Le Pouzin | Let’s break up. Natura 2000: the Region takes control to the great dismay of mayors

Since 2010 and until December 31, the commune of Pouzin housed a Natura 2000 site management structure within the walls of the town hall. At the beginning, it was initially to fulfill missions on two sites. That of “Rompon, Ouvèze, Payre” which includes 18 Ardèche communes over 1,054 hectares and that of “Printegarde”, which extends over six Ardèche and Drôme communes and 677 hectares.

Then, in 2019, a third protected site called “alluvial environments of the Rhône aval” was added which…