They wore rubber boots, waterproof jacket, hat, headlamp, torches and landing nets: Saturday evening from 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m., after a very rainy afternoon, members of the Stop Val Béton collective braved rain and cold to carry out the annual inventory of amphibians in the fields and woods located opposite the farm of the community of communes of Val Briard (CCVB) in Chapelles Bourbon.
“It’s just extraordinary to observe nature.
We light up the areas where there is water and we see the newts jumping,” comments Guillaume Dartiguenave, member of the collective born in 2019.
The real objective was above all to confirm the existence of these protected species (frogs, toads, newts, salamanders, etc.), threatened according to them by the Val Bréon 2 project, 60 hectares of cultivated land in Châtres, on the other next to the railway line which separates them from Val Bréon 1, a 140 ha logistics park created in 2000 and boasting brands such as Ikea, Conforama, Castorama, etc.
The land of Val Bréon 2 could be reconverted into an economic activity.
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