Bocages et vergers du sud Pays d'Auge translated as the Bocages and orchards of the southern Pays d'Auge is a Natura 2000 conservation area that is 21,511 hectares in size.
[1] The area is a well-preserved wooded landscape that features dense hedges which shelter old trees whose pollarding has allowed cavities to appear in these trees, suitable for certain types of insects.
[2] The area is mostly agricultural with 5 % being scrubland and the remaining 5% being forested.
[1] It is spread across 30 different communes all within the Orne department;[1]
The conservation area has three species of insect listed in Annex 2 of the Habitats Directive;[3]