News | Video: in the Vaucluse, bats suspend work on the A7

What animal can suspend a large-scale building site of several million for several months? A hint: it is 24 cm long and weighs 15 grams. Chiroptera, better known as bats, found refuge in one of the boxes of the Bonpas viaduct in the Vaucluse during the summer.

Indeed, nearly 200 females are almost ready to give birth to baby bats. They will then educate them for several months. It is in this context that Vinci Autoroutes took the decision to suspend the renovation work on the viaduct twice to allow this protected species not to disturb their life cycles. A planned break in the timing of the work originally.

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