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Mamoura Forest is the largest forest in Morocco
The Mamora Forest is the largest forest in Morocco with an area of 1320 square kilometers, and it is one of the largest forest forests in the world, and the Mamora Forest is the most forest containing cork oak in the world, and thus plays a fundamental role in the environmental, social And politics in Morocco.
Mamoura Forest site
The Mamoura Forest is located in the northwest of Morocco, near the Moroccan Plain that extends along the Atlantic Ocean between the cities of Rabat and Quneitra. As for the size of the Mamoura Forest, it is 68.6 km in length from the west to the east, and its width reaches 38.2 km from north to south, and is divided into three geographical units , Which are: the western globe, the middle globe, the eastern globe.
Biodiversity of the Mamoura Forest
Cork oak covers an area of 600 square kilometers of woods and is considered the main type in Al Mamoura Forest, and it is indicated that it contains lentil ducks, wild olives, in addition to cryptogamic flora such as truffles and for the animals in them they are considered incubator For many animals, including turtles and livestock, there are many parasites, natural pests and insects, including the large cauliflower (Cerambix cerdo), hymenoptera, ants (Ant Cork), and woody carnivores (English: xylophagous), In addition to embryo hospitals Live (in English: lepidoptera).
Geological characteristics of the globe
Most of the geological formations in Al Mamoura Forest are marine sediments from the Pliocene era, where the soil of Al Mamoura Forest was formed from clay layers on top of layers of red sand, and the soil in most of Al Mamoura Forest is classified as sandy and acidic, and is classified according to the International Soil Classification System World Reference Base for Soil Resources-WRB) as sandy soil (English: arenosols).
Problems facing the global forest
Al-Mamoura forest was exposed to many factors that caused it damage, the most prominent of which are:
- Arbitrary exploitation of forest trees.
- Irregular exploitation of cork oak trees.
- Overgrazing.
- Urban sprawl.
