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Biodiversity

Biodiversity

Biodiversity, a contraction of the term biological diversity, represents all living species present on Earth (plants, animals, microorganisms, etc.), the communities formed by these species and the habitats in which they live. With a vast green campus where many living species coexist (animals, plants, human beings), INSA Rennes is implementing actions to preserve this wealth and make it grow.

 

 

  • Management of green spaces at INSA Rennes, priority for biodiversity

The INSA Rennes is home to a rich biological diversity preserved in particular by the “Zero Pesticide” approach initiated in 2006 by Didier Marchand, Manager of Green Spaces and his team. By choosing to ban the use of pesticides, new practices have emerged: “For example, we do mechanical weeding and clearing and let certain weeds such as dandelions disappear naturally.“
Another example, the institute's Green Space service has set up a certain number of nest boxes and roosts for local wildlife (birds, bats, hedgehogs and even wild bees).

 

  • The Environment Club: “reducing the ecological footprint of our campus”

The Environment Club is a club of the INSA Rennes Student Association. Since 2007, these members have been carrying out various actions to act against the deterioration of their immediate environment: raising awareness among INSA students and staff about environmental problems and their solutions, creating and maintaining a shared garden in the heart of the campus, setting up a bicycle rental/repair service, etc.

Under the leadership of the INSA Rennes Environment Club, a public bicycle pump was inaugurated on the campus. This student association decided to install this public bicycle pump whose objective is to facilitate the use of bicycles for students and neighbors of the Beaulieu campus.

 

  • A "seeds self-service" at the Library

We don't just find books at the INSA Rennes library! A small self-service box has invited everyone to come and pick up seeds (flowers, vegetables, fruits) and leave some in return. All varieties can be shared, as long as the seeds deposited are reproducible and not hybrid (old varieties in general, which will reproduce identically generation after generation). Concretely, all you have to do is place the seeds in the small bags provided, indicating the name of the variety, the date and the place of harvest.