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COLLECTION NATURE TO LIVE -
172 PAGES - 14 x 20 cm
The city is the enemy of the
nature. There is a fluently accepted idea that is not yet quite exact.
Certainly, the pollution, the urbanism galloping, the human overpopulation made
numerous animal species escape.
But others adjusted. Better,
this "natural" environment represents a certain number of advantages clean to
attract many animals who come to elect domicile to the shade of our buildings.
It is about, in a way, of a farming exodus of the animals!
Thus, the discharges in the
open and, more modestly, our trash cans exits every evening constitutes a great
pantry. No pesticides that destroy the bugs in city, here is that pleases to a
crowd of insectivorous birds. These passereaux also finds in the cities of what
to surmount the wintry scarcities. And then calmness, yes, you read well, the
calmness of the city is so preferable to hunt or to the trapping that rages in
the countries.
Consequence, the fauna of the
cities becomes richer, but other dangers watch this small people and we must now
protect it. He/it was only time to take in account this phenomenon and to leave
to the discovery of the urban wild animals.
It is what with happiness Yves
Thonnérieux, passionate naturalist and author made many works on the nature.
He/it opens us the doors of this secret nature and learns us to meet our
discreet neighbors with feathers and to hairs.
Documented, but as funny and living, his/her/its texts
are illustrated by the magnificent pictures of Manfred Danegger, one of the
photographers animaliers the most talented and well-known currently. The final
key is brought by Jean Chevallier, famous watercolorist who gives life to all
these animals.
TO KNOW
The protective League of the
Birds, anxious to promote the idea of a fauna protection within the city,
brought its support to this work.
Allain Bougrain Dubourg, that
one doesn't present anymore, in sign the preface in which he/it declares
notably": This pacific safari to our door could be the first stage of a real
engagement in favor of a fauna weakened by our behaviors. He/it is time to react
for the happiness of the fauna of the cities. And ours! "
This work is part of a
collection of more than 20 titles among which" Learn to observe the fauna of the
Alps ", but also in the South of France, the Center, Brittany, the Pyrenees.
This collection also consists of the work" to Glean in the left last year East"
and that knows a quick success.
