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THE LIFE PROGRAMME
HERMANN’S TORTOISE LIFE PROGRAMME
Actions planned and results
Management and experiments
Management and experiments
Direct intervention at the selected sites in order to improve or increase the total area of suitable habitats for Hermann’s tortoises.
These are experimental actions, which can later be generalised and transferred to sites with similar problems.
They consist of :
- opening up the habitat (tree cutting and bush clearing)
- improving hedges and copses
- creating water points
- using the necessary means to increase grazing at the intervention sites by involving local stakeholders in order to make the interventions permanent
- experimental improvement of the ground vegetation
- experimental controlled burning.
- improving hedges and copses
- creating water points
- using the necessary means to increase grazing at the intervention sites by involving local stakeholders in order to make the interventions permanent
- experimental improvement of the ground vegetation
- experimental controlled burning.
Manual brushing and scrub mosaic
Mechanical clearing and logging
Creation of water points
Sheep, cattle and asin maintenance of Hermann’s tortoise habitats
Experimental controlled burning