THE BEST

WILDLIFE SITES ON THE WEB

ARABIA

EZINES

https://www.arabianwildlife.com

At last – the on-line version of Arabian Wildlife magazine. This is the site to visit if you wish to keep up to date with news of Arabia’s natural world. Not only are all past issues of the magazine now on-line, but new interactive features are incorporated into the site with opportunities for you to add your own contributions. We believe this site will play a very positive role in furthering the cause of nature conservation throughout the region. We also hope it will be fun and exciting to use. Log on now and enter our exclusive on-line competition with prizes to be won.

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.