Given the increasingly tight financial constraints facing local governments, one question often comes up: How can you fund your black infrastructure?

Good news: the Lum’ACTEE+ program, led by ACTEE (FNCCR), can assist you with the implementation of black infrastructure. 

Specifically, Lum’ACTEE+ allows you to:

At TerrOïko, we firmly believe that a career is, above all, shaped by the people you meet and the passions you pursue.

And Christophe Plotard’s journey is a perfect example of this.

During his time at TerrOïko, Christophe served as Communications Manager, while also working with DarkSkyLab, our long-standing partner, as a Research and Web Projects Manager.

Take a proactive local authority, two consulting firms with complementary expertise, and recommendations that can be immediately implemented in the field.

In a short time, you will see concrete changes that benefit biodiversity.

This is exactly what happened a few weeks ago in the town of Saint-Louis, in Alsace.

TerrOïko and DarkSkyLab were commissioned to identify the town's dark sky areas and propose associated public lighting management actions.

In just a few days, the local authority took action to implement several of our recommendations:

To better preserve biodiversity on an international scale, an article published today in the journal Landscape Ecology calls for a broad rethinking of the concept of “ecological networks”, as well as the causes of their fragmentation and the means to preserve them.