Low Carbon Label certified project
The Project is a woodland in the Landes, more precisely in the Adour region in the south of the Department. This is a vast area of successive hillsides and hedged farmland, contrasting with the iniformity of the Landes massif.
Located on a former agricultural plot, it borders on an existing forest and complements it. The plantation is made up of Loblolly Pine. It is complemented by hardwood borders of Sessile Oak and Hornbeam planted as a diversification, to encourage biodiversity but also to limit the spread of pests and fires.
Mant, Landes (40), in the Adour region
6,4 ha planted
Loblolly Pine, Sessile oak, Hornbeam
About 8896 trees
The target species for the project is Loblolly Pine, a species that grows in well-drained soils, as is the case for our project. It has better wind resistance than Maritime pine thanks to its roots system, and is more resistant to the trunk borer (a lepidopteran insect) and to bent rust (a fungus).
Sessile oak and Hornbeam are planted at the edge of the plot, along a path. These deciduous species hel to improve the landscape and are refuges and sources of food for wildlife. Above all, these leafy borders will help to limit the spread of insect pests, as well as limiting the risk of fire spreading. Although less sensitive to fire than the Landes Massif, the Adour, like other regions, must take these risks into account in the context of climate change.
Editions Auzou, together with Up2Green Reforestation, have contributed 1,416 tonnes of CO2 to the afforestation project in Mant. These will be verified at the end of the audit carried out 5 years after planting.
The Mant project is part of the afforestation methode of the Low Carbon Label, a certification examined and issued by the Ministry of Ecological Transition (DREAL).
The wooded parcel will be the subject of a sustainable management document to be created: Thanks to the funding, the owner will adhere to a Code of Good Forestry Practice, introduced by the Centre National de la Propriété Forestière (CNPF).
The aim of our project is to diversify the species planted, including the creation of hardwood borders:
The project fits into an existing wooded landscape. We are therefore going to preserve the leafy and shrubby borders around the plot. These areas are places of biodiversity to be preserved, but also strands of vegetation to be retained to maintain a more diversified landscape.
The soil for our project will be prepared by subsoiling the planting lines only. This preparation is necessary in view of the settling caused by the former agricultural activity, but we are limiting it to the lines to be plantef, in to disturb the soil as little as possible.
The forestry sector encompasses a wide range of occupations that cannot be relocated: forest managers, nurserymen, foretry work companies (loggers and forest operators in the future). The wood processing industry in France also encompasses a wide range of trades right through to the manufacture of the finished product.