deep gorges, torrential or slow-flowing rivers, wet meadows, alluvial forests, escarpments, scree slopes, siliceous ledges, enclosed woods and hedgerows.

It is spread across 21 different communes all within the departments of Orne and calvados;

  1. Athis-Val de Rouvre
  2. Berjou
  3. Bretteville-sur-Laize
  4. Le Bô
  5. Cahan
  6. Clécy
  7. Cossesseville
  8. Fresney-le-Puceux
  9. Les Isles-Bardel
  10. Ménil-Hermei
  11. Ménil-Hubert-sur-Orne
  12. Le Mesnil-Villement
  13. Pierrefitte-en-Cinglais
  14. Pont-d'Ouilly
  15. Putanges-le-Lac
  16. Rapilly
  17. Saint-Denis-de-Méré
  18. Saint-Omer
  19. Saint-Philbert-sur-Orne
  20. Saint-Rémy
  21. Le Vey


Conservation

The conservation area has seventeen species listed in Annex 2 of the Habitats Directive;

  1. Eurasian otter
  2. European bullhead
  3. Cottus perifretum
  4. Brook lamprey
  5. Sea lamprey
  6. Atlantic salmon
  7. White-clawed crayfish
  8. Freshwater pearl mussel
  9. Jersey tiger
  10. Western barbastelle
  11. Greater horseshoe bat
  12. Lesser horseshoe bat
  13. Geoffroy's bat
  14. Bechstein's bat
  15. Greater mouse-eared bat
  16. European stag beetle
  17. Orange-spotted emerald

In addition the Natura 2000 site has eighteen habitats protected under the Habitats Directive.

References

  1. "La vallée de l'Orne et ses affluents | valleeorneaffluents". valleeorneaffluents.n2000.fr.
  2. ^ "INPN - FSD Natura 2000 - FR2500091 - Vallée de l'Orne et ses affluents - Description".
  3. "Vallée de l'Orne et ses affluents" (PDF) (in French). Ministre de la Transition écologique.
  4. ^ "EUNIS -Site factsheet for Vallée de l'Orne et ses affluents". eunis.eea.europa.eu.
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