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The tasks entrusted by the State

© Cévennes national Park - mapping work

The French Government has given the Cévennes national Park seven tasks, ranging from protecting and monitoring its territory, to raising public awareness of environmental protection and sustainable development, to advising and supporting local bodies.

• Monitoring the territory and providing environmental policing. Objective: to ensure that the central zone’s special regulations are complied with, to supervise human activities and to limit environmental damage;

 

• Scientific monitoring of the natural and cultural heritage. This includes establishing inventories of fauna and flora, mapping natural habitats, gathering data on cultural heritage (recording this heritage and collecting oral memories) and supporting research groups wanting to work in the Park;

 

• Providing advice and public engineering for both communities and individuals in the Park’s areas of expertise: architecture and sustainable town planning, managing biodiversity, ecotourism;

 

• Implementing or supporting developments aimed at preserving biodiversity, natural environments, vernacular architectural heritage and the Park’s landscapes. In this context, the Park may grant subsidies;

 

• Creating or supporting tourist infrastructure (walking trails, the design and publication of topographical guides, the introduction of signposts in natural habitats);

 

• Animating the area by organising the annual Nature Festival and participating in the Contes et rencontres Festival, and through sustainable-development education in primary and secondary schools;

 

• Producing books and exhibitions that showcase and explain the rich heritage of the Cévennes and Causses.

 

© Odile Rival

An exhibition at the Musée du Mont Lozère