Word to the experts

Protect our natural heritage!

 Interview with Jean-Marie Froidefond, geomorphologist and former researcher at the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research) and the CNEXO (National Center for the Exploitation of the Oceans). He has been studying the Dune since 1970. He is also the author of the book La Grande Dune du Pilat – The mysteries of the highest dune in Europe. 

Jean-Marie Froidefond

Geomorphologist

 Since 2001, Aurélien Caillon has been the botanist referent for the inventory of the flora of Gironde as well as for invasive alien species in New Aquitaine. 

Aurelien Caillon

Botanist, South Atlantic National Botanical Conservatory

 Since 2017, Nathalie Madrid has joined the Conservatoire du littoral, taking responsibility for the Aquitaine delegation, which has been involved since 1998 in a land acquisition policy in order to guarantee the maintenance of public space while permanently protecting the Grand Site from the Dune of Pilat. 

Nathalie Madrid

Delegate of Rivage Aquitaine

 Since 2018, after having carried out a landscaping expertise mission at the request of the Mixed Syndicate, Bertrand Folléa has supported, as a consultant landscaper, the manager of the Large Site on major development projects during the pre-operational and operational phases and brings its contribution to the strategic thinking undertaken. 

Bertrand Follea

Folléa-Gautier landscape agency

 Since 2009, the Observatory of the Coast of New Aquitaine has been a tool for observation, decision support and knowledge sharing for the management and prevention of the risks of erosion and submersion of the neo coast. -aquitaine, constantly evolving. Coastal risk engineers, specialists in extreme events and coastal geomorphology, work to serve all public coastal stakeholders. 

New Aquitaine Coast Observatory

Bureau of Geological and Mining Research

The reception area has had a facelift!

The requalification work was carried out with the financial support of:

FEDER participation in the financing of works and developments contributing to better management of visitor flows as well as the separation of uses, around the rehabilitation of the village of cabins, the improvement of the reception area through landscape treatments and the creation of a museo-scenography tour.