Bocages et vergers du sud Pays d'Auge

Bocages et vergers du sud Pays d'Auge translated as the Bocages and orchards of the southern Pays d'Auge is a Natura 2000 conservation area that is 21,511 hectares in size.^[1]

Bocages et vergers du sud Pays d'Auge
Location within France
Location	Orne, Normandy
Coordinates	48.73389°N 0.29694°E / 48.73389; 0.29694
Area	21,511 ha (83.05 sq mi)
Established	12 December, 2008

Geography

The area is a well-preserved wooded landscape that features dense hedges which shelter old trees whose pollarding has allowed cavities to appear in these trees, suitable for certain types of insects.^[2] The area is mostly agricultural with 5 % being scrubland and the remaining 5% being forested.^[1]

It is spread across 27 different communes all within the Orne department;^[1]

1. Almenêches
2. Champ-Haut
3. Cisai-Saint-Aubin
4. Coulmer
5. Croisilles
6. Échauffour
7. La Ferrière-au-Doyen
8. Gacé
9. Ginai
10. Gouffern en Auge
11. Lignères
12. Mahéru
13. Merlerault-le-Pin
14. Moulins-la-Marche
15. Ménil-Froger
16. Ménil-Hubert-en-Exmes
17. Le Ménil-Vicomte
18. Orgères
19. Le Pin-au-Haras
20. Planches
21. Résenlieu
22. Saint-Evroult-Notre-Dame-du-Bois
23. Saint-Evroult-de-Montfort
24. Saint-Germain-de-Clairefeuille
25. Saint-Pierre-des-Loges
26. Sainte-Gauburge-Sainte-Colombe
27. La Trinité-des-Laitiers

Conservation

The conservation area has three species of insect listed in Annex 2 of the Habitats Directive;^[3]

1. European stag beetle
2. Hermit beetle
3. Great capricorn beetle