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The Blue Flag, awarded yearly by the Mohammed VI Basis for Environmental Safety, headed by Her Royal Highness Princess Lalla Hasnaa, shall be raised on 27 seashores, 4 leisure ports, and for the primary time in Morocco, on a mountain lake, in the summertime of 2024.
Morocco, which has a complete of 32 websites bearing the Blue Flag, ranks 18th out of 43 nations within the Northern Hemisphere by way of the variety of websites awarded the Blue Flag, a strict ecological label created by the Basis for Environmental Schooling and launched by the Mohammed VI Basis for the Safety of… Atmosphere in 2002 to Morocco, the Arab nation with the biggest variety of Blue Flag badges, and the second largest in Africa.
An announcement from the Mohammed VI Basis for Environmental Safety acknowledged that the 27 seashores that obtained the Blue Flag in the summertime of 2023 had been all in a position to keep their Blue Flag, which displays the dedication of the actors to keep up the excessive requirements of this flag all through the summer season season.
The identical supply defined that the matter issues the seashores of Oued Lao, Essaouira, Arkaman, Haouzia, Sidi Rahhal, Half 4, Bouznika, Bou Kacem, M’diq, Rifiyin, Sidi Ifni, the municipal seaside of Saidia, the western vacationer station of Saidia, Dalia, Achkar, Badouza, and the seaside. Safi Municipality, Outdated Essaouira, Aklo, Emine Tourga, Oum Le Bouer, Foum El Oued, Skhirat, Sidi Abed/New, the Nations Seashore, the extension of Ain Diab Seashore, the port and the east of Marina Smir.
The communication indicated that Lake Aklamam-Azkza within the Nationwide Park of Khenifra obtained the Blue Banner, and is the primary mountain lake to boost this badge in Morocco. This “inexperienced lake,” positioned between a protracted slope and a forest of tons of of years previous Atlas cedar bushes, is taken into account a wild pearl within the Center Atlas.
As a way to sustain with the guests to this well-known website in Khenifra and its environs, the territorial communities and native authorities determined to arrange it, by developing entry roads, service buildings, a tenting area, well being services, and others. This can be a mission that the Basis supported by granting him the Blue Flag badge.
The communication added that for Tangier Marina Bay, the fourth leisure port to boost the Blue Flag, following Saidia in 2018, East Marina Smir in 2022, and Al Hoceima in 2023, this environmental mark is a pure continuation of its improvement.
“Tangier Marina Bay”, which was opened in 2018 as a part of the rehabilitation of the port of Tangier, has change into the biggest leisure port within the Kingdom, because it contains 1,400 locations for mooring yachts and leisure boats. Its fashionable, built-in services, particularly with regard to waste administration, have logically enabled it to acquire the eco-label.
The Blue Flag badge might be very well-liked with coastal teams accountable for seaside administration, as a result of constructive picture it conveys and its enchantment to vacationers.
For the 2024 version, 49 seashores utilized to acquire this badge, the award of which depends upon respect for 4 fundamental standards: high quality of bathing water, info and consciousness concerning the setting, cleanliness and security, and preparation and administration. Monitoring operations are carried out usually in the course of the summer season season to make sure the extent to which websites receiving the environmental badge respect these requirements.
Seashores awarded the “Blue Flag” badge are companions within the “Clear Seashores” program, which incorporates greater than 100 seashores, particularly these which can be highly regarded. 66 native teams, with the help of the guardian authority, the Basic Directorate of Territorial Communities, all departments involved with coastal administration, 26 financial companions and greater than 100 native associations, shall be mobilized over a interval of roughly three months to sensitize and educate vacationers, guarantee the standard of bathing water and sand, and put together the seashores. Guaranteeing security and well being protection, in addition to imposing respect for regulation and order.
Air pollution of oceans and seashores is likely one of the fundamental issues of the Mohammed VI Basis for Environmental Safety, which, since 2019, has been implementing the “Sea With out Plastic” operation. This initiative goals to boost the extent of consciousness, on a big scale, of the hazards of plastic air pollution amongst vacationers, and to encourage them to gather and recycle waste. In the course of the 12 months 2024, this course of shall be held in its fifth version, and it has change into a reference course of wherein all seashores carrying the Blue Flag take part. It’s an initiative acknowledged and included within the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Improvement, of which the Basis is an energetic celebration.
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2024-06-22 01:48:09
