{"id":837,"name":"Gilles Lecuir","url":"","description":"Having worked as a local communications officer during the first part of my career, since 2010 I have been putting my skills in this field to use in facilitating dialogue and mediation between public and private stakeholders who are concerned, committed, and interested in reconciling the challenges of human development with the preservation of the biosphere that makes it possible.\r\n\r\nLimiting the major biodiversity crisis (in terms of both the loss of specific diversity and the collapse of populations and disruption of ecological functions), climate change, urban ecology and eco-neighborhoods,  ecological economics in the sense of sustainable rather than lasting development, ethics in relations between human beings\u2014both among themselves and with the rest of the non-human world, for which they now bear the greatest ethical responsibility\u2014these are some of the ideas that drive my work :)\r\n\r\nSince 2010, I have been the organizer of the French Capital of Biodiversity, friendly competition for French municipalities and inter-municipal communities. I live in the Paris region and in C\u00e9vennes mountains in south-east of France, and I spend a good part of my time \u201cstealing\u201d the best ideas from my colleagues in other regions (and in return, I try to share them and make them accessible to everyone, of course). \r\n\r\nIn my spare time, I am a \u201cyoung\u201d generalist entomologist and an even \u201cyounger\u201d herpetologist. The more I learn, the less I know!\r\n\r\nHe is also an activist, member of the board of the French NGO Humanity & Biodiversity, and vice-president of the French branch of The Nature Of Cities.\r\n\r\nHe spends most of his spare time photographing insects on flowers\u2026\r\n\r\n* * *\r\nExpert en \u00e9cologie urbaine, en communication publique et en politiques publiques, Gilles Lecuir travaille pour l\u2019Agence r\u00e9gionale de la Biodiversit\u00e9 en \u00cele-de-France, mais il anime aussi depuis 10 ans le concours national Capitale fran\u00e7aise de la Biodiversit\u00e9 qui identifie, valorise et diffuse les meilleures pratiques des villes et intercommunalit\u00e9s fran\u00e7aises en mati\u00e8re d\u2019int\u00e9gration de la nature dans l\u2019ensemble des politiques urbaines.\r\n\r\nC\u2019est aussi un militant associatif, membre du conseil d\u2019administration de l\u2019association nationale de plaidoyer Humanit\u00e9 & Biodiversit\u00e9, et vice-pr\u00e9sident de la branche fran\u00e7aise de The Nature Of Cities.\r\n\r\nIl passe la plupart de son temps libre restant \u00e0 photographier des insectes sur des fleurs\u2026","link":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/author\/gilleslecuir\/","slug":"gilleslecuir","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/cropped-GiL-TT-1er-dec-2025-24x24.jpg","48":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/cropped-GiL-TT-1er-dec-2025-48x48.jpg","96":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/cropped-GiL-TT-1er-dec-2025-96x96.jpg"},"meta":[],"simple_local_avatar":{"media_id":60006,"full":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/cropped-GiL-TT-1er-dec-2025.jpg","blog_id":1,"192":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/cropped-GiL-TT-1er-dec-2025-192x192.jpg","96":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/cropped-GiL-TT-1er-dec-2025-96x96.jpg","24":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/cropped-GiL-TT-1er-dec-2025-24x24.jpg","48":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/cropped-GiL-TT-1er-dec-2025-48x48.jpg","64":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/cropped-GiL-TT-1er-dec-2025-64x64.jpg","32":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/cropped-GiL-TT-1er-dec-2025-32x32.jpg","250":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/cropped-GiL-TT-1er-dec-2025-250x250.jpg","125":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/cropped-GiL-TT-1er-dec-2025-125x125.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}