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Attached to the governorship of Kébili, delegation of Douz, the Saharan national park of Jebil is located at approximately 80 km in the South of Douz, and at meadows of 100 km of the town of Kébili. It belongs to Cherkhats de Glissia and Zaafrane. It covers a surface of Saharan courses and of great erg approximately 150.000 ha directed.

The flora and the fauna of the park are fed out of water thanks to the networks of thalwegs of a few tens of centimetres constituting of the beds of flow towards the small depressions existing inside the site; water gathers there by streaming. The vegetation of the jebil is typically Saharan. Among the perennial species, one observes primarily Aristida pungens which occupy the small dunes and, Oudneya africana, emblematic species of the park. But one finds also the calligonum, which shelters behind the dunes and which thanks to the conservation can reach a sizeable height. On the reg., one finds Anabasis articulata and Oudneya africana on Piedmont of the solid mass. Fauna is conditioned by the resources which the natural environments offer. It is composed of Sahariennes species adapted to extreme climatic conditions. Thus one can observe there rare species such as the Gazelle of the dunes "Rim" or gazella leptoceros, the endemic species most characteristic of the area, or the fennec, fennecus zerda. The park allows also the conservation of the ecosystems of life of the Bustard will houbara which one sees sometimes. The pale hare of the South, lepus capensis pallidor, and various rodents the such gerboise, jaculus jaculus, constitute the food of several reptiles, the such viper with horns, ceraste cerastes, whose presence points out the vigilance of the visitors.

The mountainous solid mass of Jebil does not seem to present particular archaeological traces (absence of large vestiges). However, at the time prehistoric, the life in the area was apparently possible for the man, one found, indeed, in between the dunes crusts, flints cut out of tools, as well as remains of egg shells of ostriches. The site of Jebil is also an old Berber camping still exploited. The park shelters a station of guarding, enclosures of acclimatization and reception facilities are in the course of installation. One envisages the finalization of one écomusée and an information center d' on a high plateau opposite the Great Erg, of tracks suitable for motor vehicles, points of observation. The guarding of the park is carried out by guards with horse or dromedary, according to the difficulty of the supervised area. The main entrance of the park is located at the height of Chabet el Bdha and comprises a housing of guard supplied with solar energy.