Final yr, the Puy de Dôme departmental council announced its intention to buy Servières lake to make one Sensitive natural space. The acquisition finalized, the Division intends to know implement current prohibitions and protect this website by hiring 4 seasonal guards, who shall be supported by a nature guardian from the Parc des Volcans d'Auvergne, who till then had overseen the location.
Have the swimming ban accepted
Amongst these guards employed from April to September, Hervé simply received out of the water bathers. “Very good folks, by the way in which, who understood the message very effectively. We clarify to them that there are vegetation which can be protected right here and that are important to the lifetime of the lake. “
No extra query, subsequently, to take a dip within the lake of Servières, habits that must change when final yr we recorded peaks of 260 bathers and as much as 2,500 folks settled across the lake.
– Juliette Micheneau
“Folks don't essentially notice their impression“says Nicolas, one of many guards.”Inevitably habits will change. We aren’t going to come back there to devour a lake, we recognize the wind, the water, however _we don't come to eat like across the pool or on the nautical base_. […] Folks should be capable to come differently, to understand nature, and to understand nature it’s realized, it isn’t essentially innate. “
On common a 100 liter bag of waste per day
The guards should even be vigilant with the varied hikers, with the doable motorized machines, the horses may also make injury on the banks. Additionally they have a cleansing mission. “In sooner or later we normally fill a 100 liter bag of rubbish“says David who takes stock of what he simply picked up.”A number of bottles, numerous handkerchiefs, _we discovered a masks, sanitary napkins, tampons, bathroom paper_, this type of joyfulness. “
– Juliette Micheneau
Put off chilly sores
Within the viewfinder of the Division, there are additionally fires and different wild barbecues. “It’s prohibited by legislation, not by the Division“, recollects the vice-president of the Departmental Council, Bernard Sauvade, in control of the atmosphere.”Now we have not _not allowed to make fires inside 200 meters of a forest_, it’s strictly prohibited“Now in Servières, the forest is sort of in every single place.
However earlier than arriving on the intervention of gendarmes and doable sanctions, it’s pedagogy that prevails. This summer season there shall be fastened factors the place walkers can come and discover nature guards themselves and work together with them.
Concerning fishing, the fishing firm of Michelin, former proprietor of Servières, retains the administration for this summer season. Then the Puy-de-Dôme fishing federation who shall be chargeable for it, for a minimal use. The Division needs to favor Lake Guéry for this sort of exercise.
