2300 people for a CLEAN Loire

The Loire Valley World Heritage site is a living cultural landscape, with historic towns and villages, great monuments and areas fashioned by centuries of interaction between inhabitants and their environment, including the river itself. 

And it was the sad realisation that antisocial behaviour was increasing at a depressing rate day by day that motivated the Chasseurs de Loire to initiate the project. 

From source to estuary, the Chasseurs de Loire, with the participation of Fédérations Départementales des Chasseurs, numerous other hunting, fishing, sports and Loire mariners’ associations, anonymous riverside residents and local officials, expressed their love for the royal river. The warmest of welcomes was extended to all volunteers. 

Packsaddled donkeys and teams of horses to collect and transport the bags of litter to the dustcarts and mariners’ boats to ferry volunteers to inaccessible islets all added to the pleasure of doing something really worthwhile for our terroir. 

On the web:

• Full report on the operation on the Association des chasseurs des oiseaux migrateurs du Loiret website