Manifest for a living Camargue

The Camargue is beautiful and attractive thanks to the efforts of those who create wealth here.

These are the people involved in agriculture and livestock farming, industry, tourism, hunting and fishing, services, trade and transport, all the businesses that have set up here to bring it to life, to create income, jobs and heritage. These are the craftsmen and artists, and all its inhabitants who admire it every day.

The landscapes they have built are the fruit of long experience and interventionism that never ceases.

In the Camargue, nature is the product of culture. It exists thanks to a very ancient civilization, but one that is still very much alive and dynamic, constantly questioning its environment, the constraints it imposes, and the opportunities it offers.

None of the Camargue's economic players can accept that it should today be the object of a policy of withdrawal and renunciation.

To accept “renaturation”, i.e. abandonment in the name of climate change, is to condemn the living, economically productive Camargue to extinction.

Salt remains a rich resource and an asset for the Camargue. Its threat can easily be contained and regulated if we so wish. For the economy, jobs, landscapes, birds and biodiversity. For everyone, in fact.

The Camargue can be protected if we want to.

Having been present in the Camargue for one hundred and fifty years, and having played a key role in its development, the Salins du Midi company has decided to continue using its powerful resources to defend a living, dynamic Camargue.

Indispensable to France's food, energy and strategic sovereignty, Les Salins du Midi is committed, along with all Camargue stakeholders who wish to join it, to protecting the Camargue as a productive, yet protective, place for landscapes, jobs, wealth and nature.

We call on all those who wish to keep the Camargue alive to join us.

Hubert François, President of Salins du Midi