Discover the commitments behind the Canal
Find here the structural commitments of the Société du Canal Seine-Nord Europe and the project partners.
Discover the commitments behind the Canal
Find here the structural commitments of the Société du Canal Seine-Nord Europe and the project partners.
You are more than 600 to have wished to welcome a birdhouse in your garden and we thank you for your interest in this approach. We hope that a brood was able to settle in your nest box and that you enjoyed beautiful moments of observation. We invite you to complete the 2022 nesting monitoring sheet on this link. Your observations are invaluable to enable us to carry out the scientific monitoring of the operation.
Along the route of the future Seine-Nord Europe Canal, works intended to make way for construction sites started this autumn in the Nord Compiégnois. These operations are accompanied by actions to limit the impact on fauna and flora. It is in this process that the Société du Canal Seine-Nord Europe (SCSNE) proposed at the beginning of January 2022 to the inhabitants of the following municipalities to participate in the operation “Les nichoirs du Canal”: Cambronne-lès-Ribécourt, Chiry-Ourscamp, Clairoix, Choisy-au-Bac, Janville, Longueil-Annel, Montmacq, Passel, Pimprez, Le Plessis-Brion, Pont-l'Evêque, Ribécourt-Dreslincourt, Saint-Léger-aux -Wood, Thourotte.
 | I act to preserve nature The SCSNE has launched an appeal to the voluntary inhabitants of the communes of Nord Compiégnois neighboring the future Canal, to welcome a birdhouse in their garden in order to create alternative habitats. This pilot operation is carried out over 5 nesting seasons. It will be extended from 2023 to the other municipalities crossed by the Canal. |
 | Why nest boxes? Birds spend a large part of their lives in hedgerows, thickets, edges and woods, both to feed and rest and to reproduce there. The construction of the Seine-Nord Europe Canal requires freeing up the land, by clearing and deforesting. This can impact bird habitat. The installation of nest boxes in the gardens located near the construction site is thus a simple way of offering birds a solution for setting up their nests and raising their young. |
 | How does it work? Following your registration, you will receive your birdhouse. Install it in your garden at the beginning of March, before the nesting period which lasts until summer. Then, observe the birds that settle there throughout the year and learn to recognize them. At the end of the summer and for 5 years, share your observations with the SCSNE and thus contribute to the scientific monitoring of the operation. |
Added September 6, 2022 - Updated September 14, 2022
When designing a development project, we assess very precisely its impact on the environment (fauna, flora, water, soil, etc.). The Canal project is designed to avoid or minimize these impacts. When this is not possible, however, environmental improvements are made to compensate for them.
The Canal's environmental compensation program aims to achieve and even exceed ecological equivalence. That is to sayIn the long term, all of the environmental developments will make it possible to protect and increase biodiversity in the territory, compared to the situation today.
More than 1 hectares of natural sites will thus be restored or created to develop a variety of habitats (wetlands, dry meadows, spawning grounds, hedgerows, woodlots) favorable to biodiversity.
The first environmental developments even began in 2017 in the Oise.
If you have any questions, see our Frequently Asked Questions:
Added September 6, 2022
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