This documentary presents the fauna and flora of an unusual and endangered environment: the wooded countryside, or “bocage”, characteristic of Northern France.

Shaped by extensive livestock farming, this terrain is incredibly rich: plants, insects, birds and mammals benefit from the numerous hedges, meadows, ponds and wetlands that this ecosystem offers.

Unfortunately, today livestock farming has a bad press and more and more hedges are being ripped out in favour of large-scale cereal monocultures, completely devoid of any animal life.

However, the preservation of an extensive breeding model will result in the preservation of a rich ecosystem, generating a whole section of the country's biodiversity.