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.