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The Nafud is connected to the Rub' al Khali by the Dahna, a corridor of gravel plains and sand dunes, 800 mi (1,287 km) long and 15 to 50 miles (24.1 to 80.5 km) wide. During the Arab Revolt in 1917, forces led by Auda ibu Tayi attacked the Turkish-held coastal town of Aqaba on its poorly defended eastern flank. The approach was via a long and ...
This was followed by many other national parks to preserve and conserve wild animals in the reserves where the threat was real. In 1990, the Technical Committee of Wildlife and National Parks was established exclusively to ensure proper management of the protected areas, as part of the General Secretariat of Agricultural Reclamation and Land ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Nafud al-ʽUrayq Natural Reserve is a protected area in Saudi Arabia managed by the Saudi Wildlife Authority ...
Al-Khunfah Natural Reserve is located on the edge of Nafud desert covering an area of 19339.0 km². The reserve was listed as designated as a natural reserve in 1987. The reserve was listed as designated as a natural reserve in 1987.
Satellite view of Al-Dahna desert A caravan in Ad-Dahnā'. Ad-Dahna Desert is the central division of the Arabian Desert. [1] It is a corridor of sandy terrain forming a bow-like shape that connects an-Nafud desert in the north to Rub' al-Khali desert in the south.
"Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān al-ṣughrá" (The Lesser Life of Animals) is another work by al-Damiri, which is a shorter version of this more comprehensive "Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān al-kubrā." While the larger work covers a wide range of animals in great detail, the "Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān al-ṣughrá" focuses on a more concise collection of animals ...
Gilf Kebir Plateau lies in the heart of the eastern part of the vast Sahara Desert, and, thus, gets some of the most extreme climates on Earth.This is the driest place on the planet, not only because the area is totally rainless (the annual average rainfall amount hardly reaches 0.1 mm) but also because the geological aridity index/dryness ratio is over 200, which means that the solar energy ...
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