The Quatre-Ponts walk

Description

Following the Quatre-Ponts nature reserve, you'll come to the mill of the same name, which has now disappeared.

The wet meadow at Quatre-Ponts is part of a large group of valley bottoms in the Haute-Sûre watershed set up as nature reserves by Natagora. These biodiversity conservation plots are linked by a network of watercourses protected by the Natura 2000 decree, encouraging the movement and genetic mixing of populations of birds, insects and other species. The hedges, copses and flowering roadsides that line this walk also contribute to the proper functioning of this ecological network.

The 2.6 ha of the "Quatre-Ponts" reserve are home to the peacock and copper butterflies, two emblematic butterflies of the Ardennes that are threatened at European level due to the disappearance of their habitat. Their caterpillars can only develop by eating the leaves of bistort knotweed, a plant typical of wet meadows.

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