Tropicalia is the name of the future “largest tropical greenhouse in the world” which is to be built on 20,000 m2 in Pas-de-Calais, straddling Verton and Rang-du-Fliers, behind Berck Plage. It would be kept at a ventilated temperature of 26 ° C-28 ° C all year round and would offer its 500,000 expected visitors per year a unique immersion experience. Its promoters ensure that they want to make visitors aware of respect for nature and tropical biodiversity.
But that's without counting the GDEAM-62 environmentalists. Unsuccessful in their gracious appeal to the veterinarian Cédric Guérin, the project leader, and the mayors of the two municipalities who issued the building permit on October 22, they announced their intention to continue the fight: "We are working ardently with a collective of associations with a recourse before the administrative court ”specify Mariette Vanbrugghe and Marc Éverard, of GDEAM-62.
"Primitive ecology"
Their grievances concerning this project at 73 million euros, already funded for a third, are numerous: irrational management of the soil which serves here, according to them, private interests, foreseeable increase in road traffic which will involve works financed by the communities, review of a project combining zoo and amusement park, excessive energy consumption and geological risks due to underground cavities…
“We don't understand their position. They are closed to dialogue and have a conception of primitive ecology. Let them come and meet us, ”replies Nicolas Fourcroy, one of the founding partners, who puts forward a territorial project that will occupy a hundred direct and indirect jobs.
“We are not taking any land, Tropicalia will be 2 km from the A16 motorway. We have done soil surveys and the sphere will be moved. The first picks are expected in the spring, for an opening in the spring of 2022.
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