Since 1984, the Ille-et-Vilaine Hunting Federation has been restoring a 550-ha peat marsh heavily drained and cropped in the 20th century. Maize fields were converted to hay meadows and pasture through agreements with farmers; a peat bog and a reedbed were restored; and water levels are artificially managed to enable winter flooding. The Méleuc was re-routed into a more natural course. The goals (improve staging conditions for migratory waterbirds and recover marsh functions (carbon sequestration, natural water purification)) have been met for bird use, while water-level management still needs optimisation. Recent sources add that the site forms part of the Ramsar “Bay of Mont-Saint-Michel” and its Natura 2000 network; roughly 380 ha are held by FDC35 and the Foundation for the Protection of Wildlife Habitats. A major reedbed project (“Bois de la Mare”) cleared poplar/spruce to restore ~16 ha of phragmites as compensation linked to the Mont-Saint-Michel maritime project, awarded France’s Ecological Engineering Prize in 2018. Management relies on mowing then grazing via agreements with about twenty farmers; hunting is excluded except targeted wild-boar control, and guided public activities are now offered. In 2021 the regional scientific council (CSRPN) issued a favourable opinion toward designation as a Regional Nature Reserve over a 768-ha perimeter (process ongoing). Winter counts report up to c. 6,000 anatids.

More than half of the territory of the regional natural park of the Millevaches in Limousin (PNR) is covered with forest, some of which is the subject of intensive forestry exploitation. A peat bog restoration project in the headwater sector of the catchment area was initiated between the PNR (project manager) and the forestry cooperative Bourgogne Limousin (technical partner). The goal was to remove the softwood stand from the single-species plantation on the plot in order to restore the hydrological functioning of the peat bog. The work was carried out by aerial skidding using a cable mast. In addition to initiating collaboration between forestry and environmental management, the project has made it possible to restore the natural hydrological functioning of the bog and the associated specific habitats.