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Merchant preparing medicinal plants in a shop at Marrakesh Medina, Morocco.
Merchant preparing medicinal plants in a shop at Marrakesh Medina, Morocco.
© Pierre Carret

Sustainable Livelihoods and Community Management of Medicinal Plants and Important Plant Areas of the High Atlas Mountains

Grantee Name: Global Diversity Foundation

Hotspot
Mediterranean Basin
Location
Morocco
Amount
$19,900
Dates
Apr 2013 – Aug 2015
Keywords
Community-based conservation, Livelihoods, Medicinal plants, Species Conservation

Promote sustainable harvesting and community-based cultivation of medicinal plants to address threats to important plant areas near key biodiversity areas in the High Atlas Mountains. Specific conservation actions will be determined through stakeholder workshops and researching the plant species of concern that are currently harvested from communal lands, forest domains and protected areas in the central part of the Atlas Mountain Conservation Corridor of Morocco.

Strategic Direction :

3 Improve the conservation and protection status of 44 priority key biodiversity areas

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