Low Carbon certified project
The project is an afforestation of 7 different species at Val-Couesnon in Ille-et-Vilaine (Brittany). These species will be planted on a former agricultural plot alongside a river (the Loisance). The project is emblematic of this land-and-sea department, where it is helping to preserve the ecological continuity formed by hedged farmland and wooded areas, and to preserve the quality of water resources (watercourses and water catchments).
Val-Couesnon, Ille-et-Vilaine (35), along the river Couesnon
3,38 ha planted
Sessile oak, Small-leaved Lime, Douglas fir, Hornbeam, Coastal Redwood, Crab Apple, Wild pear.
About 6090 trees
The project is located in Val-Couesnon in Ille-et-Vilaine, in te east of Brittany.
The department is the most "terrestrial" in Brittany, and forms a transition between Normandy and western Brittany. More specifically, our project is located on an ecological continuum between the the Bay of Mont-Saint-Michel and the interior. It is a linear corridor between the coast and inland.
As far as the green belt is concerned, our project will help to maintain continuity between hedgerows and woodland, with the addition of a wode variety of tree species.
In addition, the river Couesnon, which runs alongside our project, flows into the Bay of Mont-Saint-Michel. So the choice of tree species and their planting helps to preserve the aquatic environment. What's more, planting trees close to agricultural areas helps to improve water quality, which is all the more important here as the project is located within the projection perimete of a water catchment.
Editions Auzou, together with Up2Green Reforestation, have contributed 403 tonnes of CO2 to the Val-Couesnon afforestation project. These will be verified at the end of the audit carried out 5 years after planting.
The Val-Couesnon 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 parcel will be the subject of a sustainable management document to be created: Once the funding has been set up, 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 tree species, including a majority of hardwood an native species:
The project is part of a bocage landscape. We will therefore be preserving the leafy and shrubby borders between the various plots.
Above all, the borders along the river Couesnon will be preserved.
The 6% of resinous species must be planted more than 10 m from this watercourse.
The project is located within the sensitive protection perimeter of a water catchment. The planting work complies with the requirements of the decree creating the protection perimeter (validated by the Agence Regionale de Santé).
In fact, afforestation is more favourable to aquatic environments than certain agricultural activites using inputs. It is therefore more likely to improve water quality for the water catchment in the immediate vicinity.
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.