Label Bas Carbone Certified project
The project is an afforestation of species adepted to the local context of the Correziens plateaux, comprising a plantation of Common larch, Corsican Pine, Douglas fir and Sycamore maple. Most of the planting will be of native species, and will complement existing woodland areas. The deciduous borders and shrubbery surrounding the plot will be preserved, in order to maintain several layers of vegetation and encourage the maintenance of a homogenous landscape.
Saint-Exupéry-les-Roches, Corrèze (19), in the extension of nearby wooded areas
2,75 ha planted
Common larch, Corsican pine, Douglas fir, Sycamore maple.
About 4400 trees
The project is located in Saint-Exupéry-les-Roches in Corrèze, in the East of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region (formerly the Limousin)
Situated on the Ussel plateau (Plateaux Corréziens), the project is set against a backdrop of marked relief, carved out to the south by rivers. Here, our project is located in the heights of the Diège valley, flowing into the Dordogne. The landscape alternates between farmland and woodland, structured by hedgerows following the contours of the land. This is an area of transition, where mixed forests alternate with hedged farmland.
Our project, with its mixed species (coniferous and deciduous) and framed by existing wooded areas, extends the wooded environments while providing the necessary diversity of species.
Editions Auzou, together with Up2Green Reforestation, have contributed 751 tonnes of CO2 to the afforestation project in Saint-Exupéry-les-Roches. These will be verified at the end of the audit carried out 5 years after planting.
The Saint-Exupéry-les-Roches project is part of the Label Bas Carbone afforestation method, a certification examined and issued by the French Ministry for Ecological Transition (DREAL).
The wooded plot will be integrated into an existing sustainable management document, implemented on neighbouring plots: The owner has signed up 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 and mix species (coniferous and deciduous), including a majority of indigenous species. This diversity of species has a number of benefits:
The project is set in a setting of woodland and shrub borders. These different vegetation strata will be preserved:
Soil preparation is carried out using the open-pot technique: the soil is worked only where the future plants will be planted. This technique limits the disturbance to the soil and its richness, and greatly limits the loss of carbon from the soil as it is worked very little.
The forestry sector encompasses a wide range of occupations that cannot be relocated: forest managers, nurserymen, forestry 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.