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Wild deposits, spreading pesticides ... These "sentinels of nature" who watch over the environment

2020-08-12T15:25:04.315Z


DECRYPTION - An application allows to report and geolocate degradations and offenses. Farmers feel stigmatized.


Unauthorized dumping of rubble on the edge of fields or forests, illegal uprooting of hedges, spraying of pesticides, inappropriate installation of wind turbines or pollution of a water course… These are all examples of environmental damage and inconvenience visuals that any motorist or hiker could see during a country walk.

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While some remain indifferent to these degradations, others do not know how to ensure that these acts do not happen again and that the damage is repaired. The environmental protection association France Nature Environnement (FNE) has thought of these. Little by little, it is spreading across France an application for smartphones called Sentinelle de la nature. It is already accessible in eight regions. It is in Occitania that we note the most reports, for the moment.

"Promote good practices"

This application can be used in particular by followers of walking, more than three quarters of whom have a

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Source: lefigaro

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