Risle, Guiel, Charentonne

Risle, Guiel, Charentonne is a Natura 2000 site around the rivers and valleys of the Risle, Charentonne, Guiel and their tributaries and valleys of these rivers.^[1]

Geography

The area is 4,747 hectares in size and is mostly within the Eure department of Normandy, with the remaining 7% of the area based in the Orne department.^[2] The valleys of the protected area which the rivers run through are an Alluvial plain.^[1]

It is spread across 70 different communes all within the Orne department;^[2]

1. Aclou
2. Ambenay
3. Appeville-Annebault
4. Authou
5. Barquet
6. Beaumont-le-Roger
7. Beaumontel
8. Le Bec-Hellouin
9. Bernay
10. Bosrobert
11. Brionne
12. Broglie
13. Calleville
14. Campigny
15. Caorches-Saint-Nicolas
16. Chamblac
17. Chaumont
18. Condé-sur-Risle
19. Corneville-sur-Risle
20. La Ferrière-sur-Risle
21. Ferrières-Saint-Hilaire
22. La Ferté-en-Ouche
23. Fontaine-l'Abbé
24. Freneuse-sur-Risle
25. Glos-sur-Risle
26. Goupil-Othon
27. Grosley-sur-Risle
28. La Houssaye
29. Launay
30. Livet-sur-Authou
31. Manneville-sur-Risle
32. Menneval
33. Mesnil-en-Ouche
34. Montfort-sur-Risle
35. Montreuil-l'Argillé
36. Mélicourt
37. Nassandres sur Risle
38. Neaufles-Auvergny
39. La Neuve-Lyre
40. Notre-Dame-du-Hamel
41. Le Noyer-en-Ouche
42. La Noë-Poulain
43. Pont-Audemer
44. Pont-Authou
45. La Poterie-Mathieu
46. Les Préaux
47. Romilly-la-Puthenaye
48. Rugles
49. Saint-Agnan-de-Cernières
50. Saint-Christophe-sur-Condé
51. Saint-Denis-d'Augerons
52. Saint-Evroult-de-Montfort
53. Saint-Laurent-du-Tencement
54. Saint-Mards-de-Blacarville
55. Saint-Martin-Saint-Firmin
56. Saint-Philbert-sur-Risle
57. Saint-Pierre-de-Cernières
58. Saint-Pierre-de-Salerne
59. Saint-Siméon
60. Saint-Étienne-l'Allier
61. Le Sap-André
62. Selles
63. Serquigny
64. Tourville-sur-Pont-Audemer
65. Toutainville
66. Treis-Sants-en-Ouche
67. La Trinité-de-Réville
68. La Trinité-des-Laitiers
69. Verneusses
70. La Vieille-Lyre

Conservation

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

1. Northern crested newt
2. European bullhead
3. Cottus perifretum
4. European river lamprey
5. Brook lamprey
6. Sea lamprey
7. Atlantic salmon
8. White-clawed crayfish
9. Southern damselfly
10. Jersey tiger
11. European stag beetle
12. Orange-spotted emerald
13. Desmoulin's whorl snail
14. Eurasian otter
15. Bechstein's bat
16. Geoffroy's bat
17. Greater mouse-eared bat
18. Greater horseshoe bat

In addition the Natura 2000 site has seven habitats protected under the Habitats Directive.^[3]