The emblem of the Carroux is the mouflon, but you can also find wild boar, squirrels, lizards, foxes and ,of course, many birds ( more than 247 species) and plenty of different insects.

The flora is richly diverse you will find green oak, various conifers, beech, chestnuts and broom.

LE MOUFLON

Introduced in 1956, it is perfectly adapted to the southern mountains.

The wild mouflon, an ancester of the domestic sheep had practically disappeared from continental Europe in the 19th century. Today its population of about a thousand has become the most important in metropolitan France.