Corsica is a mountain in the sea. It rises steeply out of the Mediterranean to peaks above two thousand five hundred metres, and its interior is a wild country of granite and pine and maquis, the dense aromatic scrub that Napoleon claimed he could smell from out at sea. The island has been isolated long enough to have generated its own species and its own fiercely independent culture.
The Laricio pine forests of the interior are unique to the island and grow to great age and size. The mouflon, a wild sheep, still roams the high ground. The coast, meanwhile, holds some of the clearest water and best-preserved marine habitat in the Mediterranean, and the reserve at Scandola was one of the first marine protected areas in Europe.
The organizations here defend the interior forests against fire, which is the constant threat in a maquis landscape, protect the marine reserves from the pressure of summer boat traffic, and resist coastal development on an island whose beauty is its economy and its vulnerability.
Environmental Organizations in This Bioregion
3 organizations working across this landscape.
Conservatoire d'espaces naturels Corse
Biodiversity, wildlife, protection, corsica, france, save
J'aime ma mer
Sensibilisation à la pollution plastique dans les écoles et dépollutions de plage
Mare Vivu
Mare Vivu mobilise toute une jeunesse engagée pour étudier, alerter et aider nos décideurs à préserver notre Méditerranée.