Crocoparc Agadir is the first crocodile zoo in Morocco, opened in May 2015 in the suburbs of Agadir. It is home to 325 Nile crocodiles (Crocodylus niloticus) in a botanical garden spanning approximately 4 hectares. The park is located on the outskirts of Agadir, in the commune of Drargua, along the national road 8 towards Marrakech. Crocoparc was created at the initiative of a former family of Agadir, which a member, Luc Fougeirol, expert in reptiles and crocodile enthusiast since a young age, is the designer. He already created in 1994 the crocodile farm of Pierrelatte, the first park of...

Crocoparc Agadir is the first crocodile zoo in Morocco, opened in May 2015 in the suburbs of Agadir. It is home to 325 Nile crocodiles (Crocodylus niloticus) in a botanical garden spanning approximately 4 hectares. The park is located on the outskirts of Agadir, in the commune of Drargua, along the national road 8 towards Marrakech. Crocoparc was created at the initiative of a former family of Agadir, which a member, Luc Fougeirol, expert in reptiles and crocodile enthusiast since a young age, is the designer. He already created in 1994 the crocodile farm of Pierrelatte, the first park of its kind in Europe then participated in the creation of The Crocodile Planet of Civaux and the crocodile farm of Djerba Explore Djerba. The design of Crocoparc Agadir was guided by the desire to participate in the safeguarding of the Nile crocodile, a protected species and to allow the public, using signposts and by the presence of animators, to discover the animal and his way of life. For the crocodile, it is a kind of homecoming since the latter still lived in southern Morocco in the years 1950-1951. Crocoparc is available to scientists and students who, having access to different places of life crocodiles, including the nursery, can study among other things the reproduction of crocodiles. The crocodile species housed at Crocoparc is the Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus), a species whose males can grow up to 4 to 6 meters long and one ton weight. The crocodiles were brought from the crocodile farm of Djerba Explore Park in Tunisia where they grew up outdoors. The climate of Djerba is almost similar to that of Agadir, which facilitated their acclimatization. The first crocodiles, arrived in March 2014, more than a year before the opening of the park, were housed in a nearby nursery. Crocoparc offers crocodiles three sealed basins operating in a closed circuit; the water flows into an upper pool through a cascade several meters high, continues to a toboggan to get into an intermediate pool and then ends up in a lower pool. Then water is pumped back to the waterfall. Resting burrows are permanently maintained at a temperature of more than 15 ° C have been planned in different areas of the park. Finally, scattered throughout the park are large sunny beaches allowing crocodiles to warm up as well as areas of sand allowing females to lay eggs. On 13 July 2016, Crocoparc inaugurated a laboratory and nursery open to visitors, students, scientists and teacher-researchers to allow the hatching of eggs and the development of baby crocodiles. August 8, 2016, was born the first baby crocodile Crocoparc, an animal whose last species had disappeared from Morocco since the 1950s. Crocoparc has a botanical garden with plants from all over the world. It is composed of five thematic areas: - The blue garden of succulent bluish plants, including Aloe suzannae. - The exotic place with ficus more than fifty years. - The water garden, large collection of water lilies including the Victoria cruziana and a papyrus alley of the Nile. - A tropical space with two Bellombra (Phytolacca dioica), giant bamboos, palms and bromeliads. - The cactus garden composed of aloe, agave on a new course of 200m.