Wild forests to protect life

Boosting projects that do good for the planet, that's the helping hand of Frédéric Mazzella's Pioneers program on BFM Business. And on May 17, 2024, ETATS SAUVAGES took the spotlight! 
Sophie, an ultra-committed volunteer came to defend our colors and actions in favor of forests 🌳 in 1min30: quite a challenge! 💪 

It's obviously [much] too short to get across everything we do at ETATS SAUVAGES to preserve biodiversity 🌾🦊🦇🐝🌳🍄 
It's also a fascinating exercise that forces us to condense and get back to the heart of our mission: 
📌 Raising awareness of today's major environmental issues 
📌 Protecting the living in our forests 🌳 [but not only] 
 

See you on BFM Business in the program Les Pionniers to discover the pitch! 

 

The action of the association ETATS SAUVAGES in the spotlight in an article by France 3 Bretagne. We are acting collectively to restore the living in our woods  🌳 and your support helps us to multiply our impact on the ground tenfold by giving us concrete backing.

 

👉 The article is to be discovered (and shared without moderation) in the March 9 edition.

More than ever, the heart of ETATS SAUVAGES' mission is to act and raise awareness for the biodiversity of French forests 🌳 🦉 🦊 🕷 🦔 🍄  And it's much needed in light of the many threats impacting it more and more every day.

💪 Determined, our volunteer team is mobilized to reinforce its impact on all fronts. In just a few figures, here's a look back at our fourth year of activity:

📌 100 Blog articles, 78 workshops and field trips and 17 webinars have been produced since 2019. 

📌 50, that's the number of volunteers who have been involved in communicating, managing, developing and raising awareness. They were backed by the support of our 141 members.

📌 14.5 ha of freely evolving forests, that's the area we now protect in Cantal, Vosges, Normandy and Ile-de-France. Four reserves for biodiversity that have come into being thanks to our donors and patrons. 

🙏 Finally, a big thank you to all our captains and the Captain Cause team who have provided very concrete support for our actions 👉 We're starting the year with energy and enthusiasm to take on new challenges. Are you with us? 😎 

ETATS SAUVAGES participated in the seminar on free evolution organized by the IUCN French Committee in partnership with the Commission Nationale Française pour l'UNESCO on January 8 and 9.
 🔎 These days provided an opportunity to bring together the players working on this subject: forest managers, those responsible for natural areas, scientists, nature protection associations... The first day presented the subject from different angles: scientific, legal, philosophical. The second day was devoted to practical workshops on the practical implementation of free evolution zones. This symposium, which brought together more than 400 remote and face-to-face participants, also aimed to create synergies to advance these reflections  🌳🦉 🐍 🦋 🦇 🌾🌳
 👉 An essential highlight to publicize and promote this practice in favor of biodiversity that the association implements in its forest reserves 🌳
FOR READING: the final declaration signed between IUCN and UNESCO.

The podcast "En Forêt" of the Le Zéphyr media extends its microphone to the citizens who are fighting for the forests 🌳
🔎 For this 35-minute episode, Julie de Saint Blanquat, founder of États Sauvages, looks back at the current issues facing the French forestry world and the actions taken by the association. A spotlight on our approach to preservation through the acquisition of forests left to evolve freely. To be shared without moderation! 🤩
▶️  Discover the podcast "En Forêt" 

One forest🌳 can hide another! 🤩 In 2023, thanks to your commitment, we were able to protect a second forest of 1.2 hectares.

It's located in the massif de Fontainebleau (Ile-de-France) renowned for its remarkable 🐌 🌿 🐜 🐸 animal and plant biodiversity. A site that is home to a great diversity of habitats (notably linked to sandy soils and rock formations), such as forests, moors, meadows, watercourses and wetlands, creating ecological niches for numerous species. 
The Etats Sauvages association now owns 4 forests in France with a total surface area of 14.5 hectares, left to evolve freely. 

🙏 Thanks to the donations of patrons and the support of captains, the Etats Sauvages association is thus pursuing its ambition to protect the Living, by creating veritable refuges and sanctuaries for animal and plant species.

Cet été a eu lieu la signature oficielle de l'acquisition par ETATS SAUVAGES d'une troisième forêt en Normandie (3,4 ha) ✏️
Composée d’essences 🌳​ de feuillus (frênes, aulnes, bouleaux, châtaigniers...), cette parcelle est intégrée dans une étendue boisée installée sur un ​💧​🌿​🌺​ ​ancien marais localisé dans​ le Perche, en Basse-Normandie. Cette zone humide se situe sur la ligne de partage des eaux entre la ​🌊 ​Manche et l’Atlantique, qui donne naissance à plusieurs cours d’eau et fleuves.
Située en zone ​Natura 2000, la forêt que nous préservons désormais est déjà reconnue pour son intérêt écologique pour abriter 🐸​🐜​​🐟​🦋 une faune et 🌷🌼​🍄​ une flore variées. La Basse-Normandie est riche de nombreuses espèces et de milieux très différents, une biodiversité dite « ordinaire » qu’il convient également de ​préserver au-delà des espèces remarquables.
Un très grand MERCI à nos captains-mécènes qui ont soutenu le financement de cette nouvelle réserve forestière 🌳💦

Etats Sauvages is co-signatory to an opinion piece published in the newspaper Le Monde with Coordination Libre Evolution on the issue of forests and fires 🌳🔥

While beyond a certain strength of fire 🔥 all forests burn, diverse natural forests are more resilient. We believe it is urgent to take these factors into account in fire management and to encourage silvicultural practices that respect biodiversity, particularly in terms of the legal obligation to clear brushwood to avoid moving towards a dramatic impoverishment of our forests. Just as it is essential to preserve a special status for nature reserves.
The article can be found online in the August 17, 2023 edition.

Our project is moving forward! 😍🌳
Grâce au soutien de mécènes et des Captains, l'association ETATS SAUVAGES a pu négocier et signer les compromis d'achat de deux nouvelles forêts ! However, nothing is certain yet, as we need to purge the priority rights (pre-emption) of the SAFER and neighbors who may call these acquisitions into question 🌳 🌳 🌳 It will be several months before we validate these projects, and of course we'll keep you informed.
In parallel, we're off in search of a next forest 🌳🦉 🐍 🦋 🦇 🌾🌳 to preserve and need your support 🤝 to continue our actions 💪

🙏 A huge THANK YOU to all the Captains, donors and patrons who support this fine citizen adventure.

😍 Already 10 hectares of #forests 🌳 🌳 🌳 returned to nature 🌍 

 

👉 After a 1st #forest acquired in Cantal in 2021, the year 2022 saw the protection of a further 4 hectares in the Vosges. At Etats Sauvages, what mobilizes us 🙌 is first and foremost preserving this threatened living thing around us 🦉 🐍 🦋 🦇 🌾 And 2023 is off to a great start with 2 new reserve projects to come... 👁️‍🗨️ We'll tell you more very soon! 

 
🙏 A huge THANK YOU to all the Captains, donors and patrons who have enabled us to multiply our means of action by 3.

 

🤝 Although very young, ETATS SAUVAGES embodies one of the multiple eco-citizen movements mobilized - on its own scale - to convert ecoanxiety 👀 into action 💪🌈 
A huge THANK YOU to all these precious energies that give us faith in the future and contribute to changing the world 🌎 on their own scale!