Natural site protected from Boucherette (Lugny)

The site of Boucherette , located on the territory of the commune of Lugny, is a natural site protected from a hundred hectares which the regional management of the Environment of Burgundy manages.

A long time communal pasture after being planted in vine until the appearance of the Phylloxéra in the years 1880, Boucherette, being established on the southern slope of the wood of Charvençon, recently was arranged following its classification in natural Zone of ecological, faunistic and floristic interest (or “znieff”). The site is discovered since June 2000 by borrowing a path natural and discovered marked out which, reserved with the pedestrians, was equipped with panels allowing the discovery of a remarkable fauna and a flora. In addition to the green Lizard, Mante nun and very many birds, a dozen Orchises and about fifty species of trees were listed there.

This remarkable site is characterized by a vegetation claiming of the hot and dry conditions, as well as a calcareous basement: pubescent oak grove, moor with boxwood and calcareous lawn dries (or “teppe”). One finds a former “lavière there” - from where one extracted these stones punts used formerly to cover certain roofs - as well as a career which, opened in the middle of the XVIIIe century, was used in particular in the Twenties with construction of the buildings of the cooperative wine cave as Lugny.

Boucherette still constituted a few years ago, before the acceleration of climate warming, the northern limit of the surface of distribution of the small mountain cicada. There one recently could see a common cicada.

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