Why celebrate biodiversity?
The threats weighing on biodiversity are overlooked, or rather awareness has yet to be fully raised on its richness. The Natura 2000 sites, their purpose, their aims are just as badly understood, including by local populations and actors.
The municipalities within these sites are often small, lack the means to communicate on Natura 2000 and the exceptional biodiversity associated to it, and have trouble putting into value its positive aspects alongside their population. These sites, often considered as cumbersome, have a rather poor image.
Moreover, they require activities and social events in order to recover the bond between the locals. Biodiversity may prove to be an opportunity to bring the locals together around a heritage, a notion of common resources, and to arise a feeling of unifying pride.
Finally, moments of festivity and conviviality generate opportunities to reach out to people remotely concerned by environmental issues, who rarely go on nature outings or to other educational spaces dedicated to biodiversity. The biodiversity celebration, which shall take place in the very heart of these territories, shall reach out for the populations within their living space.