Sustainable management of bocage environments
Bocage is a type of landscape that offers many benefits to wildlife, providing a remarkable variety of habitats ideal for wildlife (thereby helping to maintain diversity and species richness, regulate the ecological balance and preserve threatened species).
Biodiversity benefits of bocage conservation
Many different types of bocage exist. Their diversity can mainly be attributed to historical factors and regional differences in farming practices. The various types of bocage differ in terms of what they offer wildlife.
Parameters of the "ideal bocage environment"
The balance between the benefits and nuisances that hedgerows represent for farmers is clearly a particularly sensitive issue. The document below contains a few pointers:
Hedgerows - Benefits and drawbacks for the farmer ?
Biodiversity in bocage environments can only be preserved by protecting the various habitats that they provide. Farmers and local authorities have developed a number of strategies and best practices to achieve this goal, including:
Creating shared living space
Planting hedges for wildlife
Sustainable hedgerow management
Development of wood-based energy in bocage areas
