Espace Naturel Sensible Etang de Beaurepaire

Etang de Beaurepaire is a man-made pond dating back to the 14th century, with a surface area of around 60 hectares, located in the communes of St-Maurice-Etusson (79) and Cléré-sur-Layon (49). It is part of a complex of ponds in the northern Deux-Sèvres region, particularly in the Argentonnais area, home to eleven Zones Naturelles d?Intérêt Faunistique et Floristique.
It is bordered by remarkable plant formations that support a very rich flora: submerged buttercup and pondweed beds, floating water lily beds, annual vegetation of exposed shorelines, bulrushes (Joncs, Carex, etc.), varied reedbeds, wet meadows and woodlands. This remarkable succession of plant communities is closely linked to the presence of shallow banks that are regularly flooded by seasonal fluctuations in water levels.