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17 Jun 2013
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Rabat Botanical Test Garden: royal will to promote environmental education and preserve the capital's natural heritage
The royal will to promote environmental education, preserve the capital's natural heritage, and ensure integrated and sustainable development of all regions of the Kingdom was concretised once again on Monday through the inauguration by His Majesty King Mohammed VI, may God assist him, of the Rabat Botanical Test Garden, which has undergone major redevelopment work.
This project is in direct line with the royal message addressed to the participants of the seventh World Congress on Environmental Education (9 June 2013, Marrakech), in which the Sovereign affirmed that education and awareness "remain the pivot of any judicious approach aimed at achieving the necessary transition towards a green, solidarity-based economy that respects natural ecosystems". Thus, the Rabat Botanical Test Garden aims to be both a centre for environmental education at the service of the general public and an ideal place to promote the national ecological heritage, a centre of biological resources for scientific research, and a place to host plant collections intended for the conservation of biodiversity. Created in 1914 on a total area of 17 ha (10 ha in the upstream part and 7 ha in the downstream part), the garden, which has undergone rehabilitation on the High Instructi…
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