This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
Muhammad Manfaluti – Heba Press
The Mzamza forest, at the northern entrance to the town of Settat, is experiencing a worrying situation due to abandonment, marginalization and the adoption of a policy of felling and felling. It has even become a construction waste disposal destination. Note that this forest wealth is considered one of the most important ecological sites, and is even considered the lungs of the capital of Chaouia, which guarantees clean air to its inhabitants, and why not, since it extends over vast areas surrounding the city on all sides. sides: east, west and north.
This forest space, which provides the area with green spaces and trails for practicing various types of sports, was full of life and was a destination for domestic and wild animals and tall trees with integrated buildings. It once also had adequate security to protect its spaces from vandalism, encroachment and overgrazing, but today it lives in a different situation.
The Regional Directorate of Water and Forests of Settat is also concerned by this work and explicitly asks it to intervene to rehabilitate the forest area by planting it and fighting against various demonstrations which would destroy the forest area, which is considered to be the lung base for breathing in the capital of Chaouia. The roles of the administrative police and all those involved in this area must also be activated to stop this hemorrhage, which threatens the environmental space at the northern entrance and even the forest adjacent to the Al-Farah neighborhood at the entrance west.
This bleeding harms human health, especially young children who find themselves involved in sorting this waste, which often contains dangerous components such as iron, wood and pieces of glass that can cause serious harm to them. Note that the phenomenon has recently taken an upward trend due to the fact that some people deliberately dispose of renovation or even construction waste within neighborhoods. This reflects, as described by many people who follow environmental issues, a negative vision of the city, its residential neighborhoods and its forest areas. Knowing that the removal of this waste is the responsibility of the project owner, since he is the first responsible for cleaning the rubble coming out of his house, the municipal council must also act to strike with an iron fist the offenders who caused this deformation.
This is the tip of the iceberg of the decline in the environmental sector, which requires the development of a solid long-term plan to preserve the sustainability of green spaces with a view to achieving sustainable development for all the city’s neighborhoods and its forest environment, while defining responsibilities and tasks and clarifying the roles of all actors involved in its management. Permanent and continuous security must also be provided, particularly for busy places.
All this requires responding according to a participatory approach to strengthen the development process of Morocco in general and the city of Settat in particular, and develop the role of the authorities responsible for the sector, in connection with the activities of civil society, with the aim of accelerating the pace of environmental protection, which will contribute to winning the challenge of sustainable development, which has become one of the issues of the moment, not only in our country, but also in the most countries in the world. It is a challenge that King Mohammed VI has elevated to the rank of absolute priority in Morocco’s development process and has made it the common objective of all policies through the draft National Charter for Environment and Development. sustainable, as well as strengthening the presence of the environment in the new Moroccan constitution.
