Photo: Mounir Neddi · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons
Country
Morocco
Protected areas
Highest peak
Jbel Toubkal · 4,167 m
Partner team(s)
UM6P · ENFI · UCA
About the site
The High Atlas holds the highest summits of North Africa. Toubkal National Park, created in 1942, culminates at Jbel Toubkal (4,167 m). Haut Atlas Oriental National Park protects cedar forests, high plateaus and lakes such as Isli and Tislit, and rises to Jbel Ayachi.
Here, wet meadows depend on snowmelt and springs in a semi-arid climate, and are managed through traditional communal pastoral systems (agdals) and irrigation. They represent the most Mediterranean and semi-arid end of the PRESINMED gradient, where drought impacts are expected to be strongest.
PRESINMED at High Atlas
- Herbivory and tourism pressure (T1.1, T1.2) and soil respiration (T1.4)
- New restoration techniques and pilot NbS (T2.2.3, T2.2.4)
- Ecohydrological modelling with WiMMed (T3.2)
- Connections with the African Union Great Green Wall initiative
The study plots, the Nature-based Solutions implemented and the local stakeholders involved will be described here as the project progresses.
Location
Tasks with this site’s teams
- T1.1 Impact of herbivory by domestic and wild ungulates under a drought scenario
- T1.2 Impact of tourism pressure under a drought scenario
- T1.3 Spatial and temporal analysis of biodiversity (plants, arthropods and birds)
- T1.4 Quantification of soil respiration
- T1.5 Remote monitoring of ecosystem variables
- T1.7 Characterisation of reference dynamics, spatial variability, trends and anomalies
- T1.8 Assessing conservation status of endemic and threatened species and habitats
- T2.1 Application of remote-sensing-derived variables and metrics to decision making and management
- T2.2.1 Irrigation systems reclamation
- T2.2.2 Monitoring plant community responses to water supply, livestock and tourist pressure
- T2.2.3 Test of new restoration techniques
- T2.2.4 Active restoration of keystone species
- T2.3 Analysis of trade-offs and synergies between NbS
- T3.1 Stakeholder engagement
- T3.2 Ecohydrological model (WiMMed)
- T3.3 Pasture production model
- T3.5 Local and international collaboration, participation, training and shared governance
Team at High Atlas
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