The Rapad Morocco (Associative Network for Animal Welfare and Sustainable Development), aims to represent the challenges posed by the Biodiversity Conservation and particularly the Animal, in its generality.
Our mission, through our members and partners, is the defense of animal life in all its forms, taking into account the preservation of nature and environment.
Our role is to anchor our natural heritage in the sustainable development, through the commitment of policy and legislation, with the lively forces in Morocco and Africa, supported by the expertise of international Ngos.
Our wealth must be preserved for future generations. They hold a key role in sustainable development and represent a growth engine for our country and our continent.
Our vision is to unify the actions of all stakeholders by strengthening their reach, while contributing effectively to find practical and sustainable solutions to the problem of biodiversity, conservation and animal welfare.
It fits perfectly in the general principles of sustainable development and those of the National Charter for the Environment.
The RAPAD Morocco is based on a set of common values that can not be questioned. These values guide us, forming the basis of all our actions:
“Responsibility / Respect / Team Spirit, Solidarity and Sharing”
Founded in 2004, ADAN Rabat (Association of defence of animals and nature), is a t is public health cause. Since 2014 ADAN joined the Rapad Morocco network, which he helped create.
Since, ADAN Rabat has continued to support actions in other cities of the Kingdom by developing its affiliates, throughout the country (Essaouira, Casablanca, Kenitra, Tetouan and Nador). 6 other cities will soon be created (Fez, Meknes, Mohammedia, El Jadida, Ouarzazate and Guelmim).
Our goals:
- Protecting nature and promote animal welfare, by legal means and actions in the ground.
- Protect animals by providing food, medical care and shelter.
- Ensure the human and animal health control by vaccination and tagging animals (neutered / spayed).
- Educate the public on the values of animal protection.
- Cooperate with authorities, organizations, associations, schools and medias.
Marine turtles are reptiles appeared in the waters of the globe more than 100 million years ago. It represent an old and important component of global biodiversity. There are seven species: the Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas), the loggerhead (Caretta caretta) turtle carapace flat (Natator depressus), hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata), leatherback (Dermochelys coriacea), the turtle olive (Lepidochelys olivacea) and the Kemp’s Ridley (Lepidochelys kempi).
These species got long life and a variety of habitats during their life cycle that leads them to make important migrations. These characteristics make them particularly sensitive to human activities (urbanization, bycatch or accidental catch, pollution, …). Abundant in the past, all these species are threatened and are the subject of conservation measures through several conventions (Barcelona Convention, 1976; Bonn Convention, 1979 Bern Convention, 1982; etc …).
The GOMAC is a Moroccan non profit scientific association, founded in 1989, having as objective to introduce the public to the observation and identification of wild birds, and to work for the protection of the Moroccan natural heritage and in particular wild birds, especially endangered species.
The association organizes each year across the Kingdom of Morocco around ten birding tours designed to initiatiate of the general public in terms of ornithology field.
We conduct field research in the field of Moroccan ornithology such as monitoring movements of populations of different species in the country, updating the status of these species (sedentary species, summer visitors, migratory, wintering) as well as the ecology of the national avifauna.
The GOMAC has to his credit several important works of specialist consultations (characterization of important bird area in Morocco, impact studies at the wind farms recently established in the country, etc.). It actively cooperates with many national and international partners interested in the Moroccan birds and the protection of the environment at large.
The GOMAC is the author of the first field guide named Birds of Morocco. This book is the reference for all field ornithologist living or traveling in Morocco. He is also the initiator of the only public data base of observations of bird species census, mammals, reptiles and Moroccan butterflies (http://maroc.observado.org).
Our office is based at the Faculty of Sciences of Meknes, but there are active members in all major cities of Morocco: Rabat, Casablanca, Marrakech, …
La Tribu des Écolos is basically a Facebook group created in June 2011 with the objective to bring together an ecologist Moroccan community, that has been able to created from a virtual world and shows that the Moroccan citizens may care protect their environment, act in this direction, without sponsors and without associative framework.
It wears a vision where citizen involvement joins to conserve essential biodiversity and ecosystems. The group is unified through a framework of “green” citizens sensitivity, aims to bring these citizen environmentalists forces around a constructive dynamic that promotes awareness, transmission of news and dialogue.
The group is follows with great interest the evolution of the status of endangered species in Morocco and unanimously denounced animal trafficking and activities that impact our National ecosystems and biodiversity.
Africa Network for Animal Welfare (ANAW) is a Not-for-Profit animal welfare Organization based in Kenya. The focus of ANAW is on welfare and humane treatment of all animals for human welfare.
In line with our mission, ANAW has and continues to be involved in projects that span from policy formulation, animal rescue (both wild and domestic), protection, care and management as well as animal intervention activities for sustainable development. The following are some of our projects:
- Anti-Poaching De-Snaring
- Spay Neuter and Anti-Rabies
- Policy and Legislation Advocacy
- Animal Welfare Campaigns
…A global forum in which people who care about animals can speak and be heard! We’re here to foster the open exchange of knowledge, ideas, and tactics relevant to animal rights, which we define simply as the belief that animals’ lives and experiences matter. We welcome submissions from anyone of any background, and through the interaction of diverse ideas and perspectives, hope to arrive at new insights to guide us toward a brighter, more compassionate future for all living creatures.
Animals’ Angels
- is recognised as the animal protection organisation that specialises in farm-animal transport
- has global reach
- calls for the enforcement of existing animal protection laws
- asserts the right of animals to life, liberty and happiness
- aims to have animals treated as sentient beings with rights
- regards the struggle for animal rights as on a par with the struggle for human rights
Our motto: we are there with the animals
The bedrock of Animals’ Angels’ work is our solidarity with suffering animals. At the centre of our beliefs stands our motto: We are there with the animals. That is the source of our dedication and our strength.
Animals’ Angels is internationally regarded as a well-qualified specialist organisation with a high ethical profile, known to official bodies, political groups and the haulage industry as well as to other animal protection organisations.
Brighter Green is a public policy action tank that works to raise awareness of and encourage policy action on issues that span the environment, animals, and sustainability. Based in New York, Brighter Green works in the U.S. and internationally with a focus on the countries of the global South and a strong commitment to ensuring and expanding equity and rights.
Brighter Green generates and incubates research and project initiatives that are both visionary and practical. We produce publications, documentary films, and programs to illuminate debate among policy-makers, activists, communities, influential leaders, and the media.
We have participated in UNFCCC COPs since 2009, seeking to raise awareness of the contribution of animal agriculture to global warming and the urgent need for significant changes in current production and consumption patterns.
Founded in 2013, Ecologie.ma is a website dedicated to the promotion of ecological values, and awareness of the protection of biodiversity in the context of sustainable development in Morocco.
Our website works via a simple and regular content, to inform and transmit files and news relating to the environment.
Ecologie.ma seeks to contribute to environmental education efforts via news articles, files, as well as simple worksheets.
Ecologie.ma is a non-profit website.
At a time when concepts like eco-citizenship or ecotourism increasingly becoming essential around the world, Ecologie.ma, as part of the Moroccan society participate in this citizen dynamic to contribute to this change.
One Voice campaigns for animal’s rights across France and abroad, and fights for an evolution of their legal status.
It fights to close the dolphinariums and to put an end to animal exploitation in circuses. It works to find a long-term solution for stray cats and dogs and is involved in the fight against poaching.
One Voice defends sentient beings, regardless of their species, against all forms of exploitation, and works to create a relationship with animals with respect for their identities. Follow our actions: http://one-voice.fr/ en/index. html
PAAWA (Pan African Animal Welfare Alliance), is an Alliance that involves 20 African animal welfare and conservation organisations from 15 different countries across the continent.
Actions: it is to engage all stakeholders on all matters relating to animal welfare on the continent.
World Animal Net (WAN) – www.worldanimal.net – is the world’s largest network of animal protection societies with over 3,000 affiliates in more than 125 countries and Consultative Status at the United Nations. WAN works from offices in the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, the United States and South Africa. We work with and for animal protection organizations, and our work covers vital areas such as: strategic advocacy; animal protection collaboration (networks, alliances, coalitions and federations); humane education; international policy; animal welfare legislation; constitutions; and animal protection society management.
