Mazars supports a research on argan tree preservation, in the context of its involvement in cultural world heritages - Mazars Group
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Mazars supports a research on argan tree preservation, in the context of its involvement in cultural world heritages
Following the three year sponsorship of the site managers for the Worldwide UNESCO and ONG Heritage, Mazars has decided to support all country heritages, especially those where the Group works on highlighting local entrepreneurial initiatives and efforts. This year, Mazars has decided to sponsor a young researcher by offering him a scholarship to allow him to concentrate completely on his thesis on cultural heritage.
The first to be selected is a young Moroccan, Aouragh Mbark, a student at the Paris IV Sorbonne University, working on saving a vegetation heritage, the Moroccan Argan Tree Forest, a multi-facetted landscape in danger. One of the objectives involved is to attempt to maintain a source of subsistence to the local population.
Travellers must be familiar with the Argan oil used for its moisturising qualities that one can buy in Moroccan markets, but they probably ignore the fact that this very same oil is edible and that the future of the Argan Tree Forest is threatened. The forests are essentially in the South of Morocco. The nuts are still manually crushed by women cooperatives that live off this work. The Argan Tree Forest ensures subsistence to over 3 million people of which 2.2 million live in rural areas.
The Argan Tree Forest is suffering from a more intense cultural variation, an evolution of its eco-system and of its environment. The student sponsored by Mazars is planning to study the various components affecting the environment of the Argan Tree Forest which include Man, anthropy, vegetation and space. To do so, he will study maps from different eras to observe and understand the reasons behind this degradation. A survey carried out with the Moroccan population is to take place in order to include local opinions.
The Argan Tree Forest plantations have been listed under the Worldwide UNESCO Heritage; these trees are over 200 to 300 years old and allow a very large female population to survive.
In being involved in this project to save the Argan Tree Forest and in allowing the local traditional female activity to survive, this is perfectly in line with Mazars values in cultural diversity and responsibility.
A responsibility towards society is a policy that only has true meaning if it has first been well and truly absorbed into the values of a firm.
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