Editing Atlas Mountains (section)

==Flora and fauna==
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[[File:Barbary lion.jpg|thumb|A male [[Barbary lion]] photographed in [[Algeria]] by [[Alfred Edward Pease]] in 1893.<ref name="Pease1913" />]]

[[File:Blidean Atlas mixed forest May 2010.jpg|thumb|Mixed forest (Atlas cedar, oaks, ash trees) in the Blidean Atlas ( a part of the Tell Atlas) , South of [[Algiers]].]]

Flora in the mountains include the [[Atlas cedar]],<ref name=gaussen>Gaussen, H. (1964). Genre ''Cedrus''. Les Formes Actuelles. ''Trav. Lab. For. Toulouse'' T2 V1 11: 295–320</ref> [[evergreen oak]] and many semi-evergreen oaks such as the [[Algerian oak]].

Animals that live in the area include the [[Barbary macaque]] (misnamed as the Barbary ape),<ref name="VanLavieren2012">Van Lavieren, E. (2012). The Barbary Macaque (''Macaca sylvanus''); A unique endangered primate species struggling to survive. Revista Eubacteria, (30): 1–4.</ref> [[Barbary leopard]],<ref name="Emmanuel1982">{{cite journal |last=Emmanuel |first=John |title=A Survey of Population and Habitat of the Barbary Macaqu Macaca Sylvanus L. In North Morocco |journal=Biological Conservation |date=September 1982 |volume=24 |issue=1 |pages=45–66 |doi=10.1016/0006-3207(82)90046-5|bibcode=1982BCons..24...45F }}</ref> [[Barbary stag]], [[Barbary sheep]], [[Honey badger|Atlas Mountain badger]], [[Cuvier's gazelle]], [[North African boar]], [[striped hyena]], [[red fox]], [[northern bald ibis]], [[Algerian nuthatch]], [[dipper]], and [[Atlas mountain viper]].

Many animals used to inhabit the Atlas mountains such as the [[Atlas bear]],<ref name="Bryden1899">{{cite book |author=Johnston, H. H. |year=1899 |pages=544–608 |title=Great and small game of Africa |location=London |url=https://archive.org/stream/greatsmallgameof00majo#page/544/mode/2up |editor1-last=Bryden |editor1-first=H. A. |publisher=Rowland Ward Ltd.}}</ref> [[North African elephant]], North African [[aurochs]], [[bubal hartebeest]] and [[Atlas wild ass]],<ref name=equids>{{cite book|last=Des Roses Moehlman|first=Patricia|title=Equids: Zebras, Asses, and Horses: Status Survey and Conservation Action plan|year=2002|publisher=IUCN|location=Cambridge|isbn=9782831706474|page=2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8Bj4q83ry1QC&q=%22Atlas+Wild+Ass%22&pg=PA2}}</ref> but these subspecies are all extinct. [[Barbary lion]]s<ref name="Pease1913">{{cite book |last=Pease |first=A. E. |author-link=Alfred Edward Pease |title=The Book of the Lion |publisher=[[John Murray (publishing house)|John Murray]] |chapter=The Distribution of Lions |pages=109−147 |location=London |year=1913 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/bookoflion1913alfr#page/112/mode/2up}}</ref> are currently extinct in the wild, but descendants exist in captivity.<ref name="YamaguchiHaddane2002">{{cite journal |author1=Yamaguchi, N. |author2=Haddane, B. |year=2002 |title=The North African Barbary Lion and the Atlas Lion Project |journal=International Zoo News |volume=49 |issue=8 |pages=465–481 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266755974}}</ref><ref name="Burger2006">{{Cite journal |doi=10.1007/s10344-005-0009-z |url=http://www.uni-mainz.de/FB/Biologie/Anthropologie/MolA/Download/Burger%20Hemmer%202006.pdf |title=Urgent call for further breeding of the relic zoo population of the critically endangered Barbary lion (''Panthera leo leo'' Linnaeus 1758) |year=2006 |author=Burger, J. |author2=Hemmer, H. |journal=European Journal of Wildlife Research |volume=52 |issue=1 |pages=54–58 |s2cid=30407194 |access-date=2007-04-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070703152826/http://www.uni-mainz.de/FB/Biologie/Anthropologie/MolA/Download/Burger%20Hemmer%202006.pdf |archive-date=2007-07-03 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Black_al2010">{{Cite journal |author=Black, S. |author2=Yamaguchi, N. |author3=Harland, A.|author4=Groombridge, J. |name-list-style=amp |title=Maintaining the genetic health of putative Barbary lions in captivity: an analysis of Moroccan Royal Lions |journal=European Journal of Wildlife Research |volume=56 |issue=1 |pages=21–31 |year=2010 |doi=10.1007/s10344-009-0280-5 |s2cid=44941372 |url=http://kar.kent.ac.uk/27502/1/Black_et_al_%282009%29_Genetic_Health_of_putative_barbary_lions.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170808151129/https://kar.kent.ac.uk/27502/1/Black_et_al_(2009)_Genetic_Health_of_putative_barbary_lions.pdf |archive-date=2017-08-08 |url-status=live}}</ref>