{"id":2845,"date":"2018-09-17T10:48:41","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T09:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/?p=2845"},"modified":"2022-03-08T15:35:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T14:35:15","slug":"our-forests-and-parks-refuges-for-fauna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/our-forests-and-parks-refuges-for-fauna\/","title":{"rendered":"Our forests and parks: refuges for fauna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The chateau\u2019s parks\u00a0<\/strong>are an environment home to unique plant and flower species <strong>(chestnut trees, firs, tassel hyacinths, wild thyme and more)<\/strong> as well as a few\u00a0<strong>mammals (including hares, foxes and squirrels)<\/strong> and numerous different birds (woodpeckers, wood pigeons, Eurasian hoopoes and more).<\/p>\n<p><strong>50% of the estate is surrounded by an area of forest<\/strong>\u00a0running alongside Mandavit municipal park.<br \/>\nThe estate has a total of\u00a0<strong>12 hectares of preserved forest<\/strong>,\u00a0primarily containing\u00a0<strong>acacias, chestnut and pine trees<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the estate\u2019s forests are classified as a wooded area to be preserved, meaning that cutting them down is regulated.<\/p>\n<p>A logger comes twice a year to clean out the undergrowth, and cuts down dead trees (around fifteen a year) to allow the others to grow.<\/p>\n<p>Human activity levels in these forest areas are very low, which benefits fauna biodiversity (<strong>chevreuils, sangliers, blaireaux, renards\u2026<\/strong>) that have made this peaceful place their home.<\/p>\n<p>No hunting is permitted in our vineyard and we make occasional use of a certified trapper to control the population of animal pests (foxes, moles etc.) and regulate the diversity of the site\u2019s animal species (badgers, hares, deer and more).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chateau\u2019s parks\u00a0are an environment home to unique plant and flower species (chestnut trees, firs, tassel hyacinths, wild thyme and more) as well as a few\u00a0mammals (including hares, foxes and squirrels) and numerous different birds (woodpeckers, wood pigeons, Eurasian hoopoes and more). 50% of the estate is surrounded by an area of forest\u00a0running alongside Mandavit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualites"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2845"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6079,"href":"https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845\/revisions\/6079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}