Operated by VINCI Airports, Annecy Haute-Savoie Mont-Blanc Airport has joined the Aero Biodiversity Association for an initial three year period. The objective is to evaluate the fauna and flora species found in and around the airport and better understand the natural habitat, the wildlife living within it and how to protect these species.
Beginning in April, Aero Biodiversity’s team will visit the airport several times a year to carry out surveys and record them. Volunteers from the airport will also be associated and trained up to help carry out the surveys.
The data collected from around Annecy will complete the 50,000 observations already carried out by the association on different airports and sent to the National Museum of History in Paris.
According to VINCI, airports are composed of on average around 70% of natural spaces. The airport operator is systematically carrying out biodiversity inventories throughout its portfolio of air transport hubs and is working in partnership with scientific experts, as is the case with Aero Biodiversity. The inventories already carried out have produced an exhibition on the richness of the fauna of the network’s airports which is currently on display at Annecy Airport for the next two months. It lists about 20 bird species present on the platform.
“Many species of fauna are present at Annecy Haute-Savoie Mont-Blanc airport. We are therefore very happy to initiate this partnership with Aero Biodiversity in order to further involve our employees and partners and to preserve the biodiversity on the 73 hectares of green spaces present on the platform,” said Aurélien Donche, Director of Annecy Haute-Savoie Mont-Blanc Airport.
