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.

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.

Environmental inspectors from the French Biodiversity Agency carried out searches as part of an investigation into the death of a Bonelli's eagle, a rare and protected species. They have seized insecticide products that may have been responsible for the death.

CM2 pupils from the Louis Pasteur school in Wimereux - accompanied by the Communauté d'Agglomération du Boulonnais (CAB) - are promoting good practices to protect gravelots and their habitat. They are helping to set up a temporary quiet zone in the Slack estuary.

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

To better understand the functioning of Common Bottlenos Dolphins in Iroise sea, a genetic study was launched in partnership with the National Museum of Natural History, an opportunity to test a new protocol with little impact on the animals.