Exhibition Trees, the forest living heritage of our countryside
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.