Sheep tend the salt marshes on the Guérande Peninsula

Guérande - 30 July 2026: Where machinery can barely make progress, a flock of sheep takes over landscape management. Young shepherd Léa lets her animals graze in the salt marshes on the Guérande Peninsula. There, they eat grasses and other plants spreading along edges, on embankments and in unused areas. A report on France 2's midday news presents the grazing as an important contribution to preserving the salt-marsh landscape.The salt marshes are a cultural landscape shaped over centuries. A finely coordinated system of basins, embankments and waterways channels seawater through ...