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Morocco
and Ecotourism
While Morocco's first ATA
Ecotourism Symposium , held in Marrakech (1997) was
a great success and covered many important points
on national, regional and Africawide issues, the
agenda is full for this year's 'symposium.' It is
the grand finale of 2002, International Year of
Ecotourism. We are sure that Morocco's Imperial
city of Fez will prove to be a place of opportunity
and renewal, as we look ahead.
Editor
 Environmental
Concerns
Current issues include land
degradation/desertification (soil erosion resulting
from farming of marginal areas, overgrazing,
destruction of vegetation); water supplies
contaminated by raw sewage; siltation of
reservoirs; oil pollution of coastal waters
Environment -
international agreements: party to:
Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification,
Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Marine
Dumping, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection,
Ship Pollution, Wetlands, Whaling signed, but not
ratified: Environmental Modification, Law of the
Sea. World Factbook (US source)
Photo
Credit: Karen Hoffman, ATA New York
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