WWF has launched a campaign in the United Arab Emirates to protect the endangered ghaf tree, important to local communities as a source of food, fuel and medicine. Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates – ...

The ghaf is a native plant species of UAE, Oman and Saudi Arabia. This sturdy tree of the harsh desert environment is threatened by overgrazing, intensive lopping, and infrastructure development. WWF ...

A sample of the Ghaf tree. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has gifted African countries drought-tolerant trees to support environmental conservation as it marks 51 years of cooperation with the ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Twisting out of the hot sand of the Arabian Peninsula is one of nature's toughest trees. Known for its coarse bark and green canopy that provides rare shade from the ...

Collaborates with Sesam Immigration's "Green Start" Initiative to drive UAE's sustainability goals and contribute to UN’s One Trillion Tree campaign DUBAI, UNITED ...

Expo 2020 Dubai’s mascots – Emirati siblings Rashid and Latifa, Salama the wise Ghaf tree, and robots Opti, Alif and Terra – were on Thursday unveiled in the presence of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al ...

ENOC Group has announced that it expects to complete work on its “service station of the future” at the Expo 2020 Dubai site in June. The Ghaf-tree inspired service station – the region’s first LEED ...