Arabian Environment

EAD highlights UAE's biodiversity through stamps
Many of the species that were once relatively common in the UAE are today considered to be endangered or threatened due to habitat degradation and overgrazing.
Sunday, February 25 - 2007 at 12:55 |

TOTAL to extend funding for two years For EAD's dugong research and conservation project - Phase III
An agreement to monitor the endangered dugong and study their population in UAE waters as well as enhance regional cooperation for their conservation will be signed on January 29, 2007 by the Environment Agency- Abu Dhabi (EAD) and TOTAL ABU AL BUKHOOSH.
Monday, January 29 - 2007 at 09:45 |

Abu Dhabi progresses toward introduction of green diesel as fuel
The Abu Dhabi Government is continuing its progress toward introducing Green Diesel in all vehicles and industries, announced the technical committee which was formed by the Abu Dhabi Executive Council.
Wednesday, January 24 - 2007 at 14:09 |

Avian visitor draws UAE bird lovers
Birdwatchers from all over the United Arab Emirates (UAE) flocked to Abu Dhabi this week, to see a bird that has never been recorded anywhere else in the Arabian Peninsula, or in the wider Arab world, or, indeed, anywhere west of Russia's Ural Mountains, in the region known to geographers as the Western Palaearctic.
Tuesday, December 26 - 2006 at 10:29 |

National campaign to protect the ghaf tree launched
The Al Fahim Group of Companies, in partnership with Emirates Wildlife Society - World Wide Fund for Nature (EWS-WWF), today launched a nationwide campaign to protect the ghaf tree, a native species that is rapidly disappearing from Arabia's desert environs.
Thursday, December 07 - 2006 at 11:18 |

Endangered sea turtles and coral reefs of the Gulf
The Gulf provides habitat for five of the planet's seven marine turtle species. It also supports coral reefs, West Asia accounting for eight per cent of the world's mapped reefs.
Thursday, November 23 - 2006 at 09:43 |

UAE helps track marine turtles in Pakistan using satellite transmitters
In line with its belief in strengthening nation-wide partnerships and sharing of technologies for the benefit of environmental conservation, the Environment Agency - Abu Dhabi (EAD), in cooperation with WWF - Pakistan, the country's largest conservation NGO, and the Sindh Wildlife Department, recently installed a satellite transmitter on a marine turtle at the Sandspit, Karachi coast.
Tuesday, September 26 - 2006 at 09:10 |

Morocco Centre going the distance to achieve a thriving houbara population
The Houbara bustard, prized as a quarry for falconers and once in dramatic decline, has begun to thrive once again thanks to the efforts of the Emirates Centre for Wildlife Propagation (ECWP), located in Missour, Eastern Morocco.
Tuesday, September 19 - 2006 at 10:56 |