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This promising and environmentally sustainable business
endeavour would contribute to sustainable development by
generating economic opportunities for local populations
(hotels, restaurants, local products, etc.). It would also elevate
global awareness of the value of Moroccan environmental
resources as well as encouraging students to pursue studies
and research in the
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eld of palaeontology. Nevertheless, it
should be noted that a geopark can only be economically
viable if proper institutional support of the local communities
and NGOs are involved. Furthermore, much can be learned
from examples of pilot projects in countries that might be
taken as a model of sustainable development.
Acknowledgments The author gratefully acknowledges the
“
Direction
g
of the OCP Group, in Casablanca, for administrative autho-
rizations, and the staff of the OCP mining center of Khouribga for their
assistance in the eld. Special thanks to M.A. O
é
n
é
rale
”
Leary (Stony Brook
university, New York, USA), M.J. Duane (Kuwait university, Kuwait),
C. Underwood (Birkbeck university of London), D. Ward (Tertiary
Research group, Kent, UK), and to the anonymous reviewers for reading
the manuscript critically. I warmly thank Madam C. Smith (Permissions
Assistant at Nature Publishing Group, London) for allowing permission
to use a
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proboscidean Phosphatherium escuilliei, and J. Ramos (university of
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