Aunque con algunos contratiempos que no vienen al caso, en estos días se ha presentado al 1st International Congress on North African Vertebrate Palaeontology (25-27 de Mayo) en Marrakech una puesta al día del Proyecto PALDES que distintas instituciones españolas desarrollan en Níger con el objetivo de potenciar el desarrollo local mediante proyectos entrelazados alrededor de la explotación del patrimonio paleontológico como un recurso socio-cultural.
La situación política y social de la zona en la que se desarrolla PALDES no pasa por sus mejores momentos y es realmente complejo el desarrollo de los objetivos, pero, como puede verse en la imagen, el trabajo en la zona continúa.
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PALDES PROJECT. PALEONTOLOGY FOR DEVELOPMENT IN NIGER
ORTEGA F.2,4, FIERRO I.3, CHIAPPE L.8, DANTAS P.4,5,7, ESCASO F.1,6, GASULLA J.M.1, LÓPEZ E.3, MARÍN-FERRER J.M.3, POMARES A. 3, RIBEIRO B.7, SANZ J.L.1, TENT-MANCLÚS J.E.9, AMADOU O.10 & MAGA A.10
1Unidad de Paleontologia. Facultad de Ciencias. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain; 2Facultad de Ciencias. UNED. c/ Senda del Rey, 9. 28040 Madrid, Spain; 3MUPE. Paza de San Juan s/n, 03203. Elche, Spain); 4Laboratório de Paleontologia da ALT-SHN, Torres Vedras (Portugal); 5Laboratório de História Natural da Batalha (Portugal); 6Museo de las Ciencias de Castilla-La Mancha (Cuenca, Spain); 7 Museu Nacional de História Natural (Lisboa, Portugal); 8Dinosaur Institute. The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County USA.; 9Universidad de Alicante (Spain); 10Université Abdou Moumouni, IRSH, Niamey (Niger)
PALDES project is the way of combining the research work on some Mesozoic fossil sites in southern Agadez (Niger) with a regional development program. This area is well-known by outcrops like those from the Tiguidit cliffs or Gadofaoua.
The PALDES project began in 2003, bringing together a number of Spanish institutions with scientific and social objectives around a proposal by the Niger Association AJOBER (Association pour la Protection, la Surveillance et l'Entretien des Sites de Dinosaures). Since then, were identified the primary goals of the project: the construction of a Museum of Paleontology in Tadibene, the application for a international protection figure for the fossil sites in the area, the construction of the needed infrastructures to promote a Tourism of Quality, the construction of Health infrastructures indispensable for the nomads and the tourists, the strengthening of educational structures in the area (especially the nomadic schools) the development of agropastoral activities and the improvement of water resources.
During last years, PALDES has developed various institutional activities, the development and financing of the Museum of Tadibene project and several field seasons, such as that which enabled the recovery of remains of a new sauropod in Azenak (Aderbissinat) that is currently under preparation at the Spanish Museo Paleontológico de Elche.
Currently the project's goal is broader, seeking to collaborate in establishing a general trend of tourism development based on the potential of paleontological resources in the axis between Niamey (by reference to the National Museum) and deposits in the area of Agadez.
Key words: PALDES, dinosaurs, museum, Lower Cretaceous, Niger, Africa, Development.
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