Laâyoune celebrates World Day to Combat Desertification

The High Commission for Water and Forests and the Fight against Desertification (HCEFLCD) celebrated World Day to Combat Desertification for two days in the provinces of Laâyoune and Smara.These activities, which took place last Tuesday and Wednesday around the theme "Let us all act to limit land degradation by taking into account zonal specificities", aimed, according to the HCEFCLD, to inform the public and local stakeholders about the efforts made in the fight against desertification in the region and to raise awareness among members of society about the ongoing process of updating the National Action Programme to Combat Desertification (PANLCD), several years after its implementation. This programme focuses on the annual treatment of more than 140 ha, to curb the problem of sand encroachment and to protect the infrastructure of urban areas, through the revegetation of dunes with spe…