Réserve Naturelle Nationale de Carlaveyron

Installed in a glacial amphitheater, the Carlaveyron nature reserve is like an aquatic garden made up of streams, lakes, marshes, peat bogs and "gouilles", the local name designating small bodies of water.
The upper part is reserved for the glaciers that shaped the plateau.
Humidity and altitude determine the establishment of a specific and rare flora. Peat bogs and low marshes are particularly home to the Emerald of the Alps, a dragonfly that likes high altitude peatlands where the sundew, the narrow-leaved bur-reed or the Magellanic sedge grow, a plant rarity present in France only in Savoie and Haute- Savoy. It is also the territory of the common frog and the alpine newt which, during the reproduction period, puts on its nuptial livery, a fiery red belly and returns to its pond for a biennial spawning.
The Vogealle sector is conducive to the presence of the black grouse which likes the mosaics of environments where blueberry moors, rhododendrons and dry alpine lawns follow one another. When the weather is fine, Alpine ibexes and chamois feast on blueberries and drink from the Aiguillette lake.
In the extension of the Aiguilles Rouges nature reserve, on the northwest flank, the beech-fir forest of the Diosaz gorges is home to rare and endangered species. It is in the damp coombs, the shaded ravines and the gneiss rocks covered with moss that the lynx coexists with the hazel grouse, the golden eagle and the three-toed woodpecker.
This medium and high mountain site is a real gem which offers unspoiled nature to be discovered throughout the year.

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