Natural Reserves
Love tribute made by shaping a heart with thousands of oak trees.
A devoted farmer created this touching heart-shaped meadow as a tribute to his late wife – by planting thousands of oak trees. Dedicated Winston Howes, 70, spent a week planting each oak sapling after his wife of 33 years Janet died suddenly 17 years ago. He laid out the fledgling trees in a six-acre field [...]
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Ajmal’s Summer Trek in the Sharjah Desert
Early AM on Saturday-May 18, 2012, I headed out on my routine weekend nature trip into the desert. My visit was to a desert area in Sharjah that is approximately 25 kilometers away from Sharjah City and is an area I have been frequenting now for a few years. My trip goals were two-fold: (1) [...]
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Interview with His Excellency Sheikh Butti Bin Maktoum Bin Juma Al Maktoum
The zoological and conservation fields have a long tradition of being supported by royalty,: HRH Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh, was President of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) from 1981-1996, while in the UAE HH Sheikh Zayed al Nahyan, the former President of the UAE founded many programs to protect the country’s wildlife. [...]
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Blacktip Reef Shark spotted in Kuwait waters
127 fish species seen near Qaru Island WRAPPING UP its work in August 2011 and sponsored by TOTAL Foundation and TOTAL Kuwait, the Kuwait Turtle Conservation Project (KTCP) was on islands Qaru and Umm Al- Maradim for three full years, monitoring sea turtle populations along with their nesting and hatching habitats in Kuwait. Both islands [...]
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Discovery Islands turn a safe haven for winged wonders
Conservation teams work hard to preserve eco-system. Abu Dhabi: When a turtle starts nesting on the beaches of Discovery Islands, the activity is detected by a GPS (Global Positioning System) device of the conservation teams who act immediately. They wipe away the turtle prints leading to and from the nest to prevent illegal poachers from [...]
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