Casablanca Zoo: the angry reopening

After more than ten years of closure, the Aïn Sebaâ zoo is finally preparing to reopen its doors to the public at the beginning of 2025. This announcement, which delights the people of Casablanca, is however accompanied by a growing controversy concerning entry prices considered excessive for the wallets of Moroccans.

The Casablanca City Council will meet this Thursday, November 28 to ratify the park management contract entrusted to the company Dream Village, already at the head of the ecological village of Mohammedia. The mayor of Casablanca, Nabila Rmili, justified the delay in opening by highlighting the difficulty of reconciling a quality service worthy of international standards and the need to fill a management deficit estimated at 20 million dirhams.