Pays de Retz

Planète Sauvage (French pronunciation: [pla.nɛt so.vaʒ], Wild Planet in English) is a zoological park situated in the French Atlantic coast, in Port-Saint-Père near Nantes, in the Loire-Atlantique departement. Founded in 1992 by Monique and Dany Laurent and known as the Safari Africain until 1998, it was then operated by the Compagnie des Alpes between 2005 and 2015. Since that date the park has been the property of the multinational company Looping Group, whose main shareholder is a Belgian private equity fund of the Groupe Bruxelles Lambert. Its director is Philippe Vignaud. The park covers about 80 hectares (200 acres) of land, where almost 1,000 animals of about 150 species live, and is a blend of a safari portion visible by car and a pedestrian part which includes one of the three dolphinariums of metropolitan France, where bottlenose dolphins are presented. Since 2008 it receives between 200,000 and 322,000 visitors each year. Although not a member of the EAZA, it cooperates with researchers and finances wildlife conservation NGOs. It has been at the heart of several controversies since its opening, about a temporary human zoo in 1994, an adjourned dolphinarium project in 1998, the captivity conditions of its dolphins, which three of them have died, since 2007, and the transfer of macaques to a research laboratory practicing vivisection, in 2014.

Port-Saint-Père-Saint-Mars is a railway station in Saint-Mars-de-Coutais, Pays de la Loire, France. The station is located on the Nantes–La Roche-sur-Yon railway. The station is served by TER (local) services operated by the SNCF: local services (TER Pays de la Loire) Nantes - Sainte-Pazanne - Pornic local services (TER Pays de la Loire) Nantes - Sainte-Pazanne - Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie

Saint-Mars-de-Coutais (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ maʁ də kutɛ] ; Breton: Sant-Marzh-ar-C'hoad) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France.

Saint-Lumine-de-Coutais (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ lymin də kutɛ] ; Breton: Sant-Leven-ar-C'hoad) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France.

Port-Saint-Père (French pronunciation: [pɔʁ sɛ̃ pɛʁ] ; Breton: Porzh-Pêr) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France.

Saint-Léger-les-Vignes (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ leʒe le viɲ] ; Breton: Sant-Lezer-ar-Gwiniegi) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France.

La Marne (French pronunciation: [la maʁn] ; Gallo: La Marnn, Breton: Maeron) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France.

The river Boulogne (French: [bulɔɲ]) is located in western France in the départements Loire-Atlantique and Vendée. It is 86.5 km (53.7 mi) in length and flows north from the source near Saint-Martin-des-Noyers, through Les Essarts and La Merlatière, then through Boulogne, Vendée and Les Lucs-sur-Boulogne into the Lac de Grand-Lieu. This lake is drained by the river Acheneau towards the Loire.

Brains (French pronunciation: [bʁɛ̃] ; Gallo: Brâin or Brein, Breton: Brenn) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France. The commune is a part of historical Brittany, in the traditional region of Retz, and in the historical region of Nantes.

Bouaye (French pronunciation: [bwɛ] or [bwɛj]; Gallo: Bóaèy, Breton: Bouez) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France.

Lac de Grand-Lieu (French: [lak də gʁɑ̃.ljø]) is a lake located to the southwest of Nantes, in the Loire-Atlantique, France, and almost entirely in Saint-Philbert-de-Grand-Lieu. At an elevation of 5 m (16 ft), its surface area is 62.92 km2 (24.29 sq mi), making it the largest lake in France in winter, but second after Lac du Bourget in summer. The lake is classified as a Local Nature Reserve, and use of boats on the lake are prohibited for all but a small number of licensed professional fishermen.

Bouaye is a railway station in Bouaye, Pays de la Loire, France. The station is located on the Nantes–La Roche-sur-Yon railway. The station is served by TER (local) services operated by the SNCF: local services (TER Pays de la Loire) Nantes - Sainte-Pazanne - Pornic local services (TER Pays de la Loire) Nantes - Sainte-Pazanne - Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie