We take a look at the latest environmental news that is affecting French communities this month.
Tree valuation project grows
Rochefort, France’s latest city, has adopted a system that assigns a value to each tree (11,000). This is used to calculate the amount of compensation required if they are damaged or vandalised. It also helps to compare maintenance, management, development scenarios.
The Charente Maritime town joins Orlans Lyon Nancy Riorges and Nancy in implementing a barme d’arbre (tree-scaling) to quantify and calculate possible compensation.
The tree’s species, age, rarity, and rarity all play a role in determining its value. If the tree is damaged, compensation will be higher.
This applies to Rochefort’s majestic ash tree, which is located near the city’s thermal baths. Its value was estimated at 26,000.
Rochforte Ash tree valued at 26,000. Photo credit France2
The towns collaborated to make an online tool available to everyone, individuals and communities. The scale, called VIE (Valeur Intgrale Value de larbre) allows you to assign a tree a financial value. This is an element of appreciation and discussion, but it does not reduce trees to this monetary value.
VIE does not calculate the tree standing timber value, or the production value for fruit trees. VIE is not intended for agricultural or forestry production.
Knowing the tree’s value is very useful when there are roadworks or construction projects nearby.
Protecting the heritage of plants is increasingly being seen as a key aspect of urban management, particularly in cities where they are essential for their ecological benefits and the morale-boosting effect they can have on residents.
Lgumes with odd looks are sold at a reduced price
France has set a goal to reduce food waste half by 2025. There are many initiatives in this direction.
One such project is in Saint-Pol-de-Lon (Finistre), where a former supermarket vegetable and fruit purchasing manager has started a company called Finistrestes. A name that combines Finistre and rests or leftovers to sell vegetables too ugly to sell in supermarkets at reduced rates.
Karim VincentViry’s lightbulb moment occurred a few years back when he found a skip containing fruit and vegetables that did NOT conform to large-scale distribution guidelines and was destined for the garbage bin.
He discovered that the region was receiving between 15 and 20 truckloads per day of non-standard vegetables.
These are vegetables that are rich in vitamins and completely edible. He told Franceinfo that he thought it was a shame not to use them.
Pick-up points in Brittany can be arranged for 5 mixed baskets of curiously shaped carrots, untidy turnips and imperfect potatoes.
It is estimated that approximately 16% of vegetables are stored in bins because they don’t fit supermarket criteria.
Pesticides in your cup of coffee: Beware
A major study by consumer publication 60 millions de consommateurs found that some natural products can be considered healthy and natural. tisanesInfusions are nothing but.
Patricia Chairopoulos, a spokesperson for the magazine, said that they found fragments and pesticide residues in 48 of their top infusions.
The most problematic teas were green or black teas made with base products from China and India. All organic products tested fared much better.
Weedkiller disrupts our reproductive systems
An official agricultural research agency says that glyphosate, a weedkiller, is still allowed on French farms but banned in private gardens.
Inrae has published a compilation that shows how many decades of research using different animal subjects has shown that GBH can be achieved. [glyphosate herbicide]It is an endocrine disruptor of reproductive functions.
Inrae adds that additional research is ongoing on fertility effects and possible health problems.
UFC-Que Choisir, the consumer body, welcomed these findings, calling them a “remarkable development.” PetitionNearly half a million people signed the petition calling for the EU to ban the substance, which is also suspected of causing lung cancer.
France did not fulfill President Macron’s 2017 promise that it would be banned from agriculture within three years after farmers protested.
Protesters hope the EUs authorization will not be renewed this year, as it is up for renewal at the end. It was banned unilaterally by Luxembourg last year.
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