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New forest reserve project... in Ile-de-France update

New forest reserve project... in Ile-de-France

Dear difteurs,

The advent calendar is synonymous at ETATS SAUVAGES with the launch of our new project in the Île-de-France region!

👉 After the creation of our first 5 forest reserves 🌳, the ETATS SAUVAGES team is once again mobilizing to protect an ecosystem threatened by galloping urbanization. This time, we're heading for the Île-de-France, a region where natural spaces are increasingly fragmented and nibbled away.

📍 In the heart of the Parc Naturel Régional du Gâtinais Français, this small forest of 2 hectares is a veritable ecological corridor. It links different natural habitats and plays a key role in the Trame Verte et Bleue.

Our project will take place in several parts. We'll start by sanctuarizing this 2-hectare islet, then plan to extend the reserve by acquiring neighboring plots.
December therefore marks the start of a new mobilization for biodiversity!

A big thank you for your invaluable advice and donations.

And 5!

Dear difteurs,
On October 14, 2024, we officially acquired 21 hectares of forest in the magnificent Larzac foothills. 🥳 This success is the fruit of a collective mobilization to preserve this unique ecosystem. 🙌
Thank you for your invaluable support! ✨
🌳 Why is this forest so special?
Located in a Natura 2000 zone, it protects the habitats of rare species such as the Short-toed Eagle, the Great Horned Owl and wood-boring beetles.It helps preserve ecological corridors, promoting species dispersal and adaptation to climate change.It's a forest with a beautiful diversity of environments: from limestone cliffs to the river below the valley, offering rich and varied habitats ️for many species.
Thanks to our donors and patrons, this area is becoming a new natural sanctuary. There are now 36 hectares spread over 5 forests 🌳 that the ETATS SAUVAGES association is protecting.
Without you, we couldn't continue our actions, please help us to go further together by spreading the word about the ETATS SAUVAGES association around you 📣

Immersion in the 3rd protected forest update

Immersion in the 3rd protected forest

In 2023, many of you supported our project, which enabled us to acquire a forest of over 3 ha located in a wetland. Like the other plots acquired by ETATS SAUVAGES, this natural area is left to evolve freely.
In order to get to know this forest better 🌳 part of the team visited the site in July 2024 to d'assess its Potential Biodiversity Index (PBI).
This stage of the Wild Forest project is crucial for us, as free evolution is intended to favor biodiversity, by letting nature manage itself.
On site, the members of Etats Sauvages have, for example, referenced tree species, the presence of dead wood, different aquatic environments, microhabitats... So many factors enabling us to understand the state of the forest in its development and the extent to which living things can thrive there.
For example, the plot is crossed by a river, which favors the presence of certain amphibians, but also numerous mammals and birds. Woodpecker holes were found on numerous occasions in the tree trunks, and a lot of dead wood on the ground - essential for certain saproxylic species - was observed. 
🔎 This first study has enabled us to gain a better understanding of this complex ecosystem, which differs from our other plots in the presence of several aquatic environments. A real advantage for accompanying certain species and participating sustainably in their preservation. 

Discovering the forest ecosystem... update

Discovering the forest ecosystem...

Your support helps us preserve the living in our forests by creating new reserves, but did you know that it has also enabled us to launch another project called MA FOREST IS ALIVE! to discover the forest ecosystem?
Concretely, we've developed a support brochure for the general public and a 3-hour workshop in the forest with the aim of discovering the key factors in hosting biodiversity. A time to enrich your knowledge, discuss current forestry practices, and better understand how to favor the living things that depend on them.
 
Eager to find out more? Go to www.etats-sauvages.org to find out about our upcoming events and become a guardian of best practices for the living world of our forests. 

New forest reserve project! update

New forest reserve project!

Thanks to you, the ETATS SAUVAGES association is already preserving nearly 15 hectares of forest 🌳  in France. 4 reserves have already been created in Cantal, Vosges and last year in Normandy and Ile-de-France. In 2024, we are embarking on a major new adventure, an ambitious project for our young structure  
We have the opportunity to acquire a large 21-hectare forest 🌳 in a particularly fragile area recognized for its rich biodiversity. Located in a Natura 2000 zone, on sloping ground, it is situated on the majestic "Larzac foothills" subtly blending Caussenard and Mediterranean influences. Its topography combines limestone cliffs with valleys carved out by the river, creating an ecosystem with a great diversity of environments. An imposing landscape, shaped by the deep, narrow valley of the Lergue, where the forest-covered slopes of the hillsides are home to a rich biodiversity particularly favorable to bats and birds of prey. 
👉 We'll be sure to keep you posted on the follow-up to this fine project.

A wild Pitch for associations!

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! 

Focus on the free evolution of forests by France 3 Bretagne update

Focus on the free evolution of forests by France 3 Bretagne

"We create spaces where man no longer intervenes". They buy forests to return them to a wild state.
 
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.

👀 2023 is behind us, long live 2024! 🙌 update

👀 2023 is behind us, long live 2024! 🙌

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? 😎 
To boost 2024, find us here: www.etats-sauvages.org 


Free evolution at the heart of national thinking update

Free evolution at the heart of national thinking

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.

ETATS SAUVAGES on the "En Forêt" podcast update

ETATS SAUVAGES on the "En Forêt" podcast

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" 

With this 4th forest, we're protecting nearly 15 hectares! update

With this 4th forest, we're protecting nearly 15 hectares!

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.

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Publication of an article in the newspaper Le Monde update

Publication of an article in the newspaper Le Monde

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.

Compromises signed! update

Compromises signed!

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.

A look back at 2022! update

A look back at 2022!

😍 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!

Towards the acquisition of a third forest update

Towards the acquisition of a third forest

Thanks to the support of patrons and the public, we now have the means to seek out our 3rd forest to protect. The ETATS SAUVAGES association has raised part of the funds needed to position itself for a new purchase. As in the Cantal and Vosges, these hectares will be returned to nature, preserving the carbon sinks already present and forest biodiversity. Your support is invaluable in making this new reserve a success, not only through your donations, but also by spreading the word about this project and sharing the small forests for sale with those around you.

In the Vosges, a second forest acquired by ETATS SAUVAGES update

In the Vosges, a second forest acquired by ETATS SAUVAGES

Following the acquisition of a first 5-hectare forest as part of the Forêt Sauvage project in 2021, the ETATS SAUVAGES association has finalized the acquisition of a second 4-hectare forest in the Vosges in spring 2022. An initial study visit was carried out in June, confirming the ecological interest of the plot, which is a mixture of coniferous and deciduous trees. Finally, in July, the team travelled to Cantal for another field trip to the first forest, to carry out a PBI (Potential Biodiversity Index) and identify tree-habitats. By the end of 2022, we hope to have raised enough funds to launch the research, acquisition and preservation of a 3rd forest in France.

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