The Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MoECC) has chalked out a plan to reclaim and rehabilitate 100 reserves in five years, local Arabic daily Arrayah reports.
Taleb Khaled al-Shahwani, director of the Protection and Wildlife Department at the ministry, told the daily that the national land rehabilitation project resulted in the monitoring of more than 1,700 reserves.
“Hundred of these will be rehabilitated in the next five years. The locations of all these reserves have been identified and geographical maps and databases are being prepared,” al-Shahwani said.
He pointed out that the ban on grazing resulted in increasing vegetation in the country and restored its normal status in many regions, adding that the relevant authorities last year monitored 129 violations of grazing and legal action was taken accordingly.
Al-Shahwani said the ministry was making great efforts to protect and preserve vegetation by tightening ongoing patrols, particularly during and after rainfall. “There is a ministerial decision by HE the Minister of Environment and Climate Change last year to form a committee to organise the winter camping season and consider all camping requests,” he said, adding that violation in the form of waste disposal would not be tolerated.
According to him, the department is implementing a project to monitor and protect marine turtle pools, as a part of which 92 baby turtles have been moved to Fuwairit Beach so far. He also explained that the national plan for the conservation of non-flying wild mammals involves an important proposal to prepare studies in order to protect these animals, particularly in the wake of urban expansion in the country.
“Hundred of these will be rehabilitated in the next five years. The locations of all these reserves have been identified and geographical maps and databases are being prepared,” al-Shahwani said.
He pointed out that the ban on grazing resulted in increasing vegetation in the country and restored its normal status in many regions, adding that the relevant authorities last year monitored 129 violations of grazing and legal action was taken accordingly.
Al-Shahwani said the ministry was making great efforts to protect and preserve vegetation by tightening ongoing patrols, particularly during and after rainfall. “There is a ministerial decision by HE the Minister of Environment and Climate Change last year to form a committee to organise the winter camping season and consider all camping requests,” he said, adding that violation in the form of waste disposal would not be tolerated.
According to him, the department is implementing a project to monitor and protect marine turtle pools, as a part of which 92 baby turtles have been moved to Fuwairit Beach so far. He also explained that the national plan for the conservation of non-flying wild mammals involves an important proposal to prepare studies in order to protect these animals, particularly in the wake of urban expansion in the country.