French President Emmanuel Macron walked into a bar on Friday during a trip to eastern France and played “Biodiversity Loto,” a scratch game created by Française des Jeux to support wildlife conservation projects.
He played a bet of three euros, won six euros, played again and won back six euros at the Café de la Poste in Moirans-en-Montagne in the Haut-Jura Regional Natural Park.
To support around twenty projects, the new scratch game “Mission Nature” was launched on October 23rd.
Emmanuel Macron was in law for his “One Young Person, One Tree” program, which would allow every student to plant a tree, an approach that the Élysée presented as “symbolic, republican and with pedagogical vocation” on environmental issues.
Accompanied by some forty college students, the French president planted Atlas oaks and cedars on Friday and then called for “mobilization of the nation” to achieve his goal of planting a billion trees by 2030.
This idea was launched by the head of state in his interview on the YouTube channel HugoDécrypte in early September, calling for a “generation in which every student has planted his tree” as part of the goal of planting a billion trees in ten years Major fires from summer 2022 announced. In the Jura, the memory of the fires of summer 2022 is still alive.
The planting campaign desired by the president is criticized by some environmentalists, such as the Canopée association.