SOCIETIES

http://www.uaeu.ac.ae/external/enhg
Emirates Natural History Group - Al Ain - Newsletter

ORGANISATIONS

http://www.iucn.org/places/saudi-arabia_co.html
The IUCN Regional Office in Saudi Arabia provides technical assistance to the National Commission for Wildlife Conservation and Development.

http://www.ecssr.ac.ae
Emirates Strategic Studies Center, containing some reports on UAE natural history, mainly from texts written in 1995

http://www.narc.gov.ae
The National Avian Research Center's site in the UAE. The site contains a number of interesting features relating to the organisation's work, especially on the houbara bustard.

http://www.shjmuseum.gov.ae/ nat_his.html
Sharjah Natural History Museum

http://www.netlink.co.uk/users/ag/osme/osmehome.html
Ornithological Society of the Middle East. Includes its publication Sandgrouse.

GENERAL INTEREST

http://www.uaeinteract.com/nature
Comprehensive internet site on the UAE includes on-line version of the book: Natural Emirates, published by Trident Press in late 1996. Geology, Fossils, Habitats, Plants, Insects, Arachnids, Other Arthropods, Fish, Amphibians, Reptiles, Birds, Mammals, Marine life, Traditional aspects of wildlife etc. Site includes index and search engine. Also weekly updated bird sightings in UAE - the Twitchers Guide.

http://imedl.saudi.net/publications/
This on-line news source from Saudi Arabia contains a number of news releases concerning wildlife in Saudi Arabia.

PHOTOGRAPHIC

http://www.arabianimages.com
Arabian Images is a new web site that features high quality photographs on the Arabian Peninsula, offering skilled photographers a place to show their works. It also provides specialist articles relating to technical issues of photography in Arabia and includes a strong section on Arabian wildlife. The site should be of interest to general users as well as to more serious photographers, publishers, designers and advertising agents.

SCIENTIFIC

Web Sites of Universities in Arabia
Many of these are worth checking, both for news of research as well as details of forthcoming conferences and publications.

University of Bahrain
http://www.uob.bh

Arabian Gulf University
http://www.agu.edu.bh

Jordan University of Science & Technology
http://deneb.genie.uottawa.ca:80/nael/gamaa/just/

Kuwait University
http://www.kuniv.edu.kw

Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research
http://www.kisr.edu.kw

Health Science Center, Kuwait
http://hsccwww.kuniv.edu.kw/hsc/ hsc.html

Birzeit University, Palestine
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~alquds/birzeit.html

King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Saudi Arabia
http://www.kfshrc.edu.sa/

United Arab Emirates University
http://www.uaeu.ac.ae

Ajman University
http://www.ajman.ac.ae

Centre for Excellence in Research & training, UAE
http://www.hct.ac.ae/cert/ certhome.htm

Higher College of Technology, Abu Dhabi, UAE
http://www.hct.ac.ae

Islamic College, Dubai
http://www.lootah.sch.ae

GULFNET

is the Academic and Research Network for Arab Gulf countries and it is dedicated to universities and research institutions throughout Gulf countries. The following centres are connected to GulfNet

IBM Kuwait Scientific Centre, Kuwait

Institute of Public Administration, Riyadh, S.A.

Islamic Research and Training Inst. Jeddah, S.A.

King Abdul Aziz Center for Science & Technology, Riyadh, S.A.

King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah, S.A.

King Fahad University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, S.A.

King Faisal University, Hofuf, S.A.

King Saud University, Riyadh, S.A.

Kuwait Inst. for Scientific Research

Kuwait University, Kuwait

Umm-A1-Qura University, Makkah, S.A.

University of Bahrain, Sakhir

ZOOS

http://www.funguide.com/parks/ saudiara.html
Saudi Arabia Amusement, Theme & Water Parks.

http://www.shjmuseum.gov.ae/ nat_his.html
Sharjah's Desert Park and Natural History Museum

PUBLICATIONS

http://www.tridentpress.com
Trident Press' web site with information on its publications and links to other sites of interest to its clients.

http://www.nhbs.co.uk
Natural History Book Seller's Web Site
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +44 1803 865913
Fax: +44 1803 865280

Any readers who are not already familiar with NHBS would do well to take a look at this site. It provides a useful means of locating and ordering books on Arabian natural history.

INTERNATIONAL
PUBLICATIONS

http://www.auckland.ac.nz/lbr/newsci.htm
New Scientist Index

http://world.std.com/~rnn/scimag-w.html
Science Magazine Webpages

http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/library/psc/ magcol/sci.html
Online Magazine Collection - Science

http://www.nationalgeographic.com
National Geographic Magazine, Traveller Magazine and related publications.

http://www.nature.com
The scientific journal Nature in its electronic format. An impressive publication.

INTERNATIONAL
MUSEUMS

http://www.nhm.ac.uk
The Natural History Museum, London

INTERNATIONAL
ORGANISATIONS

http://www.unesco.org/whc/welcome.htm
World Heritage Committee of UNESCO.

http://cco.caltech.edu/%Esalmon/world. heritage.html
World Heritage Committee unofficial site: list of World Heritage sites.