Improvement of pastoral organisation and practices in Morocco

The Foundation joined a partnership with the Toubkal National Park in Morocco and university experts to put forward a project for improving the practices and the organisation of pastoral activity in the Toubkal National Park, in order to create sustainable and lasting management of heritage resources and traditional landscapes. In fact, current pastoral activity, not adapted to the environments and the species, has shown itself to be a huge threat to biodiversity: disturbance of wild fauna species; excessive stocking or pressure of grazing on some environments; damage to the highly ecologically-sensitive areas known as the pozzines through out-of-season pasturing, etc. A review of the agropastoral system has therefore appeared as one of the priority actions to be implemented by the various stakeholders.

The project will particularly result in a collective Charter of Commitment, consisting in structuring and organising the pastoral sector in the long term and thus putting in place joint management with the Park administrator.

This project is financed by the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) which enables civil society to protect the hotspots (or “sensitive areas”) of global biodiversity – the biologically rich ecosystems which are essential for humanity, but highly threatened.

The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund

The CEPF is a joint initiative by the French Development Agency (AFD), Conservation International, the European Union, the Global Environment Facility, the Government of Japan and the World Bank. Its fundamental objective is to ensure civil society’s commitment to the preservation of biodiversity.

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Parc National de Toubkal

2019-2021

Maroc