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Farming and grazing
Farming and grazing activities help to maintain open spaces of important heritage, landscape quality and biodiversity. It is one of the major challenges for the Cévennes National Park to keep agriculture dynamic without sacrificing ecology and heritage. There are about 400 farms operating in the Park’s central zone.
Farming and grazing in the Park’s central zone
Agriculture uses a quarter of the surface area of the Park’s central zone. On the Causses, cans and Mont Lozère, agricultural activity levels are being maintained and are even increasing. In the Cévennes, on Mont Aigoual and the Bougès massif, on the other hand, farming and grazing continue to decline.
The National Park’s agricultural policy
The Park’s agricultural policy gives priority to maintaining agricultural practices which manage surfaces of great environmental interest: heath land, pastures and short-grass prairies. These are surfaces whose productivity tends to be low.