#TECT2611964ASomail Peatlands Biological Reserve Expanded and New Management Plan Approved
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The order expands the Somail Peatlands directed biological reserve in Hérault from 26.56 hectares to 38.36 hectares and approves its management plan for 2024-2033. The reserve covers specific forest parcels in the Somail state forest, across the communes of Le Soulié and Riols. The practical effect is stronger conservation management for peatlands, streams, wetlands, and associated rare species in the Haut Languedoc. The plan allows restoration and maintenance work such as hydraulic restoration, tree cutting, mowing, grazing, removal of non-native species, public access works, fire-prevention equipment, and regulated hunting of ungulates where needed to protect ecosystem balance. Feeding or attracting game is banned inside the reserve and its transition parcels.
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Key Changes
- Expands the Somail Peatlands biological reserve from 26.56 hectares to 38.36 hectares.
- Approves the reserve management plan for the 2024-2033 period.
- Allows targeted ecological restoration, maintenance, public access, fire-prevention, and wildlife regulation measures while banning game feeding or attraction.
Obligations
What this law requires
Manage the designated parts of the Somail state forest biological reserve in accordance with the approved 2024-2033 management plan.
Carry out restoration and maintenance operations in the reserve, including hydraulic restoration, tree cutting, mowing, grazing, vegetation removal, or peatland stripping, only in accordance with the approved management plan.
Conduct studies in the reserve only if they are provided for in the management plan or have been previously authorized by the Office national des forêts.
Public-access works, safety works, trail or road maintenance, perimeter maintenance, fire-prevention equipment works, and legally required brush-clearing works in the reserve must be carried out in accordance with the approved management plan.
Eliminate non-native plant or animal species in the reserve only as an action carried out in accordance with the approved management plan.