The forest, considered more and more as «a common good», yet subject to the right of property, we asked ourselves this question: Do we really know the trees and the forest?
The purpose of this exhibition is to present to visitors, its life, its structure, its balance (forest-humans-fauna). We want this exhibition to be interactive with our visitors, adults or children.
Île-de-France, with 263,000 ha of forest, has an afforestation rate of 23%, very close to the national average (26%). The highly urbanized context of the region (18% of the French population is concentrated on 1.9% of the national territory) creates, among the Ile-de-France, a special attachment to the forest as a place of recreation and relaxation. With 80 million visits per year, state forests are first and foremost considered a common good to be maintained and protected. But it is in a balance of the different uses of the forest - productive, environmental and recreational - that we must imagine its future.