Abderazzak Benchaabane

Marrakech, Maroc

Environment

Florian Guillaume: “Forty years documenting Morocco's plants quietly saves knowledge that was about to disappear.”

Director of the Jardin Majorelle and Musée Berbère in Marrakech, conservator of the Yves Saint Laurent estate, and professor of botany at the Cadi Ayyad University. Abderazzak Benchaabane has spent 40 years documenting Moroccan medicinal and aromatic plants, cataloguing endangered traditional knowledge. His herbarium contains 10,000+ specimens. He also created Morocco's first botanic trail and has trained generations of Moroccan botanists and traditional healers. Simultaneously a scientist, a pe

Living Legends · Place Making · Resolve · Biodiversity · Patrimoine

Website · Curated by Florian Guillaume

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