details
- Name
- Fondation Tour du Valat
- Native name
- Fondation Tour du Valat
- Address
- Le Sambuc
- Zipcode
- 13200
- City
- Arles
- Country
- France
- Phone
- +33 (0)4 90 97 20 13
- Fax
- +33 (0)4 90 97 20 19
- secretariat@tourduvalat.org
- Centre Website
- https://tourduvalat.org/
organisation profile
Convinced that it will only be possible to preserve wetlands if human activities and the protection of the natural heritage can be reconciled, the Tour du Valat has for many years been developing programmes of research and integrated management that promote interchanges between wetland users and scientists.
The Tour du Valat mission is to halt the loss and the degradation of Mediterranean wetlands and of their natural resources, and to restore them.
La Tour du Valat, located in the heart of the Camargue is a private research organization. It has the legal form of a charitable foundation recognised as a non profit-making association since 1978.
The Tour du Valat Estate which includes all the natural habitats representative of the Camargue with its rivers and wetlands, extends over an area of 2 600 hectares 1 071 of which benefited from the status of Voluntary Nature Reserve between 1984 and 2008. Since July 2008, 1 844 ha have been set under the status of Regional Nature Reserve. A certain amount of experimental work is carried out by the Tour du Valat's researchers on this estate.
edmo metadata
- EDMO record id
- 2470
- Collating centre
- Ifremer, Scientific Information Systems for the sea (SISMER)
- Latest update
- 8 September 2010 10:55:34 AM