It was only 6:45 a.m., photographer Joel Sartore noted—and yet his clothes were soaked through to the skin, like “I’d been thrown in a swimming pool.” On this muggy September morning, he was stretched ...

Several thousand feet up on a jagged escarpment overlooking the Arabian Sea, Hadi al-Hikmani has come searching for a shy and reclusive creature. The Arabian leopard, the last remaining big cat in the ...

Received from the UAE as part of a project funded by the Environment Agency-Abu Dhabi, the initiative aims to improve the genetic structure of an existing herd of ninety oryx. The last Arabian Oryx ...

A female cobra has laid down 19 eggs which were placed by researchers on an incubator so as to monitor and collect data on temperature, humidity and growth of embryos. After 59 days, 16 babies were ...

The fourth international conservation workshop on endangered species of the Arabian peninsula will open today at the Arabian Wildlife Centre in Sharjah. It is being organised by the Environment and ...

Dunes stretch as far as the eye can see, shifting in color from red, to orange to beige. Suddenly a flash of white appears on the horizon, then another. A pair of Arabian oryx comes into view. While ...

President His Highness Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan has endorsed an agreement with the other GCC countries to pool regional efforts and chalk out joint programmes to protect the local wildlife, ...

Lace up the hiking boots and get ready for action: Abu Dhabi is an open-air playground waiting to be explored. Saddle up and ride into the world’s largest uninterrupted sand desert. Photograph by ...