Published in Causette in May 2021. Muscular atrophy can affect anyone and sometimes cause serious after-effects. Faced with this health problem without a cure, Blandine Chazarin, a doctor in analytical chemistry, has taken an interest in an animal that does not move for six months each year and yet does well: the brown bear. Cover […]
Published in Le magazine du Monde in december 2020. In the waters of the region, thousands of “Marthasterias glacialis” have invited themselves for the holidays. Their appetite for mollusks competes with the activity of fishermen, who find this invasive and unknown species even in their nets. Cover picture: Manon Boquen
Published in Sans Transition ! in october 2020. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 75% of the world’s food comes from twelve plant and five animal species. The Kaol Kozh association, based in Roscoff, has decided to fight against this decline in biodiversity by cultivating and propagating peasant seeds around […]
Published in Paris Match in july 2020. It is huge, a little scary and more and more present in French rivers. Catfish, a freshwater fish native to Asia that can reach 2.5 meters in length, was introduced to France in the 1960s. Since then, researchers and fishermen/fisherwomen have been questioning its integration.An opportunistic species, capable […]
Published in Reporterre in may 2020. Every year in western Brittany, there are more and more jackdaws. This small opportunistic corvid with a grey back takes advantage of the region’s abundant resources, particularly corn, to feast on. Its happiness does not match that of the farmers, who have designated it as an enemy to be […]
Published in Rendez-vous photos in april 2020. This is the 2018 figure: 33% of birds would have disappeared from agricultural areas in France in fifteen years. This is an alarming observation that professional and amateur ornithologists like to explore in greater depth each year during the sessions of the Temporal Monitoring of Common Birds (STOC) […]
Published in La Vie in march 2020. Since 2016, the Ile-de-France-based association Espero has been working to promote the professional integration of refugees through urban agriculture. And one of the flagship areas it promotes is beekeeping. Ibrahim Karout, of Syrian origin, passes on his know-how on bees to new arrivals in France to help them […]
Published in Causette in march 2020. Fish have a small beating heart. This is what Chloé Laubu, who defended her thesis in population biology and ecology in 2018, wanted to show by questioning the place of emotions and personality in decision-making in zebra cichlids, a monogamous species of fish. Because these water beings are also […]
Published in Reporterre in february 2020. Lionelle Arnaud is a chicken breeder on Yeu island. Since she announced her project for an organic hen farm, she has experienced great difficulties in getting her installation off the ground. Several things are involved. The lack of agricultural tradition in Yeu when most of the economic activity comes […]
Published in La Vie in february 2020. Tomy Journaux is a special kind of fisherman. Every day he puts on his wetsuit in search of scallops in the bays of Saint-Malo and Saint-Brieuc. This way of fishing is also a way to preserve the resource without destroying other species as trawlers do. There are only […]