Wetlands - Inventory Haute-Garonne

**Wetlands are transitional areas between land and water that host****many animal and plant species.** The Environment Code defines them as ‘land, whether exploited or not, usually flooded or full of fresh, salty or brackish water permanently or temporarily; vegetation, where it exists, is dominated by hygrophilic plants for at least part of the year’. * * * **The Department of Ecological Transition** of the Haute-Garonne Departmental Council carried out a departmental inventory of wetlands, finalized in 2016. This inventory has an informative and non-regulatory scope. It reflects the current state of knowledge but is not intended to be exhaustive. The dataset presents the contours of the Haute-Garonne wetlands, their summary description and the methodology used to carry out the inventory. Reports are available for download to supplement this information. _**Data producers:**_ the [Conseil départemental de la Haute-Garonne] (https://www.haute-garonne.fr/) on the department (except on the Garonne axis), Nature in Occitanie (only on the Garonne axis) **_Providers:_** [Ecotone Research and Environment](http://www.ecotone.fr/), [Nature in Occitanie](http://www.naturemp.org/). **_Financers:_** [Agence de l'Eau Adour-Garonne](http://www.eau-adour-garonne.fr/en/index.html), [European Regional Development Fund](http://www.europe-en-france.gouv.fr/L-Europe-s-engage/Fonds-europeens-2014-2020/Politique-de-cohesion-economique-sociale-et-territoriale/FEDER) (ERDF). **Departmental wetland conservatory**, a unique tool in France: [more...](https://www.garonne-amont.fr/le-conservatoire-departemental-de-zones-humides-un-outil-unique-en-france/) * * *