Fujairah’s Wadi Wonderland

Xpress News, 5 June 2008, gives a progress report on the three year conservation project at Fujairah’s Wadi Wuraya. See article written at the project’s commencement.

Located in the emirate of Fujairah, this environmental area is a thirty minute drive from the Al Bidya mosque in Khor Fakkan, fifteen minutes of which involves an off-road drive.

The site is valuable for its water resources, flora (300+ plant species) and fauna (75 insects, the Arabian tahr, snakes, lizards and maybe the Arabian leopard?) It is also rich in archaeological assets.

To read the entire interesting article, follow this link:
Vikram Singh Barhat, ‘How Green is my Wadi: Wildlife Awakening’, Xpress News, 5 June 2008.

Image: Dr Tourenq of the Emirates Wildlife Society-WWF.

Related:
Fujairah Moving Towards Natural Tourism, ETE, 14 June 2007.