Prof. Jalal El Oualidi (Institut Scientifique de Rabat, ISR) receives the first seed accessions from the CIEF's seedbank, given at hand by the Semclimed coordinator, Mr Antoni Marzo (CIEF). This first delivery included seeds of Anarhinum fruticosum and Boerhavia repens, two North-Western African species whose unique relictic populations to Europe are found in the province of Alicante (Valencian Community, Spain).

After the development of the first Semclimed's campaign to harvest seeds in Morocco (October 2006), in order to initiate the creation of the ISR's seedbank, some of the project partners gone on with the cooperation actions proposed in the Semclimed's phase 4. During the recent meeting of the project in Rabat (15th-19th May), the main coordinator Antoni Marzo officially delivered to the ISR a first pack of seedbank equipments, as well as several seed accession, both coming from the first campaign (October 2006), and from Valencian populations of shared rare or threatened plant species.

The second campaign, developed in May under the coordination of Dr. Jalal El Oualidi (Institute Scientifique de Rabat) and Dr. Josep M. Montserrat (Institut Botànic de Barcelona) has yielded poor results, due to the extensive lack of seeds in the prospected Moroccan sites. Sudden warming registered by early May has quickly dried the flowering stems of most Maroccan endemic species, choosen in the former months as main targets to fill the future seedbank of the ISR.

Prof. Josep M. Montserrat, during the field excursion of the 2nd Semclimed's meeting at Lixus and the Bas Loukkos area(Larache)