Wow, what a stunning nature and beautiful pictures.Good evenooning all. A few photos from today’s trip to the “Causses et Cévennes” national park which is a UNESCO world heritage site. As well as the mountains there are farmed plateaus at 1000 metres (~3000ft) cut through by deep river gorges. The scenery is spectacular.
Several years ago, 2 species of vulture (Black and Griffon) were reintroduced to the area. Not long after, Egyptian vultures pitched up of their own accord. This year Lammergeier (aka Bearded Vulture) were reintroduced.
We have been here a a few times and the numbers have much increased. We were very excited to see the Lammergeier too, so we saw all 4 species. Vultures are so rare in Western Europe. This is a major environmental success. [emoji4]
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Lammergeier left, Griffon right
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Causses farmland
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