Africa & Arab States

Mauritania

• © UNESCO/Bernard Galy
• Caravan in the desert, Mauritania

The country is covered by the UNESCO Cluster Office in Rabat, Morocco.

The Delta du Fleuve Sénégal Biosphere Reserve, shared by Mauritania and Senegal, was the 2^nd Transboundary Biosphere Reserve established in Africa. Its management is assured by three inter-state bodies and a national committee in each country. A transboundary coordinating committee is in charge of the policy guidelines.

Mauritania is also supporting the Regional School on Integrated Management of Tropical Forests and Territories (ERAIFT), located in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Below you can access the projects that are currently being implemented in the country within the framework of UNESCO’s Natural Sciences Sector.

People, Biodiversity and Ecology

- Regional School on Integrated Management of Tropical Forests and Territories (ERAIFT)

- Biosphere Reserves (WNBRs)

Oceans

- International Oceanographic Data and Information exchange (IODE)

- OceanData and Information Network for Africa (ODINAFRICA)

Earth Sciences

- Pan-African Network for a Geoscience Information System (PANGIS)

- The boundaries of the West African craton (IGCP, Project 485)

- The role of Holocene environmental catastrophes in human history (IGCP, Project 490)

- Neoproterozoic ice ages (IGCP, Project 512)

Natural Disaster Reduction

- Reducing Earthquake Losses in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (RELEMR) programme