Un secret de steppe

La SCOP les Fées Spéciales et les biologistes de la Réserve naturelle nationale des Coussouls de Crau mettent leurs arts et leurs connaissances en commun pour apporter un nouveau regard sur le Criquet de Crau. Un film d'animation de 3 minutes basé sur les résultats issus de la recherche scientifique et de sa gestion conservatoire rappelle son existence et celle des espèces discrètes souvent oubliées de la Plaine de la Crau. Ce film est produit par le Conservatoire d'espaces naturels Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur et la Chambre agriculture13, co-gestionnaires de la Réserve naturelle nationale des Coussouls de Crau. En partenariat avec WWF-Fond mondial pour la nature, National Géographic Society, DREAL PACA, Conseil départemental 13 et Carrière de la Menudelle.

Posted by Conservatoire d’espaces naturels de Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur - CEN PACA on Wednesday, May 15, 2019


We're proud to have made the sound design for this little animated film about the Crau Plain Grasshopper known in France has "Criquet de la Crau". We've teamed up with the animation studio "Les Fées Spéciales" and the biologists of the natural national park of Coussouls in the Crau Step, to shine a light on this little endangered orthoptera. This short animated film of 3 minutes is based on the results of research made by scientists studying the area, and reminds the existence of this endemic orthoptera and other species so discrete they're often unfairly forgotten in the Crau Step landscape.

We strongly believe that our work as label absolutely includes collaborative work with scientific fields of research, and are proud that we had the chance to contribute to helping raise awareness over a subject of that kind, however small it might seem. The ecological implications of industrial planning over lands that took millenias to grow a unique kind of ecosystem is a very serious matter, and creating a music that makes you both feel the beauty and variety of species that can inhabit a desert, and the danger of industrial complexes and the destruction that their construction imply in zones that we falsely deem “empty constructible spaces” are a challenging thing to convey at all at once in a 3 minutes span. For this reason and many others, we sincerely hope we helped.