Leave No Trace in the High Atlas
Tourism can lift mountain communities or erode them. Here's how we keep our footprint light — and how every trekker who joins us helps protect Toubkal National Park.
Toubkal National Park is a living landscape — home to Berber villages that have farmed these valleys for centuries. Protecting it is not an add-on to what we do; it is the whole point of doing it locally.
Local first, always
Every guide, cook and muleteer on our trips is born and raised in these mountains. Money from your trek stays in the valley, supporting families directly rather than distant operators.
Carry it in, carry it out
- All waste returns with us — nothing is left or burned on the trail
- We cook on gas, never on scarce mountain wood
- Group sizes stay small to limit trail erosion
- We encourage refillable bottles and filtered water over single-use plastic
Water and the villages
We use refill points responsibly and respect the irrigation channels that villages depend on. Small choices, repeated across thousands of trekkers, decide whether this place thrives.
What you can do
- Stay on the path — shortcuts accelerate erosion
- Ask before photographing people, and greet with "salam"
- Dress modestly in villages
- Buy crafts and tea from local cooperatives
Travel with us and you are part of that decision — for the better. See how a village stay works on our 5-day Berber villages trek.