Bocages et vergers du sud Pays d'Auge translated as the Bocages and orchards of the southern Pays d'Auge is a Natura 2000 conservation area that is 21,511 hectares in size.
Geography
The area is a well-preserved wooded landscape that features dense hedges which shelter old trees whose pollarding has allowed cavities to appear in these trees, suitable for certain types of insects. The area is mostly agricultural with 5 % being scrubland and the remaining 5% being forested.
It is spread across 27 different communes all within the Orne department;
Almenêches Champ-Haut Cisai-Saint-Aubin Coulmer Croisilles Échauffour La Ferrière-au-Doyen Gacé Ginai Gouffern en Auge Lignères Mahéru Merlerault-le-Pin Moulins-la-Marche Ménil-Froger Ménil-Hubert-en-Exmes Le Ménil-Vicomte Orgères Le Pin-au-Haras Planches Résenlieu Saint-Evroult-Notre-Dame-du-Bois Saint-Evroult-de-Montfort Saint-Germain-de-Clairefeuille Saint-Pierre-des-Loges Sainte-Gauburge-Sainte-Colombe La Trinité-des-Laitiers
Conservation
The conservation area has three species of insect listed in Annex 2 of the Habitats Directive;
European stag beetle Hermit beetle Great capricorn beetle
References
External links Protected Area Profile for Bocages et vergers du sud Pays d'Auge from the World Database on Protected Areas. Retrieved September 10, 2024.