During a week of reinforced practical work in December 2020, the 1st year students in “Management of Natural Environments and Wildlife” from Riscle carried out arrangements conducive to the reproduction of the freshwater turtle, known as Cistude d ‘ Europe. Present in the Gers, and more particularly in humid and sunny places, the European Pond Turtle is a strictly protected species. The operation of the agricultural school of Mirande has the wet characteristics favorable to the development of the species thanks to its wetlands. It is these characteristics that the pupils of the 1st class of the Riscle high school have therefore developed on the Mirande site, as part of their program and practical activities. An agroecological project that the young people have taken up on their own within the framework of biodiversity, the theme of their training.
Beyond the preservation of fauna and flora, the students also carried out interventions favorable to farm animals. As such, they planted a hedge in the path of the black pigs of Bigorre, protecting them from the wind and the sun; so many actions that are more broadly part of a dynamic of landscape preservation. It was therefore a week rich in experience and sharing, a week which led the students to co-carry out this work with all the local actors, including the nature training of the CFPPA of Gers.
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