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Réserve naturelle marine de La Réunion (La Réunion Marine Natural Reserve) La Réunion: La Réunion: Les Avirons, L'Étang-Salé, Saint-Leu, Saint-Paul, Les Trois-Bassins: 2007 35 RNN164 Sites géologiques de l'Essonne (Essonne Geological Sites) Île-de-France: Essonne: Auvers-Saint-Georges, Chauffour-lès-Étréchy, Ormoy-la-Rivière, Saint ...
The Lake of Orient or Seine Reservoir Lake is a lake in northeastern France, located in the Aube department of the Grand Est region.With a surface area of 23 km 2 (8.9 sq mi) and a normal capacity of 205 km 3 (49 cu mi), [1] it is the third-largest Artificial Lake in mainland France, after Lake Der-Chantecoq and Lake Serre-Ponçon, and ahead of Lake Sainte-Croix.
French regional natural parks (in green), national parks (in red) and marine natural parks (in blue). A regional nature park [1] or regional natural park (French: parc naturel régional or PNR) is a public establishment in France between local authorities and the French national government covering an inhabited rural area of outstanding beauty in order to protect the scenery and heritage as ...
The great lakes of Seine were set up from the 1960s to protect Paris from floods. [2] [3] Their completion in the 1990s allowed the establishment of peripheral natural environments linked to their presence. The protection of these environments was ensured by the creation of the nature reserve in 2002. [4]
EPTB Seine Grands Lacs is a public territorial basin institution created in 1969 under the name of Institution interdépartementale des barrages-réservoirs du bassin de la Seine. Grouping together the departments of the former Seine , its mission is to reduce the winter and spring floods of the Seine and its main tributaries (the Yonne , Marne ...
A national nature reserve, in French réserve naturelle nationale, (RNN) is a protected area that is part of natural reserves of France (RNF) and whose status is defined by the law on local democracy of February 27, 2002. It is a tool for the long-term protection of spaces, species or geological objects. [1] The duration of its protection is ...
National nature reserve (France) ... Réserve naturelle nationale des Hauts de Chartreuse; ... Gorges de la Loire Nature Reserve; T.
14 December 1963 Pyrénées National Park (Parc national des Pyrénées) Hautes-Pyrénées and Pyrénées-Atlantiques: 458 km 2 (177 sq mi) 2,077 km 2 (802 sq mi) 23 March 1967 Réunion National Park (Parc national de la Réunion) Réunion (overseas department) 1,054 km 2 (407 sq mi) 877 km 2 (339 sq mi) 5 March 2007 Vanoise National Park