At around 234 km length linking Marrakesh and Agadir, the construction ofthe South motorway at the center of the ARGAN Biosphere Reserve, illustrates a genuine field for the implementation of sustainable development concepts. Argana forests are not only a place of extremely high ecological fragility but they also play a social role that is deeply entrenched in the daily life of local populations by using it at an extended scale. Faced with such specificity, the challenge to build a motorway with no high social and economic disequilibrium on the crossed regions has incentivized ADM toget close to local populations and to explain to them the beneficial repercussions of such a project on local economy and above all on generating jobs in the region. In the same optic, the concern of the continuity of exchanges and mobility in crossed areas propelled the study of implementationto advocate that all the ways crossed by the motorway should pave the wayfor the construction of vehicles and/or pedestrians passages as well as the construction ways and passages which are different at the height level for people living on the borders of the motorway and for animals. Beyond EIE recommendations, the responsible environment management is manifested in ADM's will to diminish all forms of impact. ADM has also contacted the administration of waters and forests in order to examine the possibilities of collaboration in order to preserve Argania spinosa and to ensure the continuity of the vegetation cover of the area crossed by the motorway. For the covering abstract see ITRD E139491.
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