#TECT2611963ACreation of the Vau des Loups Strict Biological Reserve in Meuse
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This order creates a 75.60-hectare strict biological reserve in the Sommedieue state forest in Meuse and approves its first management plan for 2025-2044. The reserve is meant to let forest ecosystems evolve naturally, protect biodiversity, and support scientific knowledge.
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Key Changes
- Creates a 75.60-hectare strict biological reserve in the Sommedieue state forest
- Approves the reserve management plan for 2025-2044
- Bans forestry operations and most human interventions, with limited exceptions for safety, access, hunting regulation, invasive species control, fire prevention, and legal clearing duties
Obligations
What this law requires
Manage the designated parts of the Sommedieue state forest within the RBI de la Vau des Loups in accordance with the approved 2025-2044 management plan.
Do not carry out forestry exploitation within the RBI de la Vau des Loups.
Do not carry out human interventions in the RBI that could modify the composition, structure, or functioning of natural habitats, unless the intervention is one of the expressly permitted actions under the reserve management plan.
When tree cutting is carried out for authorized safety or maintenance works in the RBI, leave the resulting cut tree products within the reserve, unless directional felling is impossible.
Limit ungulate population regulation by hunting in the RBI to the purpose of preventing ecosystem imbalance, under modalities set by the Office national des forêts.