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any cost is already a lost battle. What kind of nature do we want? To leave it to happen
and accept an ineluctable but uncertain evolution or favour a proactive management to
respond to the wishes of the public? In the latter case, why not bio-manipulate our
waterways intelligently by introducing species that are better adapted to the ecological
environment today and in the future, and that would be useful for both productive
activities and leisure?

This is not an appeal to the great unknown, as some will certainly consider, but an
appeal for a more rational approach to the management of the magnificent nature of
Europe where

those who have contributed to its concept can be happy. We must remember that some
of the most emblematic waterways of France were created artificially, such as
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Camargue or the reservoir of the Lac de Der, both listed by Ramsar .

As is the Verbois barrage on the Rhone in the region of Geneva. Is man the real
enemy of biodiversity?

Article proposed by D. MODAFFARI, translated by Elisabeth BELCHAMBER

The Ramsar Convention, officially Convention on Wetlands of International Importance,
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especially waterfowl habitats, also known as the Convention on Wetlands, is an international
treaty signed on 2 February 1971.

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