UNESCO designated Jebel ech Chambi as a biosphere reserve in 1977. The total area of the reserve is , with a core area of . About 8,000 people live within the reserve, mostly subsistence farmers raising livestock, growing cereals, keeping bees and growing trees as a plantation crop. The core area was inaugurated as Chambi National Park in 1980 to protect the natural environment of the massif.Le Parc National Chambi , Tunitrip
