{"id":11843,"date":"2024-03-11T13:13:38","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T13:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/2024\/03\/rescom-developing-the-ecotourism-potential-of-khenifiss-national-park-in-morocco\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T21:08:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T21:08:28","slug":"rescom-developing-the-ecotourism-potential-of-khenifiss-national-park-in-morocco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/en\/2024\/03\/rescom-developing-the-ecotourism-potential-of-khenifiss-national-park-in-morocco\/","title":{"rendered":"RESCOM: developing the ecotourism potential of Khenifiss National Park in Morocco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The Mediterranean Biodiversity Consortium, represented by the Conservatoire du littoral and Tour du Valat, was in Morocco last week to support the Agence Nationale des Eaux et For\u00eats in promoting the natural and cultural heritage of the Khenifiss National Park.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11838\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11838\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3277 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Mission-RESCOM-au-Maroc-1-1024x768.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Mission-RESCOM-au-Maroc-1-1024x768.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Mission-RESCOM-au-Maroc-1-300x225.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Mission-RESCOM-au-Maroc-1-768x576.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Mission-RESCOM-au-Maroc-1.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11838\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a9Marion Douchin \/ Tour du Valat<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11839\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11839\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3281 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Mission-RESCOM-au-Maroc-5-1024x1024.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Mission-RESCOM-au-Maroc-5-1024x1024.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Mission-RESCOM-au-Maroc-5-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Mission-RESCOM-au-Maroc-5-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Mission-RESCOM-au-Maroc-5-768x768.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Mission-RESCOM-au-Maroc-5.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11839\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a9Marion Douchin \/ Tour du Valat<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The programme included visits to key tourism sites within the park, as well as workshops with all partners and local stakeholders (ANEF, the Khenifiss Environnement association, the commune of Akhfennir, the National Institute of Fisheries Research, and cooperatives of fishermen and salt producers). These activities aimed to explore potential landscape developments and tourism activities that could strengthen the attractiveness of this exceptional territory, where land meets sea.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11840\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11840\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3283 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Mission-RESCOM-au-Maroc-1024x472.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Mission-RESCOM-au-Maroc-1024x472.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Mission-RESCOM-au-Maroc-300x138.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Mission-RESCOM-au-Maroc-768x354.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Mission-RESCOM-au-Maroc.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11840\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a9Fabrice Bernard \/ Conservatoire du littoral<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11720\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11720\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4001 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Parc-National-de-Khenifiss-photo-by-Marion-Douchin-Tour-du-Valat.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Parc-National-de-Khenifiss-photo-by-Marion-Douchin-Tour-du-Valat.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Parc-National-de-Khenifiss-photo-by-Marion-Douchin-Tour-du-Valat-300x205.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Parc-National-de-Khenifiss-photo-by-Marion-Douchin-Tour-du-Valat-768x525.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11720\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a9Marion Douchin \/ Tour du Valat<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Khenifiss National Park is one of the RESCOM project\u2019s pilot sites on Nature-based Solutions in the Mediterranean, led by the Consortium and supported by the FFEM and the MAVA Foundation. The activities planned in Morocco will contribute to local development while preserving the park\u2019s unique biodiversity. Located in southern Morocco, Khenifiss National Park is characterized by a diversity of ecosystems (coastal strip, lagoon, and desert areas), which constitute its major natural richness. A Ramsar Site and an Important Bird Area, it provides a key refuge for numerous migratory bird species. <\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11841\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11841\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3279 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Mission-RESCOM-au-Maroc-3-1024x448.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Mission-RESCOM-au-Maroc-3-1024x448.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Mission-RESCOM-au-Maroc-3-300x131.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Mission-RESCOM-au-Maroc-3-768x336.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Mission-RESCOM-au-Maroc-3.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11841\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a9Marion Douchin \/ Tour du Valat<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11842\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11842\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3278 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Mission-RESCOM-au-Maroc-2-1024x768.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Mission-RESCOM-au-Maroc-2-1024x768.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Mission-RESCOM-au-Maroc-2-300x225.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Mission-RESCOM-au-Maroc-2-768x576.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Mission-RESCOM-au-Maroc-2.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11842\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a9Marion Douchin \/ Tour du Valat<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mediterranean Biodiversity Consortium, represented by the Conservatoire du littoral and Tour du Valat, was in Morocco last week to support the Agence Nationale des Eaux et For\u00eats in promoting the natural and cultural heritage of the Khenifiss National Park. The programme included visits to key tourism sites within the park, as well as workshops&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12781,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[85,55,59],"tags":[86,63],"class_list":["post-11843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-khenifiss","category-news","category-rescom","tag-khenifiss-national-park","tag-wetlands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12733,"href":"https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11843\/revisions\/12733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medconsortium.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}