Parc naturel régional des Caps Marais d’Opale

The regional nature Parkf of Caps et Marais d'Opale born in March 2000 as the consolidation of Parks of Boulonnais and Audomarois and the accession of new communities, creating a body adapted to problems of planning. With the Nord - Pas-de-Calais, Département du Pas-de-Calais - the main funders of the Park - and the 152 member municipalities, six and five intermunicipalities consular agencies were mobilized on a project of economic and social development, based on the protection and enhancement of cultural heritage and natural landscape. Experimentation, partnership, advocacy, environmental citizenship and sustainable development are the watchwords. The regional nature Park was built around three areas of high quality. The coastline of the Opal Coast is rich in its landscape and its natural environments: Gris-Nez and Blanc-Nez Capes, dunes, estuaries, sandy bays, rocky foreshore ... the grove of Boulogne, the country of Licques and artesian valleys composed a whole valley where the lush farming (see the horse bolts) still occupies a prominent place. The Audomarois - last cultivated marshes of France - is a remarkable natural area, popular with tourists. The diversity of geological substrates and climatic conditions, the presence of a coastline produced a juxtaposition and interweaving of natural environments conducive to intense biological production. The territory is home to most of the habitats and species encountered in the Nord - Pas-de-Calais. Major bridgehead to Britain, opened on the most frequented Strait of the world, instead of passing between the north and south, the territory of the regional nature Park of Caps et marais d'Opale is a maritime crossroads and land coveted since always to its geostrategic position. Its cultural heritage keeps evidence of a troubled past but also of cultural influences that have shaped the landscape, building techniques, customs, know-how ... Finally, three sets landscape are visible: the buttonhole of the bolt, the inland valleys of the Artois, the lowlands that prefigure the great plain of the North. They consist of multiple entities landscape.

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