Overseas biodiversity in the spotlight in 2022 by the LPO

Event/Overseas biodiversity in the spotlight in 2022 by the LPO

France with its large territory has a great responsibility to protect biodiversity. A telling figure: the overseas territories represent only 0.08% in terms of surface area, but it concentrates 80% of biodiversity. The threats? invasive species such as rats on the island of Tromelin which had left only two species of boobies, including the red-footed booby, hunting like that in the West Indies of red-necked pigeons or the rouviolette dove, climate change which threatens the king penguins of the Crozet archipelago...
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Coastal Savannah [AT]

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A male rock Cock-of-a palm comou [AT]

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Reef flat of Rangiroa Atoll and coconut [AT]

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The white tern chick [AT]

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Chick straw-tailed Yellow-billed to the nest [AT]

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Straw-tailed Yellow-billed to the nest [AT]

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GRANDE FREGATE

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Lesser Antilles Iguana (Iguana delicatissima) [AT]

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Lesser Antilles Iguana (Iguana delicatissima) [AT]

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Lesser Antilles Iguana (Iguana delicatissima) [AT]

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Rouviolette Dove on nest [AT]

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Phelsuma inexpectata [AT]

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Phelsuma inexpectata [AT]

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Guadeloupe

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coq de roche orange

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Phaéton à bec jaune

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Frégate, Europa

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Tromelin - fou à pieds rouges

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Tromelin - fou à pieds rouges

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Cocotiers et mât aux couleurs, île Tromelin

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Manchots royaux, Baie du Marin, île de La Possession, Crozet

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Manchots royaux, Baie du Marin, île de La Possession, Crozet

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