Where Is The Camargue Nature Reserve?
The Carmargue Nature Reserve is in France, on the south coast of the country, at the mouth of the river Rhone. Its climate is typically Mediterranean with hot dry summers and warm wet winters. A strong wind known as the mistral wind blows from the north for six months of the year. The Park consists of about 850 square kilometres of coastal wetlands between the estuaries of the Grand and petit Rhone. It includes lakes and marshes and the ecology of the area is complex. The varied habitats include salty lakes and lagoons, forests, freshwater marshes, meadows and Mediterranean scrubland. The reserve is most famous for its bird inhabitants, which include the cattle egret, the full billed turn, the squacco heron, the pratincole and the greater flamingo. This is the only type of flamingo to breed in Europe and it forms large colonies on the salty lagoons and mudflats.
