The first edition of this operation, with its official name “Mission Nature”, was launched by the French Biodiversity Office (OFB) and La Française des jeux (FDJ) in 2023. Inspired by the Heritage Loto, it had raised 7 million euros to finance 21 projects.
Scratch tickets
This year, the target envelope is 6 million euros to be raised via this scratch game. On each ticket, sold for 3 euros, 43 cents will be donated to the OFB to finance the various projects. Players will be able to pocket a maximum of 30,000 euros in winnings.
A special lotto draw is also planned for this Monday evening with tickets sold for 2.20 euros including 53 cents donated to the OFB. The selected projects revolve around four major ecosystems to be preserved: wetlands, forest environments, meadows and endangered species.
Three of these 19 projects concern New Aquitaine. In Corrèze, 101,924 euros of planned subsidy will be allocated to a project, estimated at 161,375 euros, aimed at restoring the ecological continuities of the intercommunal farm in the Tulle agglomeration. A focus on agroecology which translates into resilient agronomic practices, and a restoration of wetlands which occupy half of its surface area.
Two projects in Charente-Maritime
The two other projects in the region are located in Charente-Maritime. First the restoration of the Rochefort marshes. A project estimated at 95,629 euros, subsidized to the tune of 76,100 euros, which aims to restore hydraulic and pastoral infrastructures set up by the League for the Protection of Birds (LPO) in the 1990s on three sites in the Rochefort marsh, with a total area of 250 hectares. Now degraded, their restoration will make it possible to perpetuate the presence of local species, whether it is the annual nesting of the Black Tern, the wintering of the Great Bittern or even the presence of the Marsh Copper.
Finally, the last project concerns the Brouage citadel. Located in the heart of the Brouage marsh, in Charente-Maritime, about twenty kilometers south of Rochefort, it offers a rich habitat for reptiles, notably green and yellow snakes and viper snakes, whose populations are threatened by numerous road collisions. The selected project, estimated at 63,038 euros, will receive 50,430 euros in subsidy. It provides for the construction of a serpentine, a passageway under the road to ensure safe crossing between the habitats of these reptiles.
