Volunteers in southern Morocco collected up to 600 kilos of desert waste during a clean-up linked to the International Nomads Festival in M'Hamis El Ghizlane.
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00:00In Southern Morocco, locals and tourists have come together hunting for waste embedded in the sand and they don't have to look far.
00:15Near the edge of a village bordering the Sahara, volunteers stepped up to fight pollution.
00:22This clean-up effort is part of the 20th International Nomads Festival.
00:27Nordin Bograb, the festival's founder, said that the campaign brings together artists, activists and foreign tourists and is a call for the world's deserts to be protected.
00:39The festival has been working with young people in the region, artists and other people.
00:48It was a pleasure to work with this very powerful effect and this is the first sign of the Sahara's land that began to change.
01:00French photographer Ronald Le Flocke talks about how rare it is to see clean-up drives
01:29in deserts and how important it is to protect all parts of our planet.
01:55Malian musician Osman Agumar shares how plastic waste harms animals and why nomadic communities
02:02need clean lands for their survival.
02:04More than 50 volunteers worked for five hours.
02:11More than 50 volunteers worked for five hours, collecting between 400 and 600 kilos of waste.
02:32More than 50 volunteers worked for five hours, collecting between 400 and 600 kilos of waste.
02:41More than 50 volunteers worked for five hours.
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