During the holidays, the association Water and Rivers offers several activities for young and old around the theme of the bocage, at Belle-Isle-en-Terre (Côtes-d’Armor).
What is the bocage?
It is an agricultural landscape, therefore shaped by man, which includes fields and meadows delimited by hedges with or without embankments. These hedges are of crucial importance for the preservation of biodiversity.
“The bocage contains food reserves for the animals and constitutes a corridor which allows them to move from one environment to another”, explains Vincent Lefebvre, one of the directors of Eau et Rivières.
In addition, this landscape “Keeps water in the ground. It is important for the preservation of our water resource, which is precious in a period of global warming, when rivers and land dry up as soon as spring arrives. “ Another advantage of the bocage: “It captures CO2”, concludes Vincent Lefebvre.
But he is threatened. Since 1950, 70% of the hedges have disappeared and with them “35% of the birds in our countryside”. The idea, with the time of the bocage, is to make discover this landscape through playful activities.
Making toys with the wood from the hedges
Wednesday, October 27, 2021, at 2 p.m., at Regional center for initiation to the river (Crir), in Belle-Isle-en-Terre, the association will offer to learn how to make small games (whistles, marbles), with wood from the hedges of the bocage.
Tuesday, November 2, at 2 p.m. at Crir, association will show how to build a hedgehog shelter, a typical species of the bocage. Eau et Rivières also recalls that a census campaign for dead and alive hedgehogs is underway, led by the National Environment Federation (FNE).
Making drawing charcoal from the trees in the hedges is what will be presented on Thursday, November 4 at 2 p.m. at the Crir.
Treasure hunts
Treasure hunts to discover the natural spaces of the department will be organized, Tuesday October 26 and Thursday November 14, at 2 p.m., in Menez-Bré. Another will take place in Plouisy, on Thursday, October 28, at 2 p.m., at the Champ-de-Tir de Plouisy natural area. To register, you must contact 02 96 43 08 39.
You sport
The association will organize kayaking outings in Callac, Wednesday October 27 and Wednesday November 3, at 2 p.m., at the Verte-Vallée de Callac pond (€ 5, from 8 years old).
Archery will also be possible in Belle-Isle-en-Terre, Tuesday, November 2, at 2 p.m. (€ 5).
Of the culture
For photography enthusiasts, exhibitions will be presented at the Regional River Initiation Center in Belle-Isle-en-Terre. They will be visible from October 26 to 29 and from November 2 to 4, from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
To your devices! A photography competition will also be organized on the themes: “Bocage d’automne-bocage d’hiver” and “De bocage et d’eau”. To register : eau-et-rivieres.org/concours-bocage
November 5, Bocage Festival
The two weeks of entertainment will end in style on Friday, November 5, with several activities at the Guingamp public garden, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tree climbing, mountain biking, archery, initiation to slackline (wire stretched between two trees, raised, on which you have to walk in balance), truant toy workshops will be on the program.
Contact : Phone. 02 96 43 08 39 or visit the website: www.eau-et-rivières.org
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