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This is the percentage of native plant species on the island threatened with extinction., selon un bilan dressé fin 2023 par l'Union internationale pour la conservation de la nature. Compared to a first assessment established in 2010, 95 of the 962 native species listed are seeing their situation worsen. In this context, the IUCN calls “to significantly strengthen conservation actions, to stop....

Loss of autonomy at home is more common in Reunion : according to an INSEE study, 11% of residents aged 60 or over living at home were in this situation in 2021, or 19,000 people, compared to 7% in France. Réunion is one of 16 French departments where the loss of autonomy at home is significantly....

Agnès Pannier-Runacher, then Minister of Ecological Transition, presented at the end of December an overseas addition to the action plan for the acceleration of geothermal energy, presented in February 2023 and which aims to quadruple the production of geothermal heat in France. It consists of five measures : creation of a strategic consultation body on geothermal energy..

The grand prize for the collective approach of the 2023-2024 Agroecology Trophies was awarded at the beginning of January 2024 to the GIEE (economic and environmental interest group) UHPR “Integrated Biological Protection” (Union of horticulturists and nurserymen of Reunion Island). The economic and environmental interest group is a system officially recognized by the State to encourage agroecology in France. That of the UHPR is devoted..

The Albioma group announced at the end of December the acquisition of a wood pellet production plant in Tuan, located in the state of Queensland, in Australia. The factory's raw material is residue supplied under long-term agreements by the region's major sawmills., who transform wood from sustainably managed forests. Factory, operational ...

L'Écocité de La Réunion a présenté en décembre les quatre projets lauréats de son appel à projets Kréolab, intended to arouse the design of innovative real estate programs, prefiguring the "tropical city of tomorrow", by multidisciplinary groups. In Saint-Paul, A project imagined by CBO Territoria was selected for the "City entry" site, not far from the media library, on...

Continuing the transfer protocol signed in 2019 with SHLMR (Action Housing group), the latter is gradually acquiring the residential assets held by CBo Territoria in three residences delivered in 2015 and 2016 in Beauséjour (Sainte-Marie). These are the Anthurium residences (63 housing units and 107 parking spaces), Canopy 2 (45 logements et 90 places de...

The Chamber of Notaries of Reunion and Mayotte officially launched its mediation center at the end of 2023. This service aims to save time and money for all parties, in situations that can be resolved amicably. The mediation center is chaired by Me Sylvie Pons-Servel. Sa création marque une étape...

On October 27, EDF Renewables inaugurated a solar power plant with a capacity of 4,6 MWc, which will provide the equivalent of the annual electricity consumption of 4,500 people, i.e. 14% of the population of the commune of Port, where it is located. The power plant was built on the site of a former illegal dump., sur la rive droite de la rivière...

Organized by the National Union of Municipal Social Action Centers (UNCCAS), the first overseas solidarity meetings were held in Reunion from November 15 to 17. Mayors and their solidarity deputies, UNCCAS members, called for a burst of national mobilization and a vast investment and social development plan for overseas territories, aux multiples...