To celebrate World Jaguar Day, OFB Guyane is highlighting the work of the Technical Knowledge Unit and its partners in monitoring this big feline.

As part of the UROS project, the ECLA "Ecosystèmes Lacustres" cluster has joined forces with the ECOCEAN company to design innovative devices to promote biodiversity in lake ecosystems. After 5 years of testing in real-life conditions, the initial results are encouraging.

In the fifth issue of "Biodiversité, des clés pour agir", the technical journal of the French Biodiversity Agency (OFB), Marie Motte, research engineer at INRAE and OFB details the National Plan for Diadromous Migrators.

The French Biodiversity Agency (OFB) and its partners fully achieved their objectives during the second data acquisition campaign for the Balearic shearwater (Puffinus mauretanicus), which took place in southern Brittany.

In July 2023, seven loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) hatchlings were counted on the French Mediterranean coast.

The French Biodiversity Agency (OFB), the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE), the Pyrenees and Mercantour National Parks, and their partners have published a study on the diet of common birds in the mountains. Using an innovative method, it characterizes the different diets of insectivorous birds according to the intensity of grazing on the sites they occupy.

The SAlmonid MAnagement Round the CHannel (SAMARCH) project ended on March 14 and 15, 2023 in Southampton (UK). This Franco-English project was designed to acquire new information in estuaries and coastal waters to improve the protection of our threatened wild salmon and sea trout.

Within the framework of the MIROMEN program, 11 whales were equipped with GPS tags in order to better understand their migratory flows.

The French biodiversity Agency (OFB) and the Bordeaux branch of the Central Office for the Fight against Environmental and Public Health Violations (OCLAESP) have dismantled a major international traffic in live animals of protected species. After months of investigation, four arrests were made on French territory, including a woman suspected of being the head of the trafficking network. Servals, parrots, monkeys, meerkats, squirrels... these species bought at low prices abroad were then resold via social networks, all over France.

The French biodiversity Agency (OFB) will be present this year at the COP 19 CITES as part of the French delegation. In collaboration with the French Ministry of Ecological Transition in charge of implementing CITES control, the OFB brings its expertise and technical knowledge in monitoring the various activities governed by the CITES Convention.