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Patrimoine & Culture
Vallée de l'Aube
📍 Auberive, Haute-Marne
· 52160 Auberive
À propos
This beautiful, well-preserved valley can be explored by car or bike (on the D20), between Auberive and Dancevoir, in search of Mother Nature's hidden secrets.
For nature lovers :
The upper Aube valley and its tributaries (Germainelle and Vivey streams) represent a vast, well-preserved complex of aquatic environments and grassland biotopes, rich in flora and fauna. This submontane alluvial valley boasts remarkable vegetation in more ways than one: more or less humid meadows, mown or more frequently grazed (Arrhenatherion elatioris, Oenanthion fistulosae, Bromion racemosi), tufa or peat marshes, magnocariçaies (Caricion rostratae), filipendulaies, more rarely alluvial woodlands (Alno-Padion, Salicion albae) and very locally woodlands on the plateau and underlying slopes (breeding and summering area for the black stork), etc.
Vegetation :
Numerous rare or protected plant species can be found here: poet's narcissus (highly endangered and declining sharply over the past 25 years), monkshood, creeping willow, narrow-segmented buttercup, wintergreen, spatulate-leaved ragwort and a fern, marsh thelypteris. All are protected at regional level and most are on the Champagne-Ardenne red list, along with an orchid, incarnate orchid, paradoxical sedge, smooth elm, German cynoglossus and a small fern, ophioglossus.
Fauna:
A dragonfly typical of small, cold valleys, the agrion de Mercure, frequents the river's fast-flowing waters: highly endangered in Europe, it has been protected in France since 1993, listed in appendices II and IV of the Habitat Directive and the Bern Convention, in the Red Book of endangered fauna in France (in the endangered category for the north of the country) and on the Red List of insects in Champagne-Ardenne.
Fish are highly characteristic of clear, unpolluted waters, with trout, the planer lamprey, protected in France since 1988, and the sculpin, both listed under the Habitats Directive.
Amphibians and reptiles are well represented, and include rare and declining species such as the spadefoot toad and the green and yellow snake, protected in France (since 1993) and in Europe (Appendix II of the Bern Convention) and included on the regional red list, along with the salamander and asp viper.
The avifauna includes a variety of passerines, including the rare and dwindling nesting Anteater, on the Champagne-Ardenne red list of birds, birds of prey (Red Kite, Buzzard, Sparrowhawk), the Black Stork (summering and breeding site on the plateau included in the ZNIEFF) and the Dipper, both of which are also on the regional red list.
Daubenton's vespertilion, a bat on the regional red list of mammals, can also be seen here.
This highly scenic site has been proposed for the Habitats Directive. The valley is still in good condition, despite the risk of expanding corn cultivation: in excellent condition between Rouvres-Arbot and Bay-sur-Aube (over 80% hay meadows), well preserved as far as Vivey, it is in a precarious state between Dancevoir and Bay-sur-Aube (numerous crops).
For nature lovers :
The upper Aube valley and its tributaries (Germainelle and Vivey streams) represent a vast, well-preserved complex of aquatic environments and grassland biotopes, rich in flora and fauna. This submontane alluvial valley boasts remarkable vegetation in more ways than one: more or less humid meadows, mown or more frequently grazed (Arrhenatherion elatioris, Oenanthion fistulosae, Bromion racemosi), tufa or peat marshes, magnocariçaies (Caricion rostratae), filipendulaies, more rarely alluvial woodlands (Alno-Padion, Salicion albae) and very locally woodlands on the plateau and underlying slopes (breeding and summering area for the black stork), etc.
Vegetation :
Numerous rare or protected plant species can be found here: poet's narcissus (highly endangered and declining sharply over the past 25 years), monkshood, creeping willow, narrow-segmented buttercup, wintergreen, spatulate-leaved ragwort and a fern, marsh thelypteris. All are protected at regional level and most are on the Champagne-Ardenne red list, along with an orchid, incarnate orchid, paradoxical sedge, smooth elm, German cynoglossus and a small fern, ophioglossus.
Fauna:
A dragonfly typical of small, cold valleys, the agrion de Mercure, frequents the river's fast-flowing waters: highly endangered in Europe, it has been protected in France since 1993, listed in appendices II and IV of the Habitat Directive and the Bern Convention, in the Red Book of endangered fauna in France (in the endangered category for the north of the country) and on the Red List of insects in Champagne-Ardenne.
Fish are highly characteristic of clear, unpolluted waters, with trout, the planer lamprey, protected in France since 1988, and the sculpin, both listed under the Habitats Directive.
Amphibians and reptiles are well represented, and include rare and declining species such as the spadefoot toad and the green and yellow snake, protected in France (since 1993) and in Europe (Appendix II of the Bern Convention) and included on the regional red list, along with the salamander and asp viper.
The avifauna includes a variety of passerines, including the rare and dwindling nesting Anteater, on the Champagne-Ardenne red list of birds, birds of prey (Red Kite, Buzzard, Sparrowhawk), the Black Stork (summering and breeding site on the plateau included in the ZNIEFF) and the Dipper, both of which are also on the regional red list.
Daubenton's vespertilion, a bat on the regional red list of mammals, can also be seen here.
This highly scenic site has been proposed for the Habitats Directive. The valley is still in good condition, despite the risk of expanding corn cultivation: in excellent condition between Rouvres-Arbot and Bay-sur-Aube (over 80% hay meadows), well preserved as far as Vivey, it is in a precarious state between Dancevoir and Bay-sur-Aube (numerous crops).
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