BIODIVERSITY – Farmers and individuals install nesting boxes on their property to encourage the reproduction of little and barn owls, in the Nord and Pas-de-Calais regions
At the bedside of the owls. In the Nord and Pas-de-Calais, everyone is doing their bit to protect these boys what are owls and scares them. This week, a farm in Steenwerck, in the North, installed a nesting box on its property. She is one of 11 agricultural exploitations selected this year by the ornithological group of the North (GON) to participate in the operation “Welcome owls to our farms”.
It has been six years since the regional chamber of agriculture launched this European project which is gaining momentum at the local level. “We started with the Cambrésis, underlines Sophie Grassien, biodiversity advisor to the chamber. Today, 169 nesting boxes have been installed by 112 farmers, in a win-win approach”. Because owls have the advantage of regulating the population of small rodents, called “pests” in the agricultural world. A good auxiliary of culture, therefore.
A dozen occupied nesting boxes
So far, only about ten nesting boxes have actually been occupied by owls. “It will take a few more years to measure the evolution of these two species in the region”, continues the Chamber of Agriculture. Because farmers don(…) Read more at 20 minutes
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2023-05-14 07:51:10
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