The “Amodo” program team continues to search for the “Atlas Lion” during the next season

Al-Hussein Fawzi, the producer of the “Amodo” program, said, “The end of the search campaign that the program launched last season without discovering the “Atlas Lion” in the Khénifra region did not extinguish the team’s hopes of finding this lion. If this dream comes true, we will produce exciting documentaries about this lion during the next season of the program.”

The producer of the program, which is celebrating its 24th anniversary, added in a chat with Hespress that “the fatigue of the last campaign will not deter the team from continuing the search, and at the beginning of the next season, it will set up its cameras in the mountains and forests of the Middle Atlas, seeking to find a “rare” creature in a vast and sprawling area,” noting that “even if it is proven that this lion is extinct, we will undoubtedly find the Atlas tiger.”

“We cannot confirm the extinction of the Atlas lion, and we have indicators that feed our persistent doubts about its existence. Twenty people gave their testimonies to the team about seeing the lion, knowing that they had no motive to lie or make claims. Among these is the statement of an elderly man who said he saw it in the late 1980s, in addition to the incident of finding an Atlas lion cub in the late 1970s by tourists near Ifrane,” Fawzi said.

For more than 24 twenty years, the Moroccan viewer’s interest in the “Amodo” program on Al Oula TV has not diminished. It is a collective loyalty that can be explained, according to Fawzi, in “the program’s persistence in producing documentaries that quench Moroccans’ thirst to discover remote areas rich in natural and cultural resources that they have never visited, and that delve into history to dust off events and facts that are almost forgotten in Moroccan memory,” stressing that “the quality of the product is what creates consensus, and the continuity in producing high-quality documentaries would not have been achieved without a team that loved the work and committed itself to patience in the face of the challenges of the field for more than two decades.”

Al-Hussein Fawzi stressed that “the trilogy of love for work, patience and harmony among the team members is what contributed to the continuation of the “Amodo” program for 24 years, and its continued presence among the priorities of the Moroccan viewer; and it is a long period and not an easy one, because experience has proven that most television programs cannot withstand this period, or at least do not succeed in maintaining the same levels of viewer interest since the first season.”

Regarding the topics that the documentary series is expected to address during the seventeenth season, the producing director of the “Amodo” program stated that “his team is still studying a group of ideas and topics regarding the documentaries that it will produce during this season, and will meet in meetings to decide on them,” stressing that “Morocco is an inexhaustible reservoir of documentary topics; it abounds with vast natural areas that have not been visited, in addition to being a linguistically and culturally diverse country, because it was once the end of the world; which made all civilizations stop at it and leave their mark on it.”