Stop the felling of palm trees!

While the oasis space is the subject of several interventions to preserve the environment, other acts are coming to reset the clocks, if not worse. In Mhamid El Ghizlane, and under the pretext of efforts aimed at opening up the ksours of this remote area, the competent authorities are working, without scruple, to fell date palms. An aberration that local associations are denouncing. "Developing a road in the palm grove is a good thing, but it can also be done without felling this number of date palms which are the pride, but also the life of the people of the last palm grove of the Draâ," indicates a young associative actor of the region. Already, he adds, starting a project on private land requires at least informing these concerned people, if not following the legal channels in the matter, including expropriation procedures. Why does such a project not have a sign or a board indicatin…