The Charter, adopted by decree of the Prime Minister on April 22, 2025, sets out the objectives to be achieved, the guidelines for protecting, enhancing, and developing the Park’s territory, as well as the measures to implement them.
Its validity period is 15 years.
It is approved by all its signatories: the State, Regions, Departments, as well as all municipalities, intercommunal authorities (Communautés de Communes and Agglomérations), and partner towns within the territory.
The current Charter of the Normandie-Maine Regional Natural Park and UNESCO Global Geopark (2024–2039) is structured around 3 ambitions, 7 strategic directions, and 24 measures.
AMBITION 1 - BUILD A COOPERATIVE TERRITORY
Direction 1.1 | Inhabitants as co-authors of resilience
M1. Welcome, inform, raise awareness
M2. Strengthen local networks to support an inclusive and united territory
M3. Bet on youth
M4. Culture as a powerful lever for belonging
M5. Inhabitants as craftsmen of tomorrow’s landscapes
Direction 1.2 | Knowledge-sharing as a pillar of an agile and forward-looking territory
M6. Improve knowledge and its dissemination
M7. A territory of research, connected to research
M8. From local to global, and from global to local
AMBITION 2 - STRENGTHEN THE CONNECTION TO NATURE TO PROTECT AND RESTORE BIODIVERSITY
Direction 2.1 | Promote natural heritage and recognize everyday nature as heritage
M9. Consolidate the protection and management of species and sites of high ecological value
M10. Protect and share the memory of the Earth
M11. Acknowledge everyday nature as a form of heritage
Direction 2.2 | Restore biodiversity in service of human and ecosystem health
M12. Support the maintenance and functionality of ecological corridors
M13. Maximize diversity to increase adaptive capacity
M14. Improve environmental health to benefit human health
Direction 2.3 | Consider the tree as a key player in resilience
M15. Promote restorative agroforestry across our bocage landscapes
M16. Preserve generous refuge environments: the forests
AMBITION 3 - EMBRACE SOBRIETY AS A DRIVER OF PROGRESS AND ATTRACTIVENESS
Direction 3.1 | Foster high-quality local economic sectors in symbiosis with the territory
M17. Relocalize food systems and support quality labeling
M18. Guide the territory toward a regenerative economy
M19. Develop geotourism as a new territorial tourism sector
M20. Encourage a sustainable, regenerative local economy around wood resources
Direction 3.2 | Frugality as a response to resource depletion
M21. Promote ambitious and resilient planning of towns and villages
M22. Unite stakeholders around water sharing
M23. Create and sustain a decentralized, decarbonized, and equitable energy system
M24. Maintain living soils and treat them as an exhaustible resource