And no, we aren’t talking about places like the Burj Khalifa or Museum of the Future… The UAE is a stunning country, no doubt about that. We have the cosmopolitan cities of Dubai and Abu Dhabi, but we ...

Yet a trip to Dubai Municipality’s Ras Al Khor Wildlife Sanctuary shows how the birds are flourishing here, giving residents a rare chance to see these magnificent birds in their natural habitat.

Then Ras Al Khor Wildlife Sanctuary is your dream come true—an oasis of wings and wonder tucked right into the heart of Dubai. For Binoi Varkey, a 50-year-old architectural draughtsman from ...

Dubai: 30 July 2006: Results of an environmental study conducted by the Ramsar Convention, an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands, are expected to confirm ...

These avian guests are the star attractions in the UAE throughout the migratory seasons Hidden between the urban infrastructure of Dubai, lies the Ras Al Khor Wildlife Sanctuary. It is among the ...

the civic body is trying to get the sanctuary registered with the Ramsar Convention (involving the Unesco and named after a city in Iran where the convention was held). He noted that Ras Al Khor ...

Unaffected by the credit crunch, a wide variety of these feathery tourists make their winter home at the bird sanctuary in Ras Al Khor (Arabic for ‘head of the creek'). "We get more than 15,000 ...

One of the best places to witness this phenomenon in Dubai is the Ras Al Khor Sanctuary, where the flocks of flamingos find plenty of food - part of which is supplied by humans. “They are back ...

Ras Al Khor is a wetland sanctuary just a short flutter from the World Trade Centre and the centre of Dubai. It's a lagoon, with a fringe of wetlands, right in amongst the traffic, providing a ...