Eighteenth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability

Abstract

The Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus) is a reliable indicator of the state of health and mortality of the Cedar Forest, without its existence, this value cannot be attributed to it. These two species are part of the same ecosystem, in fact, they undergo, consequently the same threats. The cedar trees wither are subject to numerous attacks, whose causes are multiple: climate change, anthropic action, lithological nature, specific diversity, density, epidemic, and the Barbary macaque. The study carried out in middle Atlas. The database was collected from January 2013 to June 2015(1200 day). The study was entirely observational and my data collection was not invasive based on 30 minutes continuous focal animal samples (ecological behaviours: bark stripping and feeding behaviours). Every focal was recorded with all environmental parameters. However, those environmental parameters are modelised with density and logging sites. The results show the important effect of insect (p-value<0.0001) on cedar caused by anthropic actions. However, the Barbary macaque is not the origin of degradation of the cedar. This has only one understandable explanation; Climate change, overgrazing, and abusive logging, are the main causes that reduce the annual distribution of cedar forests. By destroying the habitat of the Barbary macaque habitat and therefore the diversity of their diet. For this reason, the Barbary macaques abandons the forest to feed outside.The results of this study give a more preventive strategy to protect the Moroccan cedars and the Barbary macaque, by betting on the long-term management of disturbances within the framework of the ecosystem.