By joining the Aéro Biodiversité association in 2019, Roland-Garros airport started with the latter and with the assistance of Séor (Reunion Island Ornithological Studies Society) a study of the flora and fauna present on its site. Green spaces represent more than half of the total surface area of the airport area and the meadows around the runways represent particularly vast spaces.. Around ten species of birds have been recorded, including papangue and “z’oiseau blanc”, endemic, Thus, Alas, as stranded Barau petrels. The airport is also home to colonies of “small mastiffs”, bats (bat), also endemic. By identifying and protecting this biodiversity, Roland-Garros airport aims to obtain the Aérobio label, like Orly, from Perpignan and Tarbes-Lourdes, first labeled French airports.
THE BIODIVERSITY OF ROLAND-GARROS AIRPORT BETTER KNOWN
