As part of the implementation of the National Action Plan for the Balearic Shearwater, the French biodiversity agency (OFB) and its partners have successfully carried out a monitoring operation of this species in southern Brittany.

On Tuesday 7 June 2022, the French Office for Biodiversity (OFB) signed a partnership agreement in order to strengthen exchanges between South Africa and France in the field of biodiversity protection.

The interreg funding of the CARI'MAM project ended on 30 November. Assessment and prospects after more than 3 years of work.

To refine and simplify population monitoring, traditional counting methods can now be supplemented by the use of drones.

The Temporal Monitoring of Common Birds (STOC) programme has been surveying French birdlife according to a protocol performed every year by a network of volunteer ornithologists throughout the country for over 30 years. The summary report that just been produced confirms that too many species have sharply declined over the last three decades

Eaufrance, the public water information service, is offering a new thematic site dedicated to the economy of the water sector : Economie EauFrance

In July 2021, the 6th Gombessa expedition led by Laurent Ballesta investigate strange circular fomations

The French wheat and other cereal growers’ association (AGPB) and the French Biodiversity Agency (OFB) have drawn up guidelines for enhancing biodiversity in cultivated fields.

Monitoring chemical pollution is a critical issue for the preservation of aquatic ecosystems and water quality. PFOS, a perfluorinated compound, highly persistent in the environment, is one of the highest-priority pollutants in the context of the WFD – Water Framework Directive – and must be monitored in aquatic environments, particularly in fish. Further to developing a methodology for monitoring contaminants in rivers focused on gammarids, small crustaceans sensitive to changes in their environment, the INRAE and the OFB have developed and tested an approach using these crustaceans to predict the contamination of fish. A feasibility study(1), published in ″Environmental Sciences Europe″, reveals that measuring the concentration of PFOS in captive gammarids accurately predicts that the environmental quality standard threshold of the compound has been exceeded.