Guest of "Culture Médias", Wednesday on Europe 1, the host Cyril Féraud explains how the program "La Carte aux trésors", whose new season begins Wednesday evening on France 3, limits the use of helicopters and offsets their carbon emissions . 

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The Treasure Map wants to evolve with its time. The 30-year-old France 3 show continues to use helicopters but does not neglect the climate emergency, assured host Cyril Féraud, guest of Pascale Clark in Culture Médias , on Wednesday. on Europe 1. 

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"The only way to film France from the sky"

"We don't say to ourselves: we're going to take helicopters for free," says Cyril Féraud. "But it's the only machine that allows candidates to move very quickly over a given territory with a lap time, that's the concept of the show", namely a race between two candidates who must solve four puzzles as quickly as possible , he defends. "And above all, it is, still today, the only way to film France from the sky." Wednesday evening, it is above Corsica that viewers will be able to travel on France 3. 

As often as possible, the show uses a drone to be more environmentally friendly. "We use it on the trays which do not deserve to be very, very high. But it cannot go to any height and it is not allowed everywhere", points out Cyril Féraud. 

A partnership to replant trees

When the team has no other solution than using a helicopter, its use is limited to the minimum, according to Cyril Féraud. "We don't shoot The Treasure Map like we did fifteen years ago," he says. "When the candidates think about their riddle in their helicopter, everything is off. It is only when they choose their first destination that the helicopter is turned on, and it lands on the other side."

And for these journeys, "we offset the carbon emissions of all the helicopters on the set", underlines the presenter. "We have teamed up with a company called Reforest'Action, which replants trees in the areas where they suffer."