Dar Fatma peatlands

The Dar Fatma peatlands (Les Tourbières de Dar Fatma) are a natural site located at an altitude of 780 m in the Jendouba Governorate, northwestern Tunisia, covering an area of fifteen hectares. It was classified as a nature reserve in 1993 and a Ramsar site on 7 November 2007. The protected site was created to preserve the unique flora's biotope. Additionally, the peat, by preserving trapped and fossilized pollen and spores, provides unique scientific information about the dynamics and functioning of ecosystems that have succeeded one another for nearly 33,000 years. The Dar Fatma peatland has no known equivalent elsewhere in North Africa and constitutes a "climatic and paleobotanical archive box. According to local legend, the name Dar Fatma (House of Fatma in Arabic) comes from the story of a young Roman bride who drowned or got stuck in the wetland. The origin of the name shows a long-standing and deep recognition of the area's wet nature.

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