Bab El Nouar introduces the fauna and flora of Morocco, not as a scientific inventory, but as stories you want to follow to the very end. Each title is rooted in a real species and tells the story of everything that lives around it. Readers discover that a single tree can be a whole world: the bird that nests in it, the insect that feeds on its flowers, the animal that shelters in it, the people who depend on it.
Readers learn to name the trees, plants and animals around them, in the garden, on the balcony, or in the forests and deserts of the country. They discover endemic species, some of them endangered, and understand why protecting nature is not an abstract gesture but a concrete necessity. They also learn that Moroccan nature (North African) carries a history, traditions and know-how found nowhere else in the world, and they take pride in their culture and their land alike.
Meeting in a book the tree they know, or the animal their grandmother used to talk about, gives readers one more reason to become attached to it, and to protect it.