Overview
- The regional prefect announced a new decree due within 48 hours that refines restrictions across the delimited area covering a 500‑meter infested zone and a 20‑kilometer buffer around Seignosse.
- Conifers, including Christmas trees, will be allowed to enter the controlled perimeter, but exits of sensitive plants, wood and bark remain banned unless wood is processed or ISPM 15 heat‑treated.
- All felling, pruning, trimming and stump removal will require authorization from the regional food, agriculture and forestry directorate (DRAAF), and every susceptible plant in the infested core must be cut.
- Authorities will continue inspections and sampling throughout the buffer, and firms unable to operate under the restrictions can use standard short‑time work support for exceptional circumstances.
- The outbreak was first confirmed on November 3 in the Landes; the nematode spreads via the Monochamus galloprovincialis beetle, can kill pines within weeks, and has no curative treatment.