Climate Change Threatens Extinction of Morocco’s Ancient Oases, Greenpeace Warns

The alarm bell is being rung by the global environmental NGO Greenpeace. It has therefore launched an awareness campaign with the aim of protecting these oases from disappearing. To this end, a petition has been launched in partnership with another NGO based in the Netherlands. According to the daily Al Ahdath Al Maghribia, an awareness video on the same subject has also been widely disseminated.

Greenpeace has also urged Morocco to play a leadership role in the negotiations, forums and global meetings that address climate issues. Morocco should thus push the international community to assume its responsibilities by raising the level of commitments of its members in the fight against global warming. According to the NGO, it must defend this wealth and heritage.

Julien Jreissati, campaign manager for the MENA region at Greenpeace, noted that these oases are dying due to the effects of climate change in the world. "Civilizations and peoples are disappearing, just as natural areas that are themselves in decline," he added before announcing that Morocco has lost two-thirds of its oases in a century.

Indeed, several meetings have been organized in the cities of Errachidia, Ouarzazate and Zagora, the aim of which is, among other things, to show the importance of the oases, as a human, ecological, human, cultural heritage..., specifies the same daily, which recalls the existence of a framework law in Morocco on the environment, adopted since 2014.