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Before requesting a link, you should have a link to ProvenceBeyond.
Links verified 2 Feb 2007
Birds and Butterflies
Bird Watching in Northern France - information and links (English)
Birding on the Net - with European links
the Canadian Peregrine Foundation - has live camera coverage of peregrine falcon nests.
Electronic Resources on Ornithology
Raptor Centor at the Univeresity of Minnesota
Flora, including Gardens
The Alpine Garden - good photos and good information; among other things, learn how even you can create a rock garden. Also a great, well-organized Links section for flora webs
Valderoure Flowers Flora of our region of Provence (by Eric Rowe, contributor to the flora in Beyond)
Fleuriste branché (a unique service) This Canadian site will remind you when your important dates are imminent (French, English) - This is a pioneer site, one of the first on the internet, and the very first Francophone on-line florist shop, and we've linked to them since when we first started in 1995.
The Flower Expert (English)
INRA - Antibes (French, English) (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique) - the institute has a research center on the Cap d'Antibes, with a botanical garden open to the public.
The Lavander Museum - their own web page (French, English, German)
The Lavander Museum
(Beyond page) with basic location and opening-hours information (English
Lavander in Tuscany - Casina di Rosa; vacation house and thematic tour (English)
Links for Plant People
The Olive Tree World - culture and history, and everything else about the olive tree
Orchidées de Provence - very thorough and technical information about the Orchids of Provence, with excellent photos.
Taxonomy of Flowering Plants (Hugh D. Wilson) - Fagaceae - Beach, Oak
Warp Zone - a Finnish web with lists of scientific names and common (English) names for plants, mammals, birds, fish and others.
CretanVista Site News - Yes, a Cretan site, with flora photos, among other things. We had a great welcome here by Wilf and Pam while wandering the hills of Crete looking for birds and flowers.
Nature
Grotte Chauvet Pont-d'Arc by the French Culture web (French
Grotte Cosquer (Marseille) (mistral.culture) Grotto with paleolithic art (French)
Grotte Cosquer (Marseille) (Cogito) Grotto with paleolithic art (French, English)
Grotte Cosquer (Marseille) (JLVillon) Grotto with paleolithic art (French)
Grotte de Lascaux by the French Culture web (English, French, German, Spanish)
Rupestre RockArt (Monte Bego Petroglyphs) Iron-Age rock art in the Vallée des Mervilles (English)
Planete Passion Conservation, Wildlife & The Environment - locally for the Poitou-Charantes region, but equally valuable for France in general (English, Italian, French)
Nature - Provence-Beyond
(Beyond page) includes sub-sections on Birds, Flora and Fauna of this region
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