Protection and integrated management of the Sahelian humid zones in Mauritania. Lakes Aleg and Mâl (Brakna)

Using an inter-disciplinary approach, we have proposed a diagnosis of the condition of the environment in Sahelian spaces organized around the humid zones of Aleg and Mal of Southwestern Mauritania in the Northern Sahel. These spaces are currently exploited and managed by the local residents in agropastoral systems greatly fragilized by the droughts of the seventies and eighties and heavy pressure on their resources. One of the objectives of our work was to find ways of preventing use conflicts between development projects and local development. This resulted in the conception of a system of improvement and management of natural resources of the “land management” type that favours the restoration of their potential, followed by their sustainable and equitable exploitation by the local residents. On this basis, protection measures (registration on the Ramsar list) could take into account the social, economic and ecological values of these wetlands of international importance.

Auteurs:

Aziz Ballouche, Mohamed Lemine Ould Baba, Aude Nuscia Taïbi, Gérard
Moguedet

Adresses:

Université d'Abomey Calavi, Faculté des Sciences Agronomiques, Laboratoire d'Ecologie Appliquée (UAC/FSA/LEA)- Bénin- 03 BP 1974 Cotonou, Benin Tel: +229 21 36 01 26 / +229 21 31 79 93/229 21 30 30 84
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