Fos sur Mer - Sustainable ecological and economic restoration of degraded Mediterranean ecosystems

Organised every year since 2022, the Ecology Environment Biodiversity Week (SEEB) of the CNRS, Ecology and Environment Institute, brings together researchers and local socio-economic players to discuss the scientific, environmental and societal challenges facing our regions.

🗓 From 1 to 5 June 2026, The SEEB will take place in France, Portugal and Senegal, on the theme of«Science in action: restoring nature, transforming territories».».

Within this framework, the IMBE (EECAR team), will offer the Thursday 4 June 2026 site visits in the Crau plain (Fos-sur-Mer, France), making the‘operations ecological restoration.

• Morning : a visit to France's first natural compensation and restoration site, where a an abandoned intensive orchard has been rehabilitated as Mediterranean grassland, in partnership with CDC Biodiversité.
• Afternoon: participation in operations to restore local ecosystems affected by :
  • the exploitation of aggregates in a quarry (with SCLM)
  • dismantling old industrial buildings in the Grand Port Maritime de Marseille area (with GPMM)

A unique opportunity to discover science in action and concrete ecological restoration projects !