Regional Natural Park Scarpe-Escaut

The Scarpe-Escaut Regional Nature Park , created in 1968 , is the first of the Regional Nature Parks in France , and one of the four parks in the Hauts-de-France region , housing important elements of the industrial and mining heritage of the region. region, including some heaps now protected and / or managed for biodiversity and various recreational activities.

It is the smallest but also the most densely inhabited and urbanized of the 51 territories labeled Regional Natural Parks by the Ministry of Spatial Planning and the Environment. It consists of 55 classified towns and covers 48,500 hectares between Valenciennes , Douai and Lille , and concerns 190,000 inhabitants.

This is one place where the device was tested ecoguard set up by the Regional Council or the collection of agricultural waste (including used tires that cover agricultural silos) and where the decline is green belt so called green belt and blue of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region .

With the Plains of the Scheldt Nature Park created by the Walloon Region in Belgium in 1996, it forms the Hainaut Transboundary Nature Park .

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