Parc naturel régional de Camargue

Protected area in Camargue, France

The Parc naturel régional de Camargue is a protected area which was designated in 1970 along the shoreline of the Camargue, France.^[1] The park protects a wetland environment and an adjacent marine area. The boundaries of the park have been expanded to include a lagoon called the Étang de Vaccarès.

The Camargue is also the site of a national nature reserve, and has been designated by UNESCO as a biosphere reserve.^[2]

Twinning

The park is twinned with a Spanish wetland, the Doñana National Park at the mouth of the Guadalquivir. The two parks share a number of characteristics including significance for bird-life and semi-feral horses, and proximity to a pilgrimage site (Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer and the Hermitage of El Rocío).^[3]

In 1992, the site was formally twinned with the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve Ramsar site by an agreement between the governments of Romania and France. Ramsar site no. 521.

References

^ Williams, Nicola; Le Nevez, Catherine (2007). Provence and the Côte D'Azur. Lonely Planet. ISBN 978-1-74104-236-8.
^ Biosphere reserve information
^ (in Spanish) El hermanamiento del Espacio Natural de Doñana y la Camarga francesa Article on the twinning