Les oiseaux, le Parc et les agriculteurs de l'isthme du Cotentin

Abstract

Birds, the Park and farmers in the Cotentin Under the policy for protecting the Cotentin and Bessin marshlands in France, areas have been marked off so as to conserve the habitats of certain species, in particular of fowl. Attention is focused on this construction in an environment which bears a history and a complex set of social relations, and where farmers' actions are of fundamental importance. The application of EU Article 19 to these wetlands helps us to understand the debates sparked by the fixing of objectives and by specific practices. As a product and producer of this agri-environmental measure, the Regional Natural Marshlands Park plays, locally, a role of mediation. The emergence of this institution is analyzed in an area whose emblem has become nature.