Natura 2000

The Natura 2000 network

The aim of the Natura 2000 network is to contribute to preserving biological diversity in the European Union. It will ensure the maintenance or restoration in a favorable conservation status of natural habitats and habitats of species of flora and fauna of Community interest. It is composed of sites designated especially by each of the Member States in application of the European directives called "Birds" and "Habitats" of 1979 and 1992.

The project to preserve natural areas as part of Natura 2000 concerns the Rebenty valley The site of the Rebenty valley is a mountain and alpine site centered around the river and its watershed, offers a range of natural habitats on a large range at altitude and on various substrates (limestone, granite, shale). In particular, there are beautiful pine pine forests with hooks on acid soil. The river is a habitat for aquatic species (fish: Sculpin (Cottus gobio) and Barbeau (Barbus meridionalis), crustacean: Crayfish (Austropotamobius pallipes) and mammal: Desman (Photo).

Natura 2000 site in the Rebenty Valley

The Rebenty Valley site is a mountain and alpine type centered around the river and its watershed, offering a range of natural habitats over a wide altitudinal range and on various substrates (limestone, granite, shale). The river is a habitat for aquatic species (fish: Sculpin (Cottus gobio) and Barbeau (Barbus meridionalis), crustacean: Crayfish (Austropotamobius pallipes) and mammal: Desman (Galemys pyrenaicus)).

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The Rebenty is a tributary left bank of the Aude with marked torrential regime. The valley is remarkable first of all by the diversity of the substrates which offers a wide range of soils, then by climatic influences, Mediterranean downstream then mountainous Atlantic at the upstream. The rainfall and soil acidity gradients are therefore remarkable and largely explain the diversity and richness of the plant communities in the valley.