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Topography of Morocco. Morocco is a country in northwestern Africa; land borders include Western Sahara in the southwest and Algeria to the south and east. To the north and west, Morocco has a long coastline on the Atlantic Ocean; to the north lies the Strait of Gibraltar and the Mediterranean Sea.
Often called sengis, the elephant shrews or jumping shrews are native to Africa. Their common English name derives from their elongated flexible snout, which is vaguely similar to the trunk of an elephant (to whom they are distantly related) and their resemblance to the true shrews. Family: Macroscelididae (elephant shrews) Genus: Elephantulus
The ostriches are a flightless birds native to Africa. They are the largest living species of bird and are distinctive in appearance, with a long neck and legs and the ability to run at high speeds. This species was extirpated from Morocco some time before 1990; [2] a re-introduction programme for the North African ostrich is in progress. [3]
Amphibians & Reptiles of Morocco (Including Western Sahara). Ed. Asociación Herpetológica Española. p. 319. Geniez, Philippe; José Antonio Mateo; Michel Geniez; Jim Pether (2004). Amphibians and Reptiles of Western Sahara. Serpent's Tale Natural History Book Distributors. p. 229.
Spain, Portugal, and Morocco. Decreasing North African fire salamander: Salamandra algira (Bedriaga, 1883) [2] Morocco and Algeria. Decreasing Brongersma's toad: Bufo brongersmai (Hoogmoed, 1972) Endemic of Morocco: Decreasing Common toad: Bufo bufo (Linnaeus, 1758) In Europe, Kazakhstan, Syria, Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. Stable ...
Khenifra National Park is a national park in central Morocco, east of the city of the same name. The park was created in 2008 and is 842 square kilometres (325 sq mi) in size. [1] Extending across the middle Atlas Mountains, the park is home to a wealth of fauna and flora. [2]
There are 11 national parks in Morocco. Toubkal National Park, established in 1942, is the oldest [1] and by far the most visited. [2] The parks are situated rather well in-line, [3] so it already allows wildlife migration to some extent. The only missing component in this wildlife corridor is a gap between Al-Hoceima and Seghir (so roughly at ...
Souss-Massa also holds captive-breeding programmes for four threatened North African ungulates: scimitar oryx, addax, dama gazelle and dorcas gazelle, that are kept in separate enclosures within the park. The reintroduction of the North African ostrich - which is extinct north of the Sahara - is also underway. [7]