Haute Vallée de la Touques et affluents

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Haute Vallée de la Touques et affluents translated as the Upper Touques valley and tributaries is a Natura 2000 conservation area that is 1,400 hectares in size.[1]

Geography

The area is a very hilly, shaped by the rivers which dug their beds into the limestone formations of the Cenomanian geological layer.[1] The area features a mix of Beech-oak forests, dry limestone hillsides and also contain bat caves.[2]

It is spread across 11 different communes within the Orne department and a single commune within the Calvados department;[1]

  1. Aubry-le-Panthou
  2. Avernes-Saint-Gourgon
  3. Le Bosc-Renoult
  4. Canapville
  5. Gouffern en Auge
  6. Livarot-Pays-d'Auge
  7. Montreuil-la-Cambe
  8. Pontchardon
  9. Roiville
  10. Saint-Gervais-des-Sablons
  11. Sap-en-Auge
  12. Ticheville

Conservation

The conservation area has ten species listed in Annex 2 of the Habitats Directive;[3]

  1. European bullhead
  2. Cottus perifretum
  3. Atlantic stream crayfish
  4. Marsh fritillary
  5. Western barbastelle
  6. Bechstein's bat
  7. Geoffroy's bat
  8. Greater mouse-eared bat
  9. Greater horseshoe bat
  10. Lesser horseshoe bat

In addition the Natura 2000 site has 7 habitats protected under the Habitats Directive.[3]

References

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