Nature, biodiversity and green management
The camping area occupies about a third; grasslands, ponds, an orchard and many small landscape elements make up the rest. Especially the newly created orchard with 50 fruit trees, bordered by a mixed hedge, increases biodiversity.
Throughout the estate flows a fast-flowing but very charming mountain stream, fed by springs a little higher up. Nearby, an industrious beaver builds a fortress. Large water annelids, dragonflies, damselflies, amphibians and many other insects enjoy this blue wealth to the full. A foraging black stork was spotted in spring 2021, busy looking for some goodies for its young.
In the wet surroundings of the brooklet, pinky, dotter, true cuckoo-flowers, marsh forget-me-not, meadowsweet, true valerian and bald junipers colour the spring and summer abundantly.
Many insects enjoy this richly varied feast table.
More than 40 species of birds have also been spotted. These include kingfisher, cormorant, little grebe, tufted duck, bittern, herons, black stork, red kite, goldfinch and goldfinch.
Green management is adapted to the different biotopes. The campsite is managed more as a garden. In the remaining and largest part, phased mowing and pruning management applies. This avoids a detrimental clearcut for fauna and flora.
The horse, the sheep, the goats, the pigs, the rabbits and the poultry help manage the grasslands. Some donkeys and alpacas also graze bravely along.
Camping Trois Fontaines and its natural surroundings make it a very pleasant place to be for people, animals and plants.
