France has 10 national parks located across its territories that aim to protect areas of natural, cultural and landscape significance. Two of the parks described are the Parc national des Calanques located near Marseille which conserves 140 plant and animal species, and the Parc national des Cévennes spanning three departments that is home to over 2,400 vertebrate species including 20 bat species. The document provides further details on the location, biodiversity, and municipalities included in these and other French national parks.

1. National Parks in France
France has 10 national parks within its territory, including 3 overseas territories. Each
space is bringing a natural, cultural and landscape exception.
Parc national des Calanques
Création du parc : 18 avril 2012
Location
Department : Bouches du Rhône
Region: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Commons: 3 heart (Marseille, Cassis and La Ciotat) and 3 membership
(Marseille, Cassis and La Penne-sur-Huveaune) area
Biodiversity: 140 terrestrial plant and animal species protected; 60 heritage
marine species.

2. Parc national des Cévennes
Création du parc : 2 septembre 1970
Location
Departments: Lozère (48) Gard (30) and Ardeche (07)
Region: Languedoc-Roussillon and Rhone Alps
Commons: 152 (55 partially Heart Park)
Flora : rich and diverse (11,000 species, 2,250 flowering plants), with
remarkable and endemic plant associations, particularly in peatlands Mont Lozère
and Mont Aigoual in the pseudo-steppe caussenarde, unique in France, and in
the anthropogenic Cevennes chestnut.
Fauna: 2410 species of vertebrates, 45% and 2/3 of mammals that are found in

3. France. 20 bat species on 30 recencés in France. Many raptors highly
threatened: golden eagle, short-toed Jean-le-Blanc, peregrine falcon, great
horned owl ... Site privileged location of griffon vulture, Egyptian monk, and the
bearded vulture.
Situation
Department: Hautes-Alpes (05) and Isère (38)
Region: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur and Rhône-Alpes
Common: 61 (including 26 partially Heart Park)

4. situation
Departments: Alpes-Maritimes (06) and Alpes-de-Haute-Provence (04)
Region: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Common: 28 (27 partially in the heart of the park)
Flora: the highest diversity at the national level with 2,000 species of plants, including
200 rare and 30 endemic.
Fauna: 58 species of mammals - including seven wild ungulates found in France and the
wolf - and 153 species of birds, unique encounters with the world as the Siberian boreal
owl or owl little Duke of North Africa.

5. situation
Department: Pyrénées-Atlantiques (64) and the Hautes-Pyrénées (65
Region: Aquitaine and Midi-Pyrenees
Common: 86 (including 16 partially Heart Park)

6. Flora: 1200 species recorded, of which 107 are protected.
Wildlife: 2600 ibex, chamois 6000, 125 breeding bird species - twenty pairs of golden
eagles and three pairs of bearded.