Natural Regional Parks were created to protect and enhance the open rural inhabited spaces.
A ‘Natural Regional Park’ is an area which is predominantly rural and whose landscapes, natural environment and cultural heritage are of a high quality, but whose balance is fragile.
A Natural Regional Park is organized around a collaborative project of Sustainable Development, founded on the protection and development of its natural and cultural heritage for the following twelve years. The rules of the game that the various partners have decided upon for the implementation of this project are a commitment to the framework of a ‘Sustainable Development Project’, recognized and guaranteed by the State. (Decree n°94-765 of 1/9/1994).
This project is established on a charter which is unique for each of the Natural Regional Parks of France.
Each charter fixes the goals to achieve, following the trends in the protection, enhancement and development of a Natural Park, as well as the measures which enable its implementation.
To Consult the charters of the different regional parks:
