Sir Bani Yas Island

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SIR BANI YAS ISLAND, EMIRATE OF ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES.

About the island:
About 170 kilometers west of Abu Dhabi and extends a length of 5.17 km from north to south, and there are a series of barren volcanic mountains reach a height of 148 meters. Featuring a depth of the seabed around it up to about 46 feet. The lack of a natural source of drinking water, but the tireless efforts made by the UAE government has yielded good as turned this island the efforts of the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the island of barren green paradise contains all kinds of plants from fruit trees and fruit to forests and trees shades and decorative living overhead and migratory wild birds and domesticated animals graze in the boundaries of rare and endangered species. Began developing the island by the year 1971, the year saw the emergence of the Union in the UAE, where the island was in the past, a place where divers in the UAE during seasons search for pearls in the Arabian Gulf now became home to animals and birds and a beautiful place tends to amateur trips and nature, and is one of the The most important areas that attract visitors from schools and universities to identify the rarest species of animals and birds as well as the destination for tourists from all over the world.
The divided island of Sir Bani Yas into three zones: the first pens for keeping animals in specific locations, the second: places for human living by freely grazing for large numbers of animals to roam, the third: pasture for large numbers of animals to roam freely fully.
Of the island approximately 260 forest fenced containing up to three million trees local forest, which bear the heat and thirst, and 300 thousand fruit trees, olive, beans and tamarind in more than 32 farm and the most important types of fruit and fruit that have successfully cultivated Sir Bani Yas: apple, orange, citrus , olive, almond, palm trees, lemon, grapefruit, grapes, Albomli, pineapple, pomegranate, papaya, raspberry, carob, guava, banana.
And resides on the island of Sir Bani Yas, in parks and forests open, more than 60 thousand animals distributed over 23 species of wild animals, including some endangered species, which have been brought in from various countries around the world, and provides terrain island nature reserves, and a safe haven for herds of deer The Arabian oryx African giraffes, llamas, Arabian tahr, there is also the island's other animals have adapted to nature and the new climate, have proliferated in it, most notably the Arabian gazelle (antelope), and the Arabian gazelle (Aldmani), which is endemic in the Arabian Peninsula and the Sinai Peninsula and the Red Sea, which lives in herds small in the plains or rocky land, and has been raising about 500 head in the desert and provided them (as for other wild animals and birds) feed, water and veterinary care Vtcathert good for up to about 2000 deer.

Also live on the island other animals such as oryx Scimitar coming from South Africa, Ethiopian hedgehog, elk Aijlira native to South Africa, and Alonthelob black, native to India, llama or camel next U.S. from South America, Indian gazelle (Black Buck), gazelle Dorcas, and Ghazal Grant which originated in East Africa.
And also live on the island of Sir Bani Yas many rare birds endemic and migratory birds, the most important of Houbara Bustard, which is gaining importance for the people of the region from being used Ktridp for amateur falconry, which is an important part of the heritage of the State, in addition to bird the ostrich of Africa, which has nothing of kin of the ostrich Arab that have become extinct from the wild. It also includes Rayyan and IMO, which have increased their numbers are all significant and equal, and has indicated the scientific reports about these types of birds to the presence of about 170 species of wild birds came out, some of them in reproduction, most notably birds flamingos, which congregate in large numbers over one hundred in the lakes In the shallow, artificial ponds, protected by mangrove trees of the tidal currents, and containing a list of birds found on the island at least 169 species have been recorded by members of the UAE and birds for the QNB Group Antrza Research birds.