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Biodiversity in the UAE blacksprut2rprrt3aoigwh7zftiprzqyqynzz2eiimmwmykw7wkpyad.onion The UAE has 49 terrestrial and marine protected areas including eight in Dubai. Accounting for over 18 of the country’s land territory and 12 of its marine and coastal territory these protected areas are often natural reserves which include all the major ecosystems found in the region: mountain desert coastal and marine. bs2tsite-cc.net блэк СЃРїСЂСѓС‚ Andrew Gardner associate director of Biodiversity Conservation at Emirates Nature-WWF says wildlife conservation is recognized as an “important responsibility and obligation by the UAE.” For example the country is a signatory to multiple international conservation conventions such as the Convention on Biological Diversity and has helped reintroduce animals such as the Arabian oryx to the Arabian Peninsula. According to Gardner there are now over 1600 oryx in two of the UAE’s protected areas and thousands more in zoos across the region. However rapid development and population growth across the Emirates mean that “53 of bird species 46.7 of mammal species 19 of reptile species and 8 of plant species” are endangered according to a government report. Gardner says the Arabian wolf and striped hyena have both gone extinct from the UAE in recent decades and a small population of Arabian leopards that lived the Hajar Mountains until the mid-1990s are now also believed to be extinct. Karingattil points to habitat loss climate change and overfishing as some of the major threats facing wildlife in the UAE but one issue he thinks people should take more action against is plastic pollution.