Workshop participants and trainer Mohammed Zarour

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As part of its MENA-Region climate change project on the role of nature conservation and protected areas in climate change, the Hanns Seidel Stiftung in Jordan and Morocco and its Jordanian partner organization, the Royal Society for the Nature of Nature - RSCN, are conducting a workshop to improve the management qualities of nature reserves and protected areas.

The workshop for senior executives and leaders of relevant institutions in the MENA-Region and took place in Marrakech from 7 to 18 November in the first week of COP22. 

Panel 2 at COP22

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In addition, the experts present their expertise in a side event in the Green Zone of the World Climate Conference and raise awareness on the conservation and expansion of nature conservation areas with regard to the global challenges of climate change.

The workshop in Marrakech is a continuation of an event that took place in Amman / Jordan in April 2016 (see previous article). The one-week workshop was attended by 22 participants from Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon, Tunisia and Morocco and is carried out by experts from RSCN. 

Audiences at COP22

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The climate project of the Hanns Seidel Stiftung on the promotion of nature conservation areas as an effective tool for climate adaptation and climate change has a regional focus and is aimed at senior management and managers of nature conservation and protected areas as well as political decision-makers of relevant ministries and institutions in the MENA-Region. They are also being trained at the Royal Academy for Nature Conservation in Jordan at regular intervals (see previous article). For example, countries such as Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia are particularly affected by climate change and suffer from long drought periods. Land runoff and a massive deterioration in the agricultural sector are the result, with considerable damages to the national economy and the supply situation for the population.